Extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities are beneficial and engaging for middle school students. However, sometimes parents focus solely on their child’s academic performance and high grades, without allowing them to participate in extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities.
This can lead to limitations and shortcomings for your child such as:
- Decreased interest in learning, creativity, and exploration.
- Decline in physical, mental, and emotional health.
- Lack of essential life skills, communication, and cooperation.
- Most importantly, reduced opportunities to develop interests, talents, and potential.Therefore, parents should encourage their children to engage in extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities to enhance their health and talents.
These activities will provide significant benefits for the child:
- Firstly, participating in extracurricular and sports activities helps children to exercise, relax, and relieve stress. It promotes a healthy body, cheerful mood, and emotional stability, balancing study and leisure, work and pleasure.
- Extracurricular activities provide opportunities for children to socialize, make friends, and work in teams. They develop better communication, listening, and persuasion skills, enhancing cooperation, sharing, and their ability to cope with pressure, conflicts, and failures.
- Increases opportunities for children to develop interests, talents, and potential by daring to express themselves confidently. Extracurricular activities offer chances for children to be recognized and appreciated for their achievements. Moreover, they expand and enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Finally, through extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities, children learn and experience many new, interesting, and beneficial things. They develop critical thinking, imagination, and problem-solving abilities, fostering creativity and exploration, motivating them to excel not only in knowledge but also in skills.
To encourage their children to participate in extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities, parents can:
- Research activities that interest and are suitable for their children. Parents should explore extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities that their children enjoy, excel in, and are appropriate for their age and abilities. They can also learn about activities organized by schools, communities, or other organizations from reliable sources such as books, newspapers, the internet, or professionals like teachers, coaches, artists, etc.
- Encourage and support their children to participate in extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities that interest them. Parents should create opportunities and conditions for their children to participate in these activities, such as registration, shopping, transportation, etc.
Parents also need to encourage and support their children when they encounter difficulties, disappointments, or discouragement in these activities. A simple compliment and praise when they make progress, succeed, or find joy in these activities can make a significant difference.
Lastly, parents should participate in and monitor their children’s involvement in extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities. This shows care and affection for their children, not only materially but also emotionally. Parents should monitor their progress, results, and feedback in these activities, such as scores, awards, comments, or suggestions.
Therefore, extracurricular, sports, and artistic activities offer many benefits for the comprehensive development of children. Parents should encourage and support their children’s participation in these activities to the best of their abilities. By doing so, parents will help their children have a happy childhood, good health, and opportunities for talent development.
If parents want more information about the teaching programs and methods of VSchool Middle School, they can visit or contact us via phone or our website:
- Address: No. 1, Street No. 1, An Lac A Ward, Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City
- Phone number: 0976 898 726
- Website: https://vschoolsg.vn/