It’s worth mentioning right in the start that children need to be active and they should take more interest in playing sports. The major
benefit of children’s physical activity is that it keeps them active, healthy
and capable to solve any problem with enhanced intelligence.
Why it is important for the children to engage in play and
sports activities?
- Apart from the major benefits mentioned above, physical activity can help children to grow their social circle. During play, they learn about sharing, cooperating and regulating extreme emotions like anger.
- Physical fitness is one thing and physical skill level is another. However, both can be improved by doing physical activities. Physical skills basically involve eye-hand coordination, running and ball skills.
- Children play can be beneficial for the families too. Parents also get to exercise when they encourage their kids to exercise.
- When a kid has stress, he/she gets sleep problems, problems in concentration and difficulty in making friends. Playing can help such kids in the ideal way as physical activity is a big stress reliever.
- Active children carry their habit to remain active when they enter into adulthood.
Healthy exercise
Suitability of exercise to the human body is extremely
important. Over-exercising can be dangerous as it can make the person doing it
more prone to injuries and the health problems. Here, the matter is about
suitability of exercise to the body. Some people can take benefits from hard
workouts because of their body types while some people don’t. So, identifying
the body types and the exercises beneficial for such bodies is very important
before you make a plan about encouraging your kid to engage in physical
activity.
How to keep children
active
Children can be kept active with the following
considerations.
- There should be enjoyment in the physical activity for children.
- If you want your children to be active, you will need to place yourself as role model. Hence, you will have to engage in physical activity in order to convince your kids about the benefits of it.
- While you have worked hard to keep your younger kids active, it’s important that you encourage them to continue to be active when they grow up.
- Find local playgrounds where you can take your kids to play.
- Your children might like playing the water games but you will have to make sure that you supervise them while they play.
- Gymnastics, callisthenics or martial arts are quite interesting activities which the kids love but you need to make sure that they are doing it at non-competitive levels.
Safety
Safety is the huge factor which comes into play when you
consider taking your child outside to play. Safety basically starts with the
tools and equipment which help children to stay away from the injuries. Then
you have to make sure that your children are warming up well before starting
the main exercise. You also have to ensure that you are there to immediately
stop kid from exercise when he feels sick or tired.
