{"id":4946,"date":"2024-07-17T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.educationk.com\/participating-in-sports-since-childhood-helps-us-grow-into-healthy-and-balanced-adults\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:25:10","slug":"participating-in-sports-since-childhood-helps-us-grow-into-healthy-and-balanced-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educationk.com\/en\/participating-in-sports-since-childhood-helps-us-grow-into-healthy-and-balanced-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Participating in sports since childhood helps us grow into healthy and balanced adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sports activity is conducive to psychophysical balance<\/strong>, especially if practiced since childhood, and offers a wide range of benefits also for emotional and social development, which will continue into adulthood. In short, what the ancients affirmed through the mantra mens sana in corpore sano<\/em><\/strong>, which comes to mind every time we talk about sports and, hopefully, we see our children lying on the sofa at home watching TV or playing with their smartphone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The physical benefits of sports practiced since childhood<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The World Health Organization recommends, for children and adolescents between 5 and 17<\/strong> years old, at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day<\/strong> to obtain benefits and stay healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regular physical exercise stimulates children’s growth<\/a>, improving their muscle development, strength and physical endurance. Those who practice sports from an early age have greater motor skills<\/strong>, such as hand-eye coordination, balance and general coordination. Furthermore, physical activity promotes cardiovascular and respiratory health<\/strong>, positively influencing blood circulation; lung capacity is thus increased and the risk of future heart disease is consequently reduced. These are benefits that over 22.5% of young people in Italy do not enjoy, due to an inadequate level of physical activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the benefits of sport are not limited only to physical well-being<\/strong>, which also includes controlling body weight, but participation in an athletic activity also has an impact on the emotional development of children<\/strong>, providing them with important skills and values that will accompany them into adulthood. In this aspect, schools often come to our aid, when they offer engaging extracurricular courses<\/strong> to propose to children, as in the case of Kinder – the first international school in Bologna<\/strong><\/a>, where sport is not just free time, not even just a space to let off steam, but discipline, teamwork, communication, strategy, and a challenge with oneself.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t

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