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Kidihealth’s Suggestions on Suitable Exercises for Children in Different Ages
Exercise helps children fit physically. Along with a healthy diet for your children, you also need to consider a healthy exercise program in order to create a healthy lifestyle for them. But you should keep in mind that due to significant differences in children’s abilities, both physically and mentally, in different age groups, you should be careful in choosing a physical activity for your kid.
Here, we are providing you with some guidelines on how to choose exercises that are suitable for your child based on their age:
- Two to five year olds
- Six to nine year olds
- 10 to 12 year olds
Sports for children under the age of two can be summed up in the same ball-throwing and walking with parents; because the child is not able to be separated from the parents for a long time and, according to the age conditions, can not learn academic and regular education. In addition, children at this age have little ability to do many things and need their parents most of the time.
After the age of two, different games and activities can be taught to the child, which can be both fun and learning.
Suitable exercises in this age group are activities such as rhythmic movements, purposeful training in throwing objects such as balls, catching the ball as a purposeful movement and swimming. Each of these movements should be done with the help of a mentor or parent. Children's sports games should start at half an hour for the young age and last up to an hour for the older age.
Between the ages of six and nine, children gain more focus through seeing. Their movements are done with more concentration and they are able to concentrate more on learning. Children within this age group can understand concepts such as distance, speed, place, and time and can use these concepts in their activities.
Suitable sports in this age group can be simple ball sports, running, gymnastics, swimming, tennis, teaching artistic and sports activities. For children at the age of six and seven, it is better if the educator has direct supervision over their activity. But as you reach the age of nine, children can get more individual and their exercises can be done under the supervision of a coach but as a group of students. Moreover, the presence of parents is not necessary for children in this age group.
Within this age group, children can fully understand the principles and concepts related to visual acuity. For this reason, they can easily do sports such as football, volleyball, basketball, skiing, etc. In fact, their minds have the ability to focus on doing a few sub-activities together.
For example, they learn and repeat activities such as focusing on speed control, coordinating with a group, receiving the ball, keeping and controlling the ball, setting a goal and throwing the ball into it at the same time in a game such as football. At this age, the chosen sport has the role of a coach to promote and maintain the child's balance and concentration.