The Benefits of Putting Young Girls Into Sports
The Benefits of Putting Young Girls Into Sports
By: J.Williams
Edited By: R.Jenkins
Sports at times can be expensive. Between enrolling in a club, driving up and down the highway for tournaments, and traveling to practices we understand that this can be a big commitment for caregivers. But although this may seem like a lot the characteristic these girls gain from sports is so beneficial for a child’s development. When you enroll girls in sports your child will have better grades in school, have a better social life, and gain a career boost.
Academic Performance
Enrolling your child in sports helps improve academic success by gaining organizational skills, time management, and establishing priorities. When you place girls into sports they immediately have to juggle the responsibilities of managing multiple things at once. Although that can be stressful at times this prepares them for academic success. You learn what it takes to manage multiple aspects of life. You learn how to stay organized so that you know what assignments or do. You gain time management by learning how to prioritize time for homework, studying, downtime, and sports. This also helps girls face the big questions of what is most important to them. Learning how to manage to do the things you love while also managing the responsibility of the school.
Social Life
Not only can sports help you gain academic skills, but they also help with your social life. If you’re playing a team sport you automatically gain built-in friends that help you learn how to communicate and also make plans. By enrolling in sports your child gets the opportunity to work on communication at an early age. A Go Out And Play study shows that female athletes are more popular in today’s society. Specifically amongst elementary and middle school, that there are popularity gains due to involvement in sports.
Career Boost
Lastly, enrolling girls in sports have also shown significant gains in future careers. Seven out of ten women executives reported that playing sports has helped them develop leadership skills. Nine of the ten women executives also reported that sports helped them be more disciplined. I think it’s important that all the women executives in the survey have played sports showing that women who play sports can translate what they’ve learned from their sports into their career field. But also, this shows how learning these important skills like leadership and communication can be translated into the workplace.
Overall, playing a sport has so many benefits for a child’s development. From first-hand experience playing sports, since I was 10, I can say as well that sports have helped me develop skills that I might otherwise not have developed until much later in life. Enrolling your child in sports helps provide foundational skills that they will be able to use for the rest of their life. I hope that you take into consideration the importance playing a sport can have in a child’s life and look for opportunities to enroll your child.
Sources
https://www.momsteam.com/successful-parenting/sports-benefit-girls-in-many-ways?page=0%2C0
