Spontaneous motivation made her persist in high-intensity physical training for more than a year. As a result, the little girl completed the extreme challenge competition that 90% adults in the United States could not pass: 58 km running, 8 km swimming, crossing back and forth on the track with 25 obstacles, climbing ropes, climbing walls, crawling under barbed wire and so on. She became an idol of her friends and was invited as an ambassador against youth violence and school bullying.
Behind every Niu Wa, there is an awesome parent. She said to her father, "My father has always been by my side and is my best partner and coach."
Why do foreign parents attach so much importance to sports? This can not help but make us feel a lot. A passage from a British school brilliantly summed up:
Since exercise is so important to children, how to cultivate children's exercise habits from an early age?
First of all, we should attach importance to the concept and know the importance of sports to children. Shen Wanjiu, the author of "Be a more tear-resistant self", mentioned that Oxford University has a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, and its enrollment has four criteria, one of which is love of sports, and it is best to have sports achievements. They believe that such people often have excellent minds and are future leaders worthy of training.
There is a simple reason. People who love sports have firm perseverance, optimistic attitude, good health and clear goals. Such people are not successful.
In the west, most leaders are athletes. Why do athletes often stand out from the crowd in society? Because they have indestructible self-confidence and appeal.
The team that can win must also have experienced many adversities, and it is inevitable that there will be disappointment, fear, doubt and annoyance ... especially in the ever-changing competition field.
In the case of falling behind in the game, the core figures must abandon their distractions and concentrate on thinking about the next ball in order to seize the opportunity to win it back. This kind of opportunity is often fleeting, and we must keep a high degree of attention to seize it. This is exactly what a successful person should have.
Therefore, in American school education, physical education is the first, followed by learning. They know that excessive and premature cognitive and memory learning will affect children's health and vitality.
British experts point out that parents should try their best to encourage babies to move, crawl, get enough food and carry things. In short, they should guide them to move all parts of their bodies. Preschool children aged 1.5-5 are required to exercise and live for at least 3 hours every day, both indoors and outdoors.
The younger the child, the easier it is to develop exercise habits. About 45% of our behavior comes from habit. Habit is actually far more important than the meaning represented by this 45% ratio, because habit is a repetitive behavior, most of which are repeated every day. In the long run, the repetition of this exercise habit will benefit endlessly.
We should try different sports with him, lead him to find his favorite sports, guide him to enjoy the different self-confidence and sense of accomplishment brought by sports, enjoy the social progress brought by sports, enjoy the fun after sweating and enjoy the fun of teamwork.
In children's childhood, the process is more important than the result. To fully experience the fun brought by sports, this experience will leave a deep impression on the mind, thus becoming a lifelong habit of children.
Our guidance can be from simple to practice, and gradually deepen the difficulty.
Such as ball games. Children don't care about any kind of ball. As long as they have the ball, they practice pitching, pitching, kicking and so on. You might as well play with other children.
Vehicles: balance bicycles, scooters and pedal karts or tractors (specially designed for children). Vehicle training develops children's sense of speed and direction. When the children are older, they can also choose open spaces and draw simulated traffic maps to create obstacles for them, which is endless fun.
Coordination: such as balance beam, roller, yoga ball, trampoline, uneven bars for children, etc. It is recommended to go to a professional preschool sports center, because the younger the child, the more professional sports protection methods are needed.
Climbing: Climbing is not only conducive to the practice of children's big motor skills, but also can exercise children's spatial perception and depth perception, which is also helpful to the cultivation of children's logical thinking.
The qualities that children need to cultivate can be perfectly exercised in sports, such as independence, communication, cooperation, persistence, leadership, fair competition, rules and so on. These are the necessary qualities for us to achieve our career and a happy life.
In this sense, physical education is personality education.