How Sports Can Educate Kids with Important Life Lessons

Sports are so much more than fun and games. Participation in a sports league, on a team, or even a solo sport can be a valuable educational experience for children, teaching them lifelong lessons they’ll take into adulthood. While your child becomes more athletic and fine tunes her abilities, sports will also give her other knowledge and power that can be even more beneficial than the game itself.

Teamwork

If your child is part of a team sport, working together to score is part of the program. This idea of using one another’s strengths in order to succeed as a team is something that your child will learn from and use in life off the field too. One person cannot be a pro at everything in life, and your child will need to aid others as well as take help from people over the years to come in school, work, and family life. By using the skills she’s learned as part of a sports team, she will be able to better work and co-exist with others as she gets older. Remember, there’s no “I” in team!

Patience

Patience is a virtue that can be finely mastered by being part of a sports team. Not everyone on the team will always score or even play well. As a team member, your child will learn to have patience and not become frustrated when she would have played it another way or wishes her teammate had performed better. When you cannot have control over the actions of others, patience to let them make their own moves and decisions is something your child will need to resolve to have. Patience will allow your child to better navigate new areas of her life as well as let others realize she is a caring and considerate person.

Confidence

Sports can give kids confidence no matter how good they are at the game. Just by getting out there and trying their best, kids will feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. Feeling fit and having fun with others helps boost confidence too. In the future, the confidence built via sports will shine through in school and work, and give kids the ability to meet new friends and do new things. It may start on the field but the feeling will extend into all areas of your child’s life.

Have you found that sports have given your child important life lessons that can be used both on and off the ball field? What are some of the best things your child has learned thanks to sports?

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By: Melissa A. Kay