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Life is a competition where one needs to overcome obstacles. Sport can help children to learn how to better tackle threats and obstacles
Manage uncertainty and stressful situations is a crucial skill for everyday life. The sooner kids have to deal with such situations, the better they will manage later. Through sport kids are taught in a playful way to stop lamenting about things that happened and instead to look forward focusing their energy on finding new solutions
Signing up for a sport includes to learn the rules of the game. Not always will children like these rules and try to get around them. However, eventually sport games require rules and those need to be followed. Similarly, life also requires adjusting to rules and norms whether these are social, educational or professional
Last but not least, sport can help children to deal with conflict. Team sports are particularly good for this, but even in tennis as an individual sport, one is part of a team, which makes the kid to adapt socially, to showcase empathy and to become more tolerant and kinder. Even dealing with inner conflict is an important thing to learn for children. Likewise with their peers, kids should progressively understand to be kind, patient and tolerant with themselves