Childcare Report: Benefits of Exercise, Activities, and Adaptations

This report delves into the significant advantages of physical activity for children, highlighting its role in improving both mental and physical health, reducing risks of diseases, and promoting overall development. The main body outlines the benefits, including improved brain function, emotional well-being, and physical strength. It also explores various physical activities suitable for different age groups, from arm and leg exercises for infants to running and cycling for older children, and provides suggestions on how these activities can be adapted to suit different needs. The report emphasizes the importance of parental involvement and awareness in fostering healthy habits and ensuring the child's well-being. It concludes by reiterating the importance of physical activity in children's lives and promoting healthy behavior for the long-term development of children.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Explaining benefits of exercise for children's.............................................................................1
Activities for children to exercise ..............................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing
several diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease and also provide long
term healthy benefits. The report will cover benefits of exercise for children and in order to
develop and improve physical as well as brain growth. Different types of physical activities for
various age group children to develop and improve will be discussed in this report.
MAIN BODY
7.1 Explaining benefits of exercise for children's
It can be said that physical activity is important for all the people in order to make their
life healthy and effective. Physical activities help children, adults and old age people to keep
their body strong and healthy by improving mental and physical health by reducing depression,
pain, loneliness and anxiety (Bassok, Fitzpatrick and Loeb, 2014). Regular use of physical
activity will help children to develop in a range of ways. It also improves brain functions and
emotional well being of of child.
Benefits of activity for physical health
Regular physical activity helps children to develop his or her movement skills to become
more stronger which builds strong muscles and healthy heart. This will also help to maintain
body fat and weight. Moderate intensity exercises can even helps to relieve some chronic (long-
term) pain condition by maintaining physical functions and decreasing fatigue. It will also help
ease symptom of premenstrual syndrome in girls. Moderate exercise will help body to produce
endorphins hormones which is good for health (Wansink and Brumberg, 2016). It can be said
that these are the natural painkillers which helps to release pressure and keeps children in happy
mood effectively.
Improve relationship: There are some children mostly live alone and unable to make
friends that physical activities can helps them by providing sense of companionship and
belonging. Children with social anxiety might feel alone and find difficulties to be in a group
environment. Sport is one of the best activity for children in order to reduce their pressure of
study and also maintain growth and development effectively. This will also help to build
relationship ship with other students which will help to feel free and improve relationship status
of children mind.
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Improve body and brain: when a children see something different such as dancing,
jumping, walking, running and playing, they are more likely to do that which helps to develop
their body and brain. Sport is a sector where children uses both his or her brain and physic in
order to give best performance. It is important for parents to develop awareness as early as
possible to promote healthy body and brain through their own behaviour effectively (Black,
Matvienko‐Sikar and Kearney, 2017). In addition to this, there are some different things such as
healthy food, juice, vegetables and fruits that will help to recover the bad health of any person.
This will also help to develop brain that Almond is one of the best and effective protein.
Exercise helps in development of heart: If children participate in sport or any other
physical activity their heart will circulate more fresh blood. This will enhance the blood
circulation rate and child heart will remain healthy.
Development of lungs: The blood vessels and lung cells develop and change to increase
the amount of surface area available for oxygen to get into the blood. This prepares baby's lungs
to breathe outside the womb.
In order to enhance the physical ability of the child, it is essential for care providers to focus on
their eating and sleeping patterns as it helps to make sure that individuals may not get any type of
diseases.
Development of bones: Bones are considered to be the framework for child’s growing
body. It is a living tissue that constantly changes when bit of old bone getting removed. 18 and
above is considered to be the age in which bone fully develop, it reaches its maximum density
and strength.
7.2 Activities for children to exercise
Exercise/
Activity
Childr
en
Involve
d
Age Equipment
Required
How activities can
be adopted
How activities can
be adapted
Arm and Leg
exercise
1 6-12
Months
Baby massage Oil Parents should take
the responsibility
to make their child
perform the
By making precise
time schedule
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activity.
Movement
Songs and
Fun Indoor
2 1-3
Years
Songs for Kids,
Ball, Pedal tricycle
Play school
teachers should
take up this
activity for
children.
By allowing
children to
participate.
Running and
Cycling
2 3-6
Years
Cycle and Running
equipment (Jarrett,
2018).
Both parents and
teachers should get
involved in making
children perform
these activities.
By motivating
children through
rewards.
Arm and Leg exercise: Arm and leg exercise is very important for children between ages of 6 to
12 months. It is just because they are not able to do this with own. Parents are responsible for
daily massage of their children with the use of baby massage oil which helps to develop growth
and build them strong (Leitner, 2017). This will also help to improve physical strength which
lead towards faster growth of brain. In order to adapt the activity, parents must interact with their
child and with the help of baby oil, massage them in their arms and legs to make them more
effective. It must be done in daily routine so that child and parents can adapt to activities.
Movement Songs and Fun Indoor: Children between age of 1-3 years requires some
equipments such as ball, mini cycle, songs to dance and move body etc. this will help to them to
understand various things as they make different activities (Bünning, 2015). In this age, children
learn from practical things that parents should spend time with their children in order to provide
learnings. There should be a criteria for children such as playing in home not outside. Monitoring
is required as possible as much time in order to ensure safety and security. Time table must be
created by teachers and followed by students so that they can adapt to the exercise.
Running and Cycling: Children age between 3 to 6 years are mostly mischievous and
naughty. Different activities such as cycling and running, playing sport will also help them to
learn something different which helps towards growth and development (Almqvist and
Duvander, 2014). Sport is one of the best activity for children in order to reduce their pressure of
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study and also maintain growth and development effectively. Parents should keep watch on their
children activities in order to ensure they learn right things not wrong. This will help to manage
behaviour of children in a right manner which develop positive energy effectively. To make
children adaptable, parents must teach them how to ride bicycle and join them so that their
enthusiasm can be increase.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above analysis that physical activity is one of most
important thing in human life in order to keep their body strong and healthy by improving mental
and physical health by reducing depression, pain, loneliness and anxiety. This will also help
children and adults to improve and develop their skill as well as healthy physic. There are
different types of physical activities for different age group children which should be followed
by parents in order to improve physical standard and knowledge. Sport is one of the best activity
for children in order to reduce their pressure of study and also maintain growth and development
effectively. It is important for parents to develop awareness as early as possible to promote
healthy body and brain through their own behaviour.
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Bünning, M., 2015. What happens after the ‘daddy months’? Fathers’ involvement in paid work,
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Jarrett, T., 2018. Childcare:" 30 hours" of free childcare–eligibility, access codes and charges
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