Top 10 Reasons a child should be on a sports team
June 18, 2008 — Alenka | Posted in To Be Physically Superb. 3 Comments »
- No matter how shy your kid is, he will always be welcomed and will always find good friends in a sport team.
- Participating in sports will allow the child to discover previously unknown reserves of his or her body. When your whole team is behind the child, sky is the limit to what he or she can do.
- By exercising regularly the child will get used to staying fit. Flab? What flab!
- Child’s self esteem will get a huge boost. If the kid tries again and again, and finally succeeds, he becomes aware of what he is capable of and this feeling will stay with her for life!
- The kids will learn things about themselves that no one may tell them. The better the child knows herself, the better chance he has to succeed in life.
- Life is not always fair. The child needs to learn how to loose, make conclusions and come back victorious the next day.
- Learning to be a team player. Literary. Everyone’s life will be surrounded by many, many people as the sooner our children can figure out how to deal with them the better chance they will have to succeed.
- Sports and exercise are essential part of one’s good health, including children
- “A sound mind in a sound body”
- In almost all cases, PARENTS are the ones who get all excited and thrilled watching their little Jill or Johnny succeed in sportSo whether it is skating, skiing, football, karate, baseball, soccer or swimming… Get some outdoor sports toys and/or sign up for tryouts and get rolling!
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February 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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June 2, 2010 at 4:05 am
From a developmental point of view, sports are also very good for children, especially young children. Sports offer a huge amount of stimulation in the three basic perception areas: proprioceptive (feeling your own body), vestibular (sense of balance) and tactile (sensing qualities like temperature and texture).
Often, these stimuli are quite strong in sports, for example you feel your body really well when you run and jump. This lot of stimulation helps kids to learn about their body and how to use it, and to develop a good balance.
This is even more important if you consider that many higher skills like reading or concentration are based on proper integration of these three basic perceptions. If something goes wrong in early childhood, many of these kids face difficulties in school.
So, getting your kids into a sports team at a young age will certainly help his development. And in a team, sports are simply more fun than doing it alone.
June 3, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Couldn’t agree more!! I’ve also read someplace, that for the little kids their physical development improves the development of the brain. It sound logical, since more physical activity rushes the blood through the body, improves internal organs and gets more oxygen to the brain… which couldn’t be a bad thing!