Sports plays a big role in building self-esteem

Enhancing the physical well-being and emotional growth of the child is probably the best gift you can endow your child with. Like they always say 'All work and no play will make Jack a dull boy'. This age-old adage rightly points out the significance of the contribution of sports during a child's growing up years. Because, sport isn't about physical play, it is about life skills orientation.

Physical education is a must in schools. Sport activities and educational growth go hand in hand. Through sports, kids learn to master the trick of fair play and cope with competition. Today children are more active on the digital front, thus ignoring the importance of participation in sports and outdoor activities. Recent studies have found children these days find playing a game of football or badminton absolutely unexciting and monotonous rather prefer to spend time watching the idiot box or surfing on the Internet.

Ensuring your child's active participation in sports will help greatly in stress reduction, making them active, strengthening bones and muscles, imbibing the value of team spirit, learning the importance of playing a fair game and being co-operative, thus giving a boost to their self-esteem and confidence. If given proper guidance every child can outshine in one sport or the other, parents just need to discover the sport suitable for the child as per the kid's interest levels. This will definitely yield great results in the long run.

Most parents contemplate whether they should be investing their child's valuable time and energy in extra-curricular activities or not. An important thing for them to remember is - encouraging you child to actively participate in sports will help them feel appreciated for their distinctive skill, thus helping them excel in their lives. Playing sports lends kids the opportunity to cultivate positive personality traits. Leaf through the below mentioned rewards which expose the true essence of sports.

Healthy beginnings: It has been found that children who are actively involved in sports tend to be less stressed out than kids who have never taken part in any kind of physical activity. Playing sports brings about an increase in cardio-vascular fitness and also makes their bones, muscles and ligaments robust and strong, thus lending a good sleep and balanced life.

Socially active: Games help kids socialise and make new friends. Outdoor games like cricket and football help them socialise. Outdoors: Sports gives kids tremendous exposure to the outside world. Kids who prefer staying within the confines of their homes, watching the television or playing games on the computer get to know what the outside world is like through the medium of sports. Obesity reduction: Obesity is the major cause affecting the child's well-being. This situation majorly occurs due to the lack of exercise and unhealthy diet regimes. Engaging your child in outdoor games will keep them active and help to reduce the excess fat build-up in the body.

Physical activity such as sports helps them burn out excessive fat, making them fit.

Building self-confidence: Sports is a good platform to lift up your child's self-esteem and enhance their self-confidence. They learn the importance of winning and losing, teamwork, leadership skills and building of goals.

Sports is a boundless source of motivation and contentment. The main motto of outdoor activities is to keep the child's physique in the best of health and keeping the mind strong and pure. And let's not forget, unless our kids go out and play, how else will we find those gems that make our country proud? Every kid need not turn out to be a Ronaldo or a Messi, and parents should understand that sport inclusion in a school curriculum is an introduction, down time, time to get the much needed lung capacity, fitness and not necessarily creating champions. What a day it will be to have sports management class as one of the electives in schools which involves more play than theory!