Sports can be categorized as indoor games, outdoor sports, traditional games and competitive games. Children gather happiness and pleasure from those sports and games. Most of the children do indoor games, outdoor sports and competitive games. What they receive from those are happiness and fun. Like that some children have a habit of short time sport during their studies. Experiments have proven that the memory power increase by this type of habit.
Playing indoor games such as chess, carom and outdoor sports such as volleyball, netball, cricket helps to normalize the mental health of children. Outdoor sports also help to physical health. These sports gives exercise to body and muscle contractions and relaxations happen in large amount. When contract and relax muscles human body generates a hormone called endonic which helps to happiness. Therefore sports will evaporate the stress.
Sports help to develop mental and social abilities. A child who joined with sports such as group sports will develop the ability to play in order of a leadership or have a practical knowledge about leadership. And also develop skills of respecting rules, team play, practicing for a goal, concentration, etc. It is easy to go for a goal, to a child who practiced a sport well. Therefore he/she will achieve good skills in education also.
Some children have very skittish activities and like a headache for others. Forward such children for a sport to use that energy. Sport will train them to cool and control that energy. They have to practice to act to a rule. Therefore the skittish behavior will completely changed to a calm and more valuable one.
While doing a sport you have to bear win or fail. Therefore a child will train to bear the win or fail with equanimity. Therefore as same as developing physical abilities, children can develop their personality, manipulation and energy.
If a child direct to sports we have to teach him/her to balance it with education. And every time keep on alert of behavior of the friends or members of their sports teams. If a child attracted to computer games, parents have to limit that. To build a healthy, good child, as parents you have to concern very much on their sports.