{"id":7890,"date":"2022-07-04T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T06:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/sports-for-boys-and-girls\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:18:18","slug":"sports-for-boys-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/sports-for-boys-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports for boys and girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sport brings enormous benefits to children both physically and mentally, as well as improving social relations and promoting important values such as willpower, struggle and responsibility. In addition, if practiced in a team, it is much better because it fosters relationships with others and helps to accept victories and defeats. The influence of teachers and families is crucial for them to integrate sport into their lives in a positive way. Encouraging the habit of sports in children from an early age guarantees a healthy lifestyle in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some benefits:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Physical and mental development.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  Sport considerably favors the physical and mental growth of children, as it helps them become more aware of their bodies and improves their capacity for self-control. They develop skills such as flexibility, coordination, endurance and balance.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Reduces stress.  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children who practice sports on a regular basis are more likely to combat stress in any situation and physical activities also improve their level of concentration and academic performance.  <\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Promotes teamwork.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  Doing any physical activity together with a group of people teaches children that the involvement of team members is important in order to succeed and achieve victory.  <\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Increases self-esteem.  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overcoming obstacles gives children the self-confidence to face other challenges. When they are recognized for a job well done, their self-esteem increases considerably.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>They value effort.  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sport almost innately encourages effort to achieve short- and long-term results. Children learn that effort is the basis for achieving any goal.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>The creation of habits.  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The practice of physical exercise implies the creation of new healthy habits.  <\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Prevents health problems.  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who practice sports strengthen their immune system and prevent obesity.  <\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you haven&#8217;t tried our educational platform yet, you can do it for free by filling out this form <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/how-to-start-learning\/\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport brings enormous benefits for children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smileandlearn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}