Sentences with phrase «playing organized sports»

If we are serious about educating our children, we need to start them at the same age they begin playing organized sports — the pre-K years — and see them through college, the level of education needed to succeed in an Information Age economy.

«With around 40 million children playing organized sports, these potential benefits are no small matter.

Do not spend more than twice as much time playing organized sports as you spend in unstructured play.

We're still potty training and that's way more of a priority right now than playing organized sports.

Of the estimated 35 million kids playing organized sports in America, many are unseen under state laws that only focus on student athletes.

I suspected then, and I suspect now, that all parents would say, if asked, that they put their kids» safety first — whether it is playing organized sports, at home, or riding their bike in the neighborhood.

Ben Sand and Peter Taylor, analysts at the Winnipeg - based Frontier Centre for Public Policy, cite evidence that the Children's Fitness Tax Credit, for example, doesn't encourage more children to play organized sports.

If you have every played organized sports you know these schedules are handed out in advance.

So Strowman has the Raw Tag Team Championship, Nicholas has a cool story to tell and a fun memory, and The Bar have the ignominy of beating defeated by one person and an elementary school student who might not even play organized sports.

In the U.S. more than 10 million children under the age of 16 play organized sports, coached or otherwise supervised by more than a million adults, many of them unscreened male volunteers — which is to say, men on whom background checks have never been done.

Though many sports programs are available for preschoolers, it's not until about age 6 or 7 that most kids have the physical skills, the attention span, and the ability to grasp the rules needed to play organized sports.

At Prairie Moon Waldorf School, our Games and Movement curriculum cultivates basic coordination and movement skills that will help when students decide to play organized sports.

For some people, choosing which sports to pursue throughout high school is hard because they have never really played an organized sport before and aren't sure what they'll most enjoy.

Children this age don't understand rules and often are not coordinated enough to play organized sports.

Your child can start playing an organized sport when he has the skills he needs to play.

Before playing an organized sport, children should have a pre-participation physical exam.

By early elementary school — age 6 or 7 — most kids have the physical coordination and attention span, plus the ability to grasp rules, which they need to play organized sports.

Not exact matches

Bowling, golf, softball, basketball and tennis are the «organized» sports played after working hours (there are about 120 bowling teams and seven golf leagues).

Studies show children and teens who spend twice as many hours a week in organized sports than in free play are prone to injuries at a greater rate.

While organized sports offer great benefits, kids develop athletically and learn a ton from playing kid - sized pick - up games and age - appropriate games like tag.

The most recent concussion consensus statements [1,7,15] recommend neuropsychological (NP) testing in making return to play decisions after concussion, and formal baseline NP screening of athletes in all organized sports in which there is a high risk of concussion (e.g. football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, basketball), regardless of the age or level of performance.

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

Having a child playing sports, much less two or three playing on multiple teams in the same sports season, can be challenge even for the most organized mom.

It's a nice break from organized sports and you can play along with the kids to burn some extra calories yourself.

Approximately 35 million children between the ages of 5 and 18 play some kind of organized sport every year.

«Finding ways to decrease the incidence and severity of sports - related injuries is critical to keeping kids playing sports long - term and reaping the benefits that organized athletics provides,» said Dawn Comstock, PhD, a co-author of the study and assistant professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

The report we release today, «Sport for All, Play for Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game,» offers an ambitious plan to reimagine organized youth sports, prioritizing health and inclusion, while recognizing the benefits of unstructured pPlay for Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game,» offers an ambitious plan to reimagine organized youth sports, prioritizing health and inclusion, while recognizing the benefits of unstructured playplay.

Outdoors - sand pits, water play, bikes, scooters and skateboards, climbing frames, ropes, ball skills, organized sports

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As I was thinking about the importance of unstructured play, it just so happened that in my email inbox was a note from a friend in New York who heard about a group at the State University of New York (SUNY) called Youth Sports New York which is organizing an event they are calling SANDLOT DAY 2010TM.

between the ages of 5 and 18 play some kind of organized sport every year.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

They are able to play organized games and sports and are able to sustain longer periods of activity.

The current international consensus of experts (Zurich consensus statement), [1] views computerized neuropsychological or neurocognitive (NP) testing as having clincal value in evaluation for concussion and as an aid in determining when it is safe for an athlete to return to play after a concussion, and recommends formal baseline NP screening of athletes in all organized sports in which there is a high risk of concussion (e.g. football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, basketball), regardless of the age or level of performance.

«When kids are involved in organized sports, it should be at a level that corresponds to each child's particular interests and ability and should not replace spontaneous play.

So if your child plays pickup basketball and other playground games for 4 hours a week, he should spend no more than 8 hours a week devoted to organized play and / or practice of a single sport.

I've said in the past that I'm not rushing my son into organized youth sports, but when he is ready to play, I hope he gets a coach like Belisle.

It is akin to pushing your child into an organized sport he isn't ready to play.

Give your child or teen lots of time to be active in both structured activities, like organized sports, and unstructured activities, like playing in a playground.

Instead, kids do better with lifestyle exercise programs, including active free play and organized team and individual youth sports.

Help her find the play activities that best fit her temperament and personality — whether it is organized school sports or music lessons, free - play situations (riding her bike, playing with friends), or a combination of these.

At this age, your child is a little too young for organized sports, but she may watching others play (especially other kids) and trying little - kid versions of sports gear and toys.

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• Increase the amount of unstructured free play, while limiting the amount of time spent in organized sports and specialized training.

Playing organized teams sports is a huge part of the Australian culture.»

It plays an important role in developing and introducing Sign Language, organizing various cultural and sports events and helping Deaf and partially deaf people to find work and to rehabilitate them.

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Wellness and the Mind - Body Connection: This issue investigates the connections between mind, body, and learning, focusing on topics such as food and nutrition, the role of play in learning and schools, organized sports, wellness, personal fitness, care of the self, time spent outdoors, meditation, spiritual practices, and attention to emotional and psychological needs.

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Save the expensive gear for when the little ones stop growing and buy secondhand from stores like Play it Again Sports, or through sales / swaps organized by minor hockey associations or online classifieds.