【推荐1】Sports play a large role in millions of lives. As parents, we want to find an activity that our children are passionate (热诚的) about. Let’s look at how to encourage kids to play sports.

Let them pick which sport they want to play. Don’t force kids to follow in your footsteps.     1     Sports could be a chance to explore those undiscovered passions.

    2    Once they decide to play a sport, take them to an event where that sport is played at a high level. We all remember the athletes we looked up to as a kid and trying to mimic (模仿) their every move.

Praise effort and be supportive. Not all kids are gifted athletes and that’s OK.     3    Recognize their hard work and achievements by treating them to enjoyable things like ice cream or a movie outing.

Make sports fun and let kids be kids. Keep in mind how a child’s mind works. Let them find the fun in sports and support them as they try new activities and explore their interests.    4    

Be present. The smallest action can have the largest impact (巨大影响).    5     Make it normal to show up for your kids. It’s an experience they

【推荐2】Helping Your Kids to Be Interested in Sports

Being active and moving is something that is so important for us all, especially for children.     1     However, some parents can feel shocked when they see that their child isn’t interested in sports. So how can you encourage them to have ago?

It is such a good idea to lead by example when you are a parent. This is true for a variety of aspects, but especially forgetting children involved in sport.     2     So you need to be someone who is interested and active, if you want any hope of them doing so too. If you lay on the couch all day then they will just learn to do that too.

    3     Although they can choose who they want to support, seeing your enthusiasm for a particular player or team can be just what is needed to start their journey. You could look for a team uniform store to get them a sports shirt with their name on for example, as well as see the team play at one of their games.     4    

If something is dull, it will be hard for children to be enthusiastic about it. This will make them resent(讨厌) it, which is not a good thing for later in life. If they show particular skill and learn to play sport, then more practice and training can come in.     5     When they can enjoy what they do, they will only see it as something fun to do, rather than what we as adults might see it as, such as a chore to burn calories.

Whatever sport your child chooses to play, encourage them and make it fun, and then it will be something that they will want to carry on doing as they go about the rest of their lives.