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What can a 7-year-old do? Have fun playing and playing carefree?
However, this 7-year-old boy in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, accompanied by his father, exercised for 1 and a half to 2 hours every night.
Moreover, this habit has been adhered to for 5 years!
In the video, the child's flexible posture, strong muscles, and strong arm strength are all amazing.
It is the warm companionship of the father and the child's gritted teeth persistence that has made the child's five-year, more than 1800-day growth path.
In recent years, more and more parents have begun to pay attention to their children's physical exercise.
In October last year, Wang Dengfeng, director of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, said that it is necessary to achieve a "double increase" in sports and aesthetic education, and increase the time for students to participate in sports activities in schools.
A child's life is like a long track, and what determines whether a child can succeed in the future is not only grades, knowledge, and skills, but also a strong physique and a sound mind.
01 Exercise, strengthen the child's physique
Plato once said, "God provides two paths to success, education and movement." ”
The road to education has attracted much attention, and parents and children have done their best.
But what about the road to movement? The World Health Organization's 2019 Report on Physical Inactivity among Adolescents states that 4 out of every 5 adolescents worldwide are underactive and affect health.
Many parents recognize the benefits of exercise for their children, but they are worried that sports will occupy a lot of their children's time and affect their children's learning.
Is this really the case?
Professor Li Meijin said: "Those who are particularly active in the playground are particularly good at learning. ”
Looking at the school bullies around us, as well as the well-known celebrities, most of them are also sports experts.
Zhou Runfa, the leader of the "Star Running Group", Academician Yuan Longping, the "Father of Hybrid Rice" who once won a swimming medal at the Provincial Games, and Wang Yaping, the "Most Beautiful Astronaut" who can win the first place in various long-distance running competitions in the School Games...
After years of experimental research, Harvard University professor John Ratey has found that the importance of exercise lies in the health of the brain.
He wrote about this research into his book "Exercise Transforms the Brain", which has become a global bestseller and changed the perception of many people.
He proposed: "Exercise is the best brain-building pill. ”
This also explains why those who love sports tend to think actively, do things seriously, and have a high degree of concentration.
02 Exercise, sound children's minds
Before the final exam, I gave my son the first offline parent-teacher meeting after the "double subtraction".
At the meeting, a sentence from the homeroom teacher shocked me: "After the 'double reduction' policy, the real winners in the future must be mental health children." ”
This is really not alarmist, last December, the China Children's Center released the "Children's Blue Book: China Child Development Report (2021)", which clearly pointed out that non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior are not uncommon among adolescents, and the mental health of adolescents is facing more and more challenges.
A casual flip on the Internet can see that many young children have conflicts with their parents, because the pressure of learning is too great, and because of a criticism from the teacher, they easily give up their lives.
The loss of these young lives is lamentable.
So, how to solve the problem of children's mental health?
The answer is simple: exercise!
The significance of exercise for children is not only to strengthen their health, but also to improve their minds and reshape their personality.
There is a highly praised question on Zhihu: How much does exercise help children's growth?
Olympic champion Wu Minxia believes that the most important thing for children is the release of nature, physical exercise, and mentality cultivation.
From diving in 1991 to retiring in 2016, 25 years of professional athlete career, one of the words she felt most deeply was perseverance.
Overcoming congenital weakness, overcoming injuries, and overcoming failures, she was finally able to stand on the highest podium.
Wu Minxia finally said: "How to understand the meaning of practice, the strength of perseverance, how to look at winning and losing, how to cooperate with partners, how to face those opponents, how to face the views, expectations, pressures of the outside world... The cultivation of these mentalities is a valuable wealth that can be harvested through sports." ”
Exercise is a beam of light that shines into the hearts of children, blowing away the haze, blowing away the clouds of sorrow, and supporting them to go further.
03 Cultivate children's interest in sports,
There are three principles that parents should follow
Although exercise is conducive to children's physical and mental health, the more exercise is not better, the greater the intensity, the better.
To cultivate children's interest in sports, parents must follow three principles:
1, exercise should be enough
Some parents will think: My baby moves around all day, not idle for a moment, is this amount of exercise enough?
There are actually two misunderstandings here, which need to be reminded of the attention of parents:
Effective exercise = aerobic exercise
Healthy exercise = moderate intensity
On 25 November 2020, WHO issued the Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour, which states that children and adolescents should exercise at least 60 minutes of moderate to intense intensity exercise per day, with aerobic exercise.
2, the exercise should be appropriate
Your child's movements should be in line with your child's age and growth and development characteristics:
0-5 years old: mainly based on big sports exercises, such as walking, running and jumping, shooting, etc., older children, you can try cycling and other sports.
3. Pay attention to relaxation after exercise
Children are young and overwork can have an impact on their health.
Therefore, after the child exercises, parents should pay attention to keeping the child warm in time and drinking more warm water. When you get home, be sure to wash your hands and rest for a while before eating. Meals should be mainly warm and easy to digest.
At the same time, it is necessary to ensure adequate sleep for children and let children replenish their physical strength during sleep.
The purpose of education has never been to cultivate a smart "small town to be a problemmaker", but to raise a healthy, sunny, idealistic and future child.
For the sake of their children's future, let them put down their books, walk out of the "score of the shura field", walk into the sports field, walk into nature, run in the sun, and laugh on the earth.
This is the most beautiful look of a child.