5 reasons sports are crucial for school kids

4. Emotional development-

A playful child is a happy child. There is something to be said in favour of just letting a kid loose in a playground, but the structured activities of specific sports lets them experience goal-seeking behaviour which is rewarded through incentives and recognition. The child is always made to feel a sense of progress and that gets him/her emotionally invested in the program itself. One of the most important things kids can be taught is rewarding goal seeking behaviour. Kids need to be taught that you only get something when you put the effort in. Even a kid emotionally vested in an activity can end up taking it loosely if he/she does not inculcate discipline. But the latter only comes after the former. Pull factors are more effective than push factors when it comes to motivating kids. Emotional quotient measures your ability to postpone some source of immediate pleasure for greater

5. Nurturing talent-

The commissioner of the NBA, David Stern, was in India recently. He met one of our country’s best prospects, 19-year-old Amritpal Singh, Jr. While being in awe of the youngster’s skills, he lamented that “He is this good when he has only been playing for three years. Imagine if he had picked up the game earlier in life.” A lot of kids don’t realize their innate talent until they are in their teens. A kid taking up sports at a young age under a watchful eye enables the teacher to spot the latent talent in the kids and encourage them towards fulfilling their full potential. Having kids take up sports at a young age improves the chances of them bringing laurels to the country. Schools are the largest and most organized groups of youngsters in the country. They can play an invaluable role in talent spotting and nurturing.

There are many good reasons that some school franchises have made it compulsory to offer a certain number of sports disciplines to the kids. And the above five reasons are just to name a few. If you are a sportsperson, you will know how crucial sports can be for the development of kids.