by Department of Sport and Recreation / Western Australia
Physical benefits:
- Improve fitness, strength, flexibility and coordination
- Improve general health and helps weight management
- Develop a wide range of motor skills
- Establish healthy behaviors that young people will carry throughout their lives
Social benefits:
- Develop communication and interpersonal skills
- Develop leadership and cooperation skills
- Create lasting friendships
- Increase interest in accepting responsibility
- How to deal with winning and losing
- Provide a vehicle for responsible risk taking
Personal benefits:
- Enjoyment factor - a biggy!
- Improve self-esteem and confidence
- Improve ability to concentrate: facilitating better performance at school
- Learn self-discipline, commitment and responsibility
- Learn organizational skills and how to share
- Learn how to deal with pressures and stress
- Encourage health related behaviors i.e. better eating habits, less likely to smoke
What's in it for Parents?
It not just your kids who will benefit from playing sport
- You get to be a bigger part of their lives by sharing more of their experiences
- Appreciate that your children are having fun, being active and healthy
- Healthy children means a reduction in medical costs
- You know where your children are, that they are being supervised and having fun
- Research has shown that children who are involved in sport tend to stay in school longer and get better grades
- Assist in developing behaviors that will encourage life long health and well being.