TEAM SPORT

Team sports are about so much more than physical benefits. This is especially so when group sports activities are incorporated into a young person’s life.

• Team sports can teach you about the bigger picture. At some point in life, everyone goes through challenges.Team sports teach you about a sense of camaraderie and belonging to something bigger than yourself. When you play sports on a team, you quickly learn that every choice you make has impacts your teammates and your opponents! 

• Team sports can teach you to be decisive. Making choices can often be difficult. Playing team sports causes you to reason and come to a conclusion at a quicker pace than they might in their day to day life. As a bonus, making quick decisions can help you to develop a sense of self-confidence.

• Team sports can teach you to bounce-back.It’s always exciting to win in life. But sometimes the greater lessons come from your losses. If you play team sports for any amount of time, it is highly likely that they will experience their fair share of losses. Each of these losses are an opportunity for your child to learn about being gracious, moving on and trying again! 

• Team sports can teach you that failure is never final. Everyone experiences the consequences of a poor choice from time to time. Learning from your failure can feel like an impossible feat when it is something you have never experienced before. But team sports teach that great comebacks really do happen and failure is never final if you refuse to give up!

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