Posted on Wednesday, 17th February 2010 by Ryan Sheen
Every child should grow up physically active. Not only does such activity promote good health, but it leaves our kids happier for it.
Endorphins are the key to happiness and exercise is the key to releasing those endorphins.
As a result, sports are a terrific physical outlet for children. They should get involved in different sports as early as they can growing up. While their favorites will be ultimately up to them, I’d like to suggest that you start out with soccer as early as you can.
Once they get into playing the sport, most kids end up loving soccer and it has a number of positives aspects to it which, I will go into further detail about in this article.
First of all, the sport will actively build hand eye coordination in your child. Good balance skills will be built as your children dribble the ball and they’ll learn how to depend on their legs to maneuver them quickly in different directions. Since no hands are allowed to be used, this builds an even stronger sense of balance.
Soccer often involves quite a bit of running and general moving about the field and as a result will help to build muscles strength within your child’s legs as well as stomach and back. Not just the running but the kicking and dribbling all help to use muscles that wouldn’t normally get much use from walking alone.
Playing soccer is all about the team and as your child learns to play well they will also be learning useful social skills that will be in constant use throughout their lives. Learning to work in a team and build on team spirit will contribute massively to building their character.
Having said that, I would definitely recommend choosing soccer as a sport for your young ones if you’re in the process of deciding. There’s a very good chance that you’ll be glad you did.
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