How important is sports in a girls development?
Everybody needs to do physical activities for health throughout their life. One component of sports is getting girls comfortable with their bodies so they’re not so inhibited. The sports component adds teaching competition, winning and losing, teaching collaboration, being a team player. Ideally, every person should learn when to help each other, when to work together as a team, when to try to beat the other team without animosity. Q: Let’s say your daughter hates practicing piano and hates soccer. What do you suggest? A: Early on, in preschool and the early primary grades, parents shouldn’t even give kids choices. They should just sign them up. Little kids don’t know how to make those choices. So many parents are letting little kids make all the decisions. They’re losing experiences or getting the sense that they’re adolescents by the time they’re 5. Later in elementary school, give them choices among activities, not choices to do or not to do. You need to pick a sport. It could be sw
