Parenting] Physical Activity for Toddlers

體能遊戲是幼兒教育中重要的一環，除了能促進兒童的身體發展外，更能培育他們的意志、自信、群體性及日後對美的欣賞和表達方面都有很大的幫助，而且孩子們需要從體能的遊戲中得到滿足，讓身體能健康地成長，精神得到飽足，情緒得到調和。體能活動一般分為大肌肉和小肌肉兩方面，大肌肉活動的主要目的是讓孩子掌握體能發展的基礎能力，如平衡力、協調性、敏捷性和柔軟性..等。在幼兒階段的體能活動中，一般也較頃向於這方面的訓練。

In recent years, due to changes in the social environment, children have less and less space to move around and play, and with the proliferation of apartment buildings, children are like pigeons, returning home when the time comes, and then letting themselves out again when school is in session every other day, accompanied by TVs, computers, and endless talent classes. This, coupled with the over-protective parenting attitude of parents, has resulted in today's children having very poor physical fitness, poor stamina, a gradual increase in the number of children with sensory integration disorders, and a lowering of their relative resistance to illness. These problems are gradually being taken seriously by parents and kindergartens, which recognize that physical activity is also an important part of the learning curriculum for young children.

In fact, physical fitness for young children has been implemented in kindergartens in China for one or two decades, and each kindergarten has provided quite a lot of equipment to meet the needs of every young child in terms of the environment for young children to play and the apparatus for playing. In the game, physical activities are carried out individually, in groups or in groups, that is, through various kinds of games, children can give full play to their own imagination and add their own action games, instead of just issuing commands by the instructor, so that every child can have his/her own ideas and ways of playing.

「活動，活動，活著就要常常動」這樣身體才會健康與強壯，幼兒透過身體活動的遊戲，可以獲得其他種類遊戲無法達到的效果：

1. It can develop children's physical strength and endurance.
2. It can develop children's dexterity and skills.
3. It can also develop children's good exercise habits and interests.

In fact, physical fitness professionals are not the only ones who can instruct children in physical fitness activities, which in effect restricts the promotion of the program. In fact, every father and mother can be a physical fitness teacher for their children, as long as you pay attention to the safety of the play equipment and the safety of the environment and the rules of the game, and every day use 30 minutes to take your child to the school playground or nearby parks to exercise, and in the meantime to promote parent-children emotion, I believe that you can also be the king of the children in the hearts of the children.

文/郭進昌