How Baseball Promote Physical, Emotional and Social Development
Male school-age children are innately very active and curious. This is natural for their age and should be encouraged. Most of them would take interest in sports and parents should be supportive. Expectedly, you would see them hanging out with their peers outside the house or asking to stay a bit longer in school to play a basketball or baseball game. These types of sports provide outlet for their overflowing energy.
Why should parents support this? First and foremost, school-age children are starting to test their skills – a lot of their skills in fact. First of which is their communication and interpersonal skills. You should be happy if your child starts to ask if he could go to his friends' house to play baseball or do some pitching drills. This is not the stage to play a stage-parent. Notice how embarrass or awkward he feels when you kiss him goodbye?
According to Erik Erikson's stages of Psychosocial development, the school age child, aging seven to eleven years old is tasked whether to develop initiative or inferiority. Initiative is a personal characteristic that involves starting a specific job or project without being asked, without outside influence. This develops during this age and is facilitated by taking pride in your child's accomplishment. If he feels that you are proud of his accomplishments, like praising him when he jubilantly shows you that he knows the pitching mechanics for baseball, he will continually do things which he believes will please you.
One more reason why every parents should be supportive of their child's sports activities is that this is a clear indication of a good physical, emotional and social development.
An active child who participates in sports activities is definitely an indication of sound physical development. This is the age where your child has more control over his motor skills, so much so that he is all vent on testing it – which is why, this is also the age where accidents from contact sports happen. Your child is exploring his abilities and this is a good opportunity for physical development. For instance, during a baseball game, it takes a strong arm to throw a good pitch. Only a healthy child can throw a good pitch.
Furthermore, a sound body is a sound mind – for him to learn how to throw a baseball pitch takes an amount of comprehension. Be thankful dear parent, because at this day and age of computer games addiction, there is a decrease in the number of young children taking an interest in field sport hobbies.
What does a parent feels when he or she sees his or her child with his friends, laughing, enjoying their times together? One should be proud. It takes an emotionally healthy child to enjoy his peers at this early stage. If he is able to gain friends, who have so much in common with him, as well as enjoy being with them, rest assured that you have provided enough attention and care for the child for him to learn how to laugh and gain friends – and this is also one clear manifestation of a good social upbringing.
Why should parents support this? First and foremost, school-age children are starting to test their skills – a lot of their skills in fact. First of which is their communication and interpersonal skills. You should be happy if your child starts to ask if he could go to his friends' house to play baseball or do some pitching drills. This is not the stage to play a stage-parent. Notice how embarrass or awkward he feels when you kiss him goodbye?
According to Erik Erikson's stages of Psychosocial development, the school age child, aging seven to eleven years old is tasked whether to develop initiative or inferiority. Initiative is a personal characteristic that involves starting a specific job or project without being asked, without outside influence. This develops during this age and is facilitated by taking pride in your child's accomplishment. If he feels that you are proud of his accomplishments, like praising him when he jubilantly shows you that he knows the pitching mechanics for baseball, he will continually do things which he believes will please you.
One more reason why every parents should be supportive of their child's sports activities is that this is a clear indication of a good physical, emotional and social development.
An active child who participates in sports activities is definitely an indication of sound physical development. This is the age where your child has more control over his motor skills, so much so that he is all vent on testing it – which is why, this is also the age where accidents from contact sports happen. Your child is exploring his abilities and this is a good opportunity for physical development. For instance, during a baseball game, it takes a strong arm to throw a good pitch. Only a healthy child can throw a good pitch.
Furthermore, a sound body is a sound mind – for him to learn how to throw a baseball pitch takes an amount of comprehension. Be thankful dear parent, because at this day and age of computer games addiction, there is a decrease in the number of young children taking an interest in field sport hobbies.
What does a parent feels when he or she sees his or her child with his friends, laughing, enjoying their times together? One should be proud. It takes an emotionally healthy child to enjoy his peers at this early stage. If he is able to gain friends, who have so much in common with him, as well as enjoy being with them, rest assured that you have provided enough attention and care for the child for him to learn how to laugh and gain friends – and this is also one clear manifestation of a good social upbringing.
