As it turns out, the opposite is true.
American scientists have done a survey:
They spent 45 years tracking and studying 5,000 "gifted children" who performed well in their studies. It was found that more than 90% of the "gifted children" did not achieve much in their later growth.
On the contrary, people who have average academic performance, but often participate in various activities, have experienced setbacks and like sports are more likely to succeed in the future. This is because children will learn tolerance, team responsibility and face failures and setbacks from sports. These qualities are the necessary conditions for success, and they are also the reasons why Europe and America pursue elite education.
1. can improve physical fitness, promote physical development and increase height.
Sports can enhance children's physical qualities such as speed, strength, endurance, flexibility, sensitivity, response and coordination. Physical exercise can improve children's blood circulation, make muscles and bones get more nutrition, and exercise has a mechanical stimulation effect on muscles and bones. Therefore, it can accelerate the growth of children's muscles and bones, make children's bodies strong and accelerate their height growth.
2. Exercise can improve children's cardiopulmonary function.
During exercise, children's muscle activities need to consume a lot of oxygen and discharge more carbon dioxide, thus accelerating blood circulation and strengthening metabolism. Therefore, insisting on exercise will make children's myocardial development and myocardial contractility strengthen; During exercise, the respiratory organs need to work twice as hard. Regular participation in sports will expand the range of children's chest activities, increase vital capacity, increase lung ventilation and enhance the function of respiratory organs.
3. Exercise can improve children's digestion and absorption ability.
After children participate in sports activities, the nutrients required by various organs of the body increase, forcing gastrointestinal peristalsis to increase, gastrointestinal digestion ability to enhance, appetite to increase, and nutrient absorption to be more adequate, so that children can develop better.
4. Exercise can promote the development of nervous system.
During exercise, the nervous system is responsible for coordinating all parts of the body. This process depends on the connection of brain neurons. At the same time of exercise, the nervous system itself is undergoing exercise and improvement, and neurons will continue to increase. Long-term exercise is more abundant than non-exercise children's neural network, and the more appropriate the connection of neurons, the smarter people are.
5. Exercise can improve children's immunity and prevent diseases.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham found that skeletal muscle can regulate immunity. During exercise, skeletal muscle can secrete cytokines, such as IL-6. Studies have shown that IL-6 secreted by skeletal muscle after exercise has anti-inflammatory effect and can stimulate adrenal gland to secrete the second anti-inflammatory signal-cortin.
In addition to IL-6, skeletal muscle also secretes cytokines such as IL-7 and IL- 15 to stimulate the activation and proliferation of immune cells, increase the number of NK cells, increase the secretion of cytokines, polarize macrophages and inhibit lipogenesis. Not only that, regular exercise can also reduce virus infection and increase the diversity of intestinal flora.
6. Exercise can enhance children's self-confidence and overcome inferiority.
Inferiority is a kind of negative psychology caused by doubting one's own ability and value and feeling inferior to others. Inferiority is a psychological barrier. Children often take part in physical exercise, and under the guidance of coaches, they will know themselves again. When children play sports, they are never familiar with it, overcome difficulties, make progress bit by bit, and then become handy, see their own advantages, face up to their own shortcomings, overcome their inferiority, enhance their self-confidence, and achieve mental health and balance.
7. Exercise makes children psychologically healthier.
Today's children have to bear greater pressure from childhood than before, such as pressure from school, pressure from classmates and pressure from parents. The child's ability to resist pressure is weak. When these pressures cannot be released, there will be psychological problems of one kind or another.
A study abroad shows that exercise is very important to help children cope with stress. When children are in a stressful environment, researchers found that sedentary children have higher levels of stress hormone (cortisol), while active children have little or no increase in stress hormone levels. This study reveals the significance of exercise to children's mental health, which can help children to buffer their daily stress. Exercise can promote the secretion of endorphins, help to improve negative emotions and relieve tense muscles and emotions.
8. Sports can shape a child's character.
Physical exercise is not only physical exercise, but also the exercise of will and character. Exercise can overcome some bad behaviors and make children cheerful, lively and optimistic. Children will feel very happy when they are chasing each other, kicking the ball into each other's goal and playing in the swimming pool. This good mood contributes to health.
Exercise can also cultivate children's willpower. It takes a lot of effort for children to do some movements, and sometimes they have to overcome all kinds of difficulties. This is a good exercise of will. Proper exercise and more contact with peers can change children's withdrawn, melancholy and unsociable personality characteristics, which is beneficial to their physical and mental development.
9. Exercise can cultivate social skills.
Nowadays, many families have only one child and spend most of their extracurricular time with adults. In addition, they attend various extracurricular cram schools and have little time to communicate with strangers of the same age. Therefore, children's communication skills are generally poor. In the process of group sports, their communication skills can be exercised to a certain extent. In sports, we should constantly communicate and cooperate with our teammates, some are acquaintances and some are strangers. They should complete sports tasks together, which can exercise children's ability to communicate with others. The scenes in sports are often consistent with the experiences in life, so the social skills of children who often participate in sports are also improving.
10. Exercise can enhance children's adaptability.
Children have been in the student stage, growing up under the care of teachers and parents for a long time, and their adaptability to life is poor. Taking part in sports is a good opportunity to get in touch with the outside world. Different groups and places take part in physical exercise, so they need to adapt to the new environment and new objects frequently. In addition, in the process of sports, the situation on the field is ever-changing and needs to be adapted in a short time, which is conducive to improving children's adaptability.
Bai said: "Exercise is far more important than you think. Sports is more complicated and great than we thought. Not just a China football, or a China basketball, or letting children run 800 meters to exercise, no! It tempered a nation's will and changed a nation's genes. The focus of sports is not on the body, but on education. " "Young people are strong and China is strong". The state and education departments have begun to attach importance to sports. Our parents and educators also need to change their ideas and attach importance to physical education, so that children can exercise scientifically, regularly and persistently, so that their physical and mental health can grow in an all-round way!
(Note: Although children's sports have many benefits, they must be carried out scientifically and not blindly. I wrote it in my last article. )
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