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Sunday 2 February 2014

Swimming stimulus influence on the development of Life Skills …. post 42


There is no ‘magic wand’. To learn and/or teach requires that we use each and every skill that has been shared with us since the first ‘post’ of this ‘blog’. Go back to review from time to time to remind ourselves of or improve on these skills

Regular, simple skills practiced repeatedly, fun routines which include lots of ‘breathing and bubble blowing’,‘kicking’ and ‘picking up toys with the face in the water are the magic

In our routine it is really fun to sometimes go back to basics to practice all our learned skills in an exaggerated, wild way within the boundaries of safety of course. We’ll realize how skilled, how smart and confident we have become

 


Learning/teaching skills slowly, from a young age, in a knowledgeable, structured, disciplined environment for a minimum period of one year has a greater advantage on our development and the development of Life Skills. Early motor stimulation has an effect on the total development of children. Development applies to all ages, abilities, disabilities ….

Physical/Mental/Emotional Development   

Accelerates and increases development;   accelerates psycho-physical development;  better ability to adapt to new situations;  greater self confidence, self-esteem and more independence;  greater concentration and focus;  more capable to meet new challenges;  more strong-willed;  more independent in decisions;  show initiative;  move about more spontaneously, more fearlessly with more certainty;  display greater motor activity;  superior in physical condition;  increased quality, accuracy and reaction of movement;   improved intelligence;  master new situations more quickly and independently;  more expressive and creative at play

Social Sphere  

Show greater readiness for social contact; participates in group activities; better ability to be integrated into the peer group; more willingness to visit other children away from home and play outdoors; more able to tolerate and react calmly to disappointments inflicted by children in peer groups; better interaction between child and parent; better prepared for diversified activities like ballet, karate, gymnastics, horse riding, ice skating, music, art hobbies, snorkeling, kayaking, surf disciplines, cycling, synchronized swimming, water polo, nipper life/surf lifesaving 

Personality Development in the areas of self-reliance vs dependence or fear; performance motivation as well as the differentiation adaptation to task; stimulated and motivated by task; handle confrontations with new and strange situations better and more effortlessly; control own behaviour;  aware of own exertion, proficiency, mastering of a given task;  learn to express ourselves mentally, physically, emotionally;  realize our full potential

 


 

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