It is highly recommended that children do sports from an early age since this helps them to socialize with other children and, in addition, favors their health and physical activity thus avoiding a sedentary lifestyle o vascular problems and / or diseases such as Childhood obesity.
Sport has to go according to the tastes and needs of the little one since this must be motivated to carry out physical activity. This will also depend on the environment around you, since you will feel much more comfortable if some of your classmates are in the sport you choose.
What are the benefits of playing sports from a young age?
One of the main factors of sport in children from a very young age is avoid sedentary lifestyle. We live in a society where technology has won out when leaving home and being able to enjoy a day playing ball in the street, breathing fresh air and making friends with the other boys and girls in the park.
Nowadays children prefer to lie down or at the table at their desk playing the tablet, the game console or surfing the Internet. Therefore, it is necessary to empower the children to establish a series of Healthy Habits so that they have a healthy and better life.
Children's sport is advisable to do a few 2 times a week to intersperse it with trips to the park of about an hour. This will implant daily routines throughout its development, favoring discipline.
In addition, not only the sport will favor your health, you must wear a healthy nutrition according to the effort caused by physical activity. Therefore, you should always maintain a balanced diet and always be hydrated since heat stroke in children is very dangerous.
On the other hand, the influence of Parents they will make children play sports or not. Children learn from what they see and if their parents do not lead a healthy life in which physical exercise is one of their strengths, the child will not be motivated to do it. For this reason, you have to share outings as a family to do a sport in common, be it hiking, going for a bike ride in the mountains, running for half an hour around the city or town, etc.
What activity or sport should you choose?
In preschool age there are many sports that boys and girls can do in a group. In this way, children will learn to play with others and enhance their social relationships. Although we must bear in mind that we must teach them to encourage camaraderie rather than competitiveness, that they see physical activity as fun and not as an obligation.
The sport to choose will depend on the tastes, personality and interests own of the boy or the girl. It is very common for boys to choose soccer and girls to dance or dance, so you have to open a wide range of possibilities without restricting sex at any time.
Tips for physical activity and children's play
- Children should intervene at a minimum an hour daily in physical activities.
- Daily physical activity should be, for the most part, aerobic. It would be advisable to incorporate at least 3 times a week, activities that strengthen, in particular, muscles and bones.
- The child does it 5-6 years what they have to do is play. Physical activity at this stage has to stimulate your whole body, strengthen your locomotor system and achieve greater control, power and coordination: run, jump, throw and collect balls, etc. Competitions should be avoided.
- La specialization too early in a sport is counterproductive.
- Whether practice an individual sportIt is highly recommended to complete it with a team sport, as it enriches the child more.
- Avoid sedentary lifestyle such as excessive sport overload.
- You have to follow a medical monitoring of the boy or girl, especially if he competes.
- The game is essential to reach the full physical, mental and emotional development of the little ones.
- Sport through games is much more than just entertainment, since it must be used as therapeutic means to release emotional tensions.
- For the little ones the presence of a parent or educator that is also a companion / a of games.
- However, the child must know how to play alone and especially with other children. Encourage group games whenever possible, at home or outside (parks, leisure clubs, excursions, etc.).
- Prevent the child from getting involved in a single game or toy. Certain games can addictive, like video games.
- You have to introduce them diversity of games, both indoors and outdoors, and alternate movement games and reasoning games.