The 8 benefits outdoor play
The way children play outdoors is different from the way they play indoors. Outdoor sports tend to be more active. So kids feel freer when they're outdoors.
The natural environment
At a time when children are immersedinto smartphones, tablets and video games.
Playing outdoors is often used as a background background.
But many of the best childhood memories are linked to time spent in the street parks, playgrounds or nature.
Play outside has only beneficial effects and these are both individual as well as social.
The game is essential to a child's growth.
Through games, children discover their own environment and explore relationships with others.
Outdoor play objectives
- Environmental awareness
- Stimulates cognitive and social development
- Promotes family ties
The 8 benefits of outdoor play for your children
1 - Mood
Playing, having fun and letting off steam outdoors contributes to a child's physical psychological and social development, and to happiness and well-being.
2 - Diseases
Children who play outdoors, learn à assess danger themselves, so (minor) accidents are unlikely.
Physical activity helps reduce lrisk of cardiovascular disease and strengthen the muscular and bone condition.
3 - Weight
For prevent the risk of overweight and obesity, children need 60 min/day of physical activity for good health.
Free or structured outdoor play, helps children maintain an ideal weight.
4 - Motor skills
Outdoors, children develop their motor skills, i.e. ; running, jumping, throwing, sliding, catching, rolling, turning, etc.
This enables them to be more self-sufficient in the long term. more autonomous and make the right decisions in the face of life's daily challenges.
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5 - faculties
According to a panel of neuroscience experts, all children and young people should be physically active active on a regular basis.
In addition to its health benefits, physical activity improves also improves cognitive processes, brain function brain function and mental health.
6 - The Creative Spirit
By playing outdoors, children develop their creativity and show themselves able to develop various scenarios.
7 - Friends
An environmental and natural setting is more conducive to make new friends.
Friendships are made more easily by sharing an activity.
Remember your childhood... At school, in the neighbor's garden, etc...
8 - Discovery
Explore and discover new horizons facilitates the development of independence and self-confidence.
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