Sports
Playing sports as a kid leads to several important benefits such as improved physical health, enhanced social skills, and better mental health. Sports comes with many added benefits that extend well beyond childhood and into one’s adulthood.
Team Work
Cooperation is a skill that your child will need throughout their entire lifetime. A child who previously played sports will have developed pertinent skills by working with their teammates to achieve a common goal as well as how to support others while working towards their own personal goals.
Healthy Competition
When your child participates in sports, it is likely that they will not win every competition or always be the best athlete on the team or even on the field. By experiencing loss and being exposed to other high level athletes who may be better than them, your child will develop a healthy attitude towards competition.
Social Skills
By playing sports, your child will meet a wide variety of personality types that they may not have otherwise encountered. Kids who play sports will learn how to get along with other personalities and adapt to others in order to resolve conflict, achieve common goals, and communicate effectively.
Self-Confidence
A child who participates in sports will set goals for themselves and experience a sense of reward and accomplishment when achieving their goals. This confidence also stays with them into adulthood as they set goals in the workplace or in their personal lives.
Responsibility
Participating in sports teaches kids the value of responsibility. This translate beyond their childhood and into the workplace when their performance impacts their coworkers.
Leadership
Playing sports provides kids with the opportunity to take on leadership roles. Kids learn quick thinking, delegating, and respectful interaction with their peers, coaches, and officials through sports.
Healthy Habits
Kids who play sports understand proper nutrition, rest, and other positive health habits that impact their athletic performance. Individuals who played sports as children may also be less likely to abuse drugs or alcohol as adults because, as kids, they didn’t want to impact their athletic performance by using harmful substances.
Art and Crafts
Arts and crafts activities can enhance the children's dexterity and agility through;
Swimming
Swimming is lots of fun and children especially love getting in the water to enjoying themselves.
But it is not just fun, swimming also provides lots of health benefits which can help to keep children healthy and happy at the same time:
- Swimming keeps the heart and lungs healthy, improves strength and flexibility, increases stamina and even improves balance and posture.
- Swimming provides challenges and rewards accomplishments, which helps children to become self-confident and believe in their abilities.
Self-Expression and Managing Feelings
As with all creative pursuits, arts and crafts activities are a fantastic creative outlet. Through art, children express themselves freely.