Let’s dance
Dancing is a great activity for children to help not only with their fitness but their cognitive development and personal growth too.
There are the obvious benefits of studying dance including reduced obesity, a fun source of exercise, healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and helping to maintain a balanced lifestyle.
There is clinically significant evidence that children who participate actively in the performing arts spend less time sitting in front of a computer screen playing games and therefore are at less of a risk of developing health problems.
And while dance is a good source of fun exercise for young children, it is also a creative outlet.
Fun exercise is important, but the opportunity to release creativity is as important as exercising and maintaining a balanced diet in the development of healthy children, because of the life skills they will learn.
Dancing can make a person feel physically refreshed and improves their mood, tackling issues including anxiety and depression.
Group dancing is a tool to release daily stress, a distraction from everyday worries and an outlet for imagination and emotion.
There are physical benefits of partaking in dance classes as a child.
Through dance, children develop a greater range of movement whilst developing the ability to work within different spaces. They learn to interpret the effect their movement has on the world around them.
Dancing also improves a child’s coordination, especially at a time when they are rapidly developing in an ever-changing and evolving environment.
Good co- ordination is vital in developing skills learnt in other parts of life, such as learning to ride a bike and learning how to multitask successfully.
It also develops strength and endurance from an early age and this creates a solid platform for the child’s physical development and level of fitness.
Learning to socialise with others from a young age is also a vital part of a child’s cognitive development and dance classes are a great way to learn this among their peers.