Children and Sports

[Motiv Girl]

7 Good Reasons to
Get Your Child Involved with Sports


Making exercise a part of your child's life teaches your child the importance of fitness. Children need physical activity every day and participation in sports helps fill this need.Getting your child involved with sports helps them make exercise a part of their lifestyle and increases their chance of a being a healthier adult.

Promote Self Esteem

When a child realizes that they are getting better and better at their sport, they can't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. Choosing a sport your child can grow and improve in gives your child an opportunity to build self-esteem. Together, with positive reinforcement from you their parent, they will gain confidence and have a more positive view of themselves.

Learn Goal Setting

Goal setting and success go hand in hand. Participation in sports gives your child a fun, practical way to learn about goal setting. They'll see, experience, and learn about how goal setting works. If your child's coach doesn't cover goal setting, that's okay! You as a parent can sit down with your child and set goals. By assisting your child in developing this skill, you give them a better chance at succeeding in life.

Learn and Experience Teamwork

Sports teach children about teamwork and about how their actions affect other people. If they can't learn to work together with teammates while playing a sport they enjoy, how will they be able to work with co-workers they may or may not like while performing a job they may or may not enjoy? This is an important lesson to learn. Encourage your child to be a team player and, as a sports parent, keep tabs on whether or not your words and actions promote this trait in your child.

Develop Time Management Skills

Teach your child that taking care of responsibilities, such as school work and cleaning up after themselves, comes first. This gives them their first taste of prioritization. Next, help your child formulate a plan which enables them to efficiently handle their responsibilities while still leaving time for sports practices and competitions.

Learn About Dealing with Adversity

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone has problems. How well you handle these mistakes and problems directly affects happiness and quality of life. Many people "get in a slump" and can't get out of it. Others continue making the same mistakes over and over again. In sports, we always try to minimize errors, but we're human. Mistakes happen. Even professional athletes make bad choices and make bad plays, but it's not the mistake that counts. What you do from that point forward carries much more significance. If your child learns how to deal with adversity, errors, and challenges in sports, chances are, they'll be able to translate that skill to real life and effectively minimize mistakes and/or bad decisions as well as competently recover from setbacks.

Have Fun!

Positive experiences play an essential role in raising a happy, healthy human being. Sports provide numerous opportunities for positive experiences both for your child as an individual, and for your family as a whole. "Sports parents" are blessed with the chance to watch their child have fun while learning and developing as an athlete and as a human being.

[apkarwowski]

Sorry for such short notice..lol
Imlay City Christian School Presents 9 Pin No Tap Bowling Fundraiser
Everyone welcome
Also a silent auction
Saturday January 23, 2010 from 11:30 am to 4 pm
Almont Hideaway Lanes
4550 Howland road, Almont Michigan
$20.00 per adult
$15.00 for children 6th grade or younger
Teams of 5 recommended but not required
All proceeds to fund the Imlay City Christian School
Please Write me with any questions or to make a donation.
I am just one parent trying to help!!
Please tell your friends...
apkarwowski@yahoo.com
Thanks and God Bless.
Alan