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Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development
The acknowledgment of the qualities and features of the world is made through the body, movement, and imagination. During their development, children learn new skills, complexify their thoughts, and become more autonomous. The progressive increase in motor repertoire in children reflects a more unif...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9956671/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36833027 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040493 |
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author | Nery, Miguel Sequeira, Isabel Neto, Carlos Rosado, António |
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description | The acknowledgment of the qualities and features of the world is made through the body, movement, and imagination. During their development, children learn new skills, complexify their thoughts, and become more autonomous. The progressive increase in motor repertoire in children reflects a more unified and solid self. Nowadays, there is a generalized restriction of the movement of children. It starts at home when parents establish rigid and/or phobic attachments with their children; it can be also observed at school which is more and more based on rigid learning rhythms and obsessive ideas about students’ performance, and finally in urban areas where free and outdoor play has considerably decreased during recent decades. The current lifestyles in Western societies resulted in a decrease in play among children. The culture influences the dominant types of psychopathology and, during childhood, mental suffering is often expressed with the increase (turmoil) or decrease (inhibition) of the body movement. Sports are underpinned by movement and play; they are a powerful tool in health promotion and an excellent way to assign meaning to movement. This work is an essay about the importance of play and youth sports in child development. |
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spelling | pubmed-99566712023-02-25 Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development Nery, Miguel Sequeira, Isabel Neto, Carlos Rosado, António Healthcare (Basel) Perspective The acknowledgment of the qualities and features of the world is made through the body, movement, and imagination. During their development, children learn new skills, complexify their thoughts, and become more autonomous. The progressive increase in motor repertoire in children reflects a more unified and solid self. Nowadays, there is a generalized restriction of the movement of children. It starts at home when parents establish rigid and/or phobic attachments with their children; it can be also observed at school which is more and more based on rigid learning rhythms and obsessive ideas about students’ performance, and finally in urban areas where free and outdoor play has considerably decreased during recent decades. The current lifestyles in Western societies resulted in a decrease in play among children. The culture influences the dominant types of psychopathology and, during childhood, mental suffering is often expressed with the increase (turmoil) or decrease (inhibition) of the body movement. Sports are underpinned by movement and play; they are a powerful tool in health promotion and an excellent way to assign meaning to movement. This work is an essay about the importance of play and youth sports in child development. MDPI 2023-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9956671/ /pubmed/36833027 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040493 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Nery, Miguel Sequeira, Isabel Neto, Carlos Rosado, António Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development |
title | Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development |
title_full | Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development |
title_fullStr | Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development |
title_full_unstemmed | Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development |
title_short | Movement, Play, and Games—An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development |
title_sort | movement, play, and games—an essay about youth sports and its benefits for human development |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9956671/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36833027 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040493 |
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