Movement for children - Why?

Movement is an elementary component for the development of healthy children and therefore an important component in the OMNIS children's academy and sports school

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The number of people who are overweight, have cardiovascular diseases or suffer from back pain is constantly increasing. What does this have to do with your still young child, you ask? A LOT OF! There is increasing recognition that targeted exercise offers can prevent these diseases. But only those who have known movement from childhood and enjoy it will also give it space in adulthood and see it as part of a balanced lifestyle.

For an adult, physical exertion two to three times a week of around 60 minutes is considered sufficient. Children, on the other hand, need a daily load unit of at least (!) two hours to build up their organic functions.

Children's world is a world of movement – what children learn through movement

For most adults, health, fitness, and the desire to have a beautiful, fit body are important motives for moving and playing sports. For children, these attributes are not a driving force. They move for the simple reason that they want to experience joy, fun and pleasure while doing it. It is fundamentally human nature to move. Without this natural disposition, development from a dependent baby to an independent, self-confident and healthy adult personality is hardly possible. The movement experiences and the movement possibilities in the first 11 to 12 years of life are of particular importance. Movement can thus be seen as the basic principle of a life that develops physically, mentally and spiritually: without movement there is no life.

  • A child spontaneously jumps for joy, runs, climbs, swings, jumps and rages; this leads to more and more (movement) security, independence and spatial exploration and thus environmental experience.

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The child's curiosity is great. This is something completely natural and an important part of its harmonious development. In the course of its differentiation, the brain is hungry for experience; it absorbs impressions easily and quickly learns to store them in memory as complex patterns. And how can children find out more about what is on offer than through sensually active engagement with their environment? Sensory experiences and body experiences are essential, for example, so that we can consciously experience our body and deal with it. Gathering body experiences includes:

  • trying out different positions of the body and various types of locomotion (e.g. running, climbing, jumping, crawling, hopping, sliding).
  • to test the body balance in different positions and on different surfaces (e.g. rocking, swinging, rolling, turning, hopping, balancing on narrow and unstable surfaces)
  • to experience the body's limits through touch stimuli (e.g. tactile games) and movement in limited spaces (passing through and overcoming obstacles).
By touching, feeling, smelling, hearing and seeing, by wrangling and romping with others, by balancing, climbing and pushing, children actively experience their environment and their bodies. They use it to train quite unconsciously what they need to be able to do for the rest of their lives.
Children need an environment they can touch, feel, hear, smell, move around in and gain experience in. The grasping for objects of all kinds, which they practice so often, becomes a “grasping” and grasping a “grasping”. This action is to be regarded as an important part of the development of knowledge, judgment and insight, i.e. of spiritual development. The experiences of "doing it yourself", "changing things yourself" in the game, "making your own decisions" - even if it takes several attempts to be successful - are essential for us to develop independently and self-confidently. It can be assumed that a sense of achievement in the area of movement contributes to greater confidence in one's own abilities.

Daring makes you self-confident!

The appeal of so many activities is often based on the uncertainty as to the extent to which the self-imposed requirements can or cannot be mastered. In addition, children learn early on to assess unfamiliar and sometimes dangerous situations and to adapt their behavior accordingly. Dangerous situations or dealing with dangerous objects in particular gives the children more lasting experience and skills than if they were prevented from doing anything by prohibitions and only theoretically prepared for dangers through years of instruction.

Children need freedom because they want to actively participate in shaping their lives. The child's autonomy must not be restricted. Adults should stretch a "safety net" on the way to independence and personal responsibility - but then they have to let their children balance themselves. Educators see this as an essential educational approach to enable children at an early stage to assess their own abilities, to adapt to dangers and to flexibly align their actions to specific situations.

Above all, children need time and opportunity for experiments and their own activity, which must not be restricted by too narrow a “set of rules” and paternalism on the part of adults. The child needs suitable help and incentives from its social environment that are geared towards satisfying and developing its natural "basic needs" so that these needs can be experienced in the long term. In addition to love, affection, recognition, praise, appreciation and social bonding, the need for exercise and play is such a fundamental need.

after dr Dieter Breithecker Sports and exercise scientist He heads the federal working group for posture and exercise promotion eV in Wiesbaden and is a board member of the forum "Healthy back - better living eV"
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