Why Sports are Important for Kids

It is commonly observed that children are happiest with a bat, ball, football or table tennis racket in their hands; irrespective of the fact whether it is a competition in the stadium or on the dusty streets. It’s about the joy, excitement and fun associated with sports.

Don’t you smile while recollecting the memories of your childhood sports time with friends and peers? Most of us do.

What’s more, apart from promising fun times with friends, sports play an important role in building a child’s personality, character and even academics. Sports are therefore an essential for kids.

Benefits of Sports for Kids

Here are the advantages of including sports in school or in a child’s daily schedule.

• Sports teach kids’ moral principles: Sports teaches kids’ the values associated with fair play.
• Learning team work: Through sports, kids’ learn the importance of team work. They realize the value of working as a team and learn that individual contribution can be enhanced with the support of other members and not individually.
• Teaches Friendship with all: Sports teaches children to develop healthy and strong relationships with people they meet on the field. These people, despite being new to them usually turn into lifetime friends with a strong bonding. What’s more, they learn to make friends with and respect people from different places and various social status and backgrounds.
• Sports bring together people from varied cultures, color and races together: Athletes learn to respect people for their work and not for their race, caste religion or nationality.
• Advantages of Social Interaction: Social interaction skills are as important in a person’s life as much as academic and other skills. As sports provide kids’ with the opportunity to interact with various kinds of people, they develop social interaction skills.
• Benefits of Competitive Sports: Winning medals is mostly the objective behind the participation in sports. However, the zeal to win keeps kids going and motivates them to work hard and improve. What’s more, losing also teaches them the valuable lesson of accepting defeat and working harder to win.
• Lessons of Life: Through sports, children learn important lessons of life like respecting authority, team work, colleagues and rules.
• Self-Esteem: Winning

medals, trophies and awards boosts children’s morale and self-esteem.

• Fun and Excitement: Sports is fun, relaxing and exciting.
• Physical Development: Sports develops kids’ physically and mentally. Kids who play sports are mostly a step ahead in their academics too.
• Stress Relief: Playing sports is proven to be a stress buster. What’s more, it brings about a feeling of physical and mental well-being.

It is most likely that parents would push their kids’ into sports; considering the aforementioned benefits. However, pressurizing children is not right. Odds are high that they begin to dislike sports. A better way is to allow the child to get used to sport initially, understand the kind of sport he likes and then push him forward into it. Moreover, it is important to steer away from unrealistic expectations and set high goals. Instead, let the child enjoy his sports’ time and benefit from the same.

In this article, the author has shared his knowledge about trophies, medals, and plaques and the kinds of materials that are used for making the awards.