What is sport in your opinion? I think too many people do not realise that even chess is a sport.
To get children playing sport again, I think has a lot to do with the way the teacher present it to a child.
We start from little ones on athletics and carry on from there.
We look for the best runners and athletes which is not wrong at all but is it all we have to look at.
I personally think that there will be children who stand out, it does not mean they know it; it is the teacher’s job to motivate that child.
After teaching sport for so many years I never had trouble to get a child to participate.
Why must we teach these children? Life has become one big technological age for most of them.
There is nothing wrong for a child to enjoy technology.
Instead of letting them play games give them a reason to find things out on technology. Like why are we having problems with our Ice melting, why is the sea rising I can carry on with this, but if they have something new to learn at least they are using technology in a better way than just playing games. You can even start a class and find out who found the most interesting thing on the computer.
Then we have children who just have a natural way of enjoying sport. We seem to stick to the same sport games. All children do not like athletics, rugby, soccer cricket as well as hockey.
We must start realising that gymnastics is a very good sport for children.
Then some people might not agree with me but ballet is one of the best sports that a child can do.
The big problem is these are not seen as sport at many schools.
I say anything that can make a child think and move is a sport.
Now we have to get the parents to help us, as they must prevent their children from sitting playing games all the time and sitting on their phones.
As children we had none of these amenities and we climbed a tree walked on walls. It might sound silly that I think it is a sport because they have to use their brain as well as their bodies.
Remember all children do not like activities that make them move too much and they are normally not very good at it.
Let them use their brain instead of playing games and just sitting in front of the computer every day.
We have debates at school to me that is a sport. They have to think and talk and argue their point.
Who on earth decided that sport must be things where you use a ball or a hockey stick.
I think any game where you can use your brain is a sport.
Sport should be wider at schools as the children who cannot do physical sport can do other things like I have just mentioned, we have to give them the same credit as we do when they do physical sport.
We have gone into a rut and only say certain things are sport.
The point is too keeping kids busy with something for them to use their brain. It is the most important part of the body in any case.
This is just my opinion but the whole point is to make them learn something. That cannot just be games and by giving them just a certain time to play their games make it possible for us to let them learn while working on their computers.
My personal opinion is that the word sport must be widened to things that children who cannot play sport and not because they do not want to but it is just not in their DNA let them rise up, in other things that we can call sport and take them away from their Xbox for at least long enough to do something new.
There are children who write beautiful poems and stories yet that does not count at all.
I personally, and it just my meaning think that anything where a child has to use his brain is a sport.
I think we should look at all this in a different way as the idea is to keep them busy with things that could teach them something they like.
I think of spelling bee’s as well math Olympics these can all been seen as a sport as these children learn hard and try their best.
Why can it not be given the same appreciation as sports as we see it with a ball?
I really think we must change the way we see sport and it would keep so many more children happy.
I am now thinking about my children who grew the most beautiful vegetable and flowers. Why can they not also get something to put on their blazers to show how good they are?
So I think if we change the way we think about sport it would make a very big difference to all our children.
Remember we are not all alike, and we don’t all like doing the same things, but every child has something that he might like and they get no praise for it.
Have a wonderful day here from the Wild Coast. Hope some agree with me.
