Sports for the little ones: the 10 benefits of physical activity for children

It is important that good habits are taught by parents from an early age: a healthy and balanced diet and the practice of at least one sport are two important good habits that, if carried out from an early age, can only bring benefits in the present and in the future. .
Objective: to keep the child away from a sedentary lifestyle, which causes many ills as they age, including obesity, heart problems and diabetes.

Sport is not only healthy for the body: it teaches certain values ​​and behavioral norms that will be very useful in working and social life.

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So here are the 10 benefits of sport since childhood:

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1. It allows to develop social competences

Football, basketball, tennis, karate, athletics ... most sports are practiced in groups: they presuppose, in order to be really fun, full interaction with others.
This creates team, camaraderie, team spirit.
Sports interaction, which is both physical and mental, is also an excellent antidote to shyness, which in the first years of life is absolutely normal, later it can become an obstacle to self-realization.

2. Increase the desire to always overcome yourself with new challenges

Sport helps the child to develop positive feelings of willingness to always overcome new goals and to overcome oneself: the child begins to conceive the fact that it is necessary to work and commit to achieving set goals.

3. The importance of the rules

Any sport is such because it has very precise and codified rules: practicing a sport therefore means following the rules. As in the childhood game.
Authentic fun comes only from the respect, of all participants, of these rules: sport is therefore also in this sense synonymous with equality, as well as with responsibility.

4. Teach the rules of good hygiene

Especially useful for the little ones, who will learn that personal hygiene is necessary after exercise. A value and a norm of behavior, for oneself and for others, which perhaps being in front of the TV is less easily learned.

5. It can help them have good posture, or correct it

Sports such as swimming are particularly suitable for correcting poor posture or preventing possible future problems, including the common scoliosis.

6. Improve agility and stamina

Sport helps to develop motor skills and coordination, improves body agility and flexibility, strengthens reflexes, speed and resistance to physical efforts.

7. Prevents obesity

With sport you escape the dangers of a sedentary life. Obesity, which is a real and particularly widespread disease, is easily averted through daily physical activity from an early age. At least 30 minutes of exercise per day is recommended.

8. Encourage outdoor activities

With new technologies, children tend to practice sedentary and passive indoor activities: watching TV, playing video games, surfing the Internet ... Sport is able to stimulate outdoor activities, interaction with friends and socialization.

9. Keeps cholesterol at optimal levels

Lower triglycerides, raise the level of good cholesterol!
It also keeps blood pressure at optimal levels.

10. Promotes sleep

After the sporting activity, the child will feel the need for rest more naturally: which is good for him and for his mother!
With sport, insomnia is avoided, as well as any whim before going to bed: your child will never have wanted so much sleep 8 hours of sound sleep!

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