從兒童運動邁向健康人生

Sports in Children towards Healthy Life

兒童運動的重要性如下：（1）刺激大腦成長與整合；（2）增進神經系統發展；（3）增強身體機能與免疫力；（4）提升情緒與社交能力；（5）增進親子關係；（6）改善特殊兒童發展問題。6歲前的動作刺激，為未來的學習能力奠下基礎。這段時間是腦部神經系統發展最快速的時期，身體的經驗和動作的刺激，為孩子打造健康的根基，也建立孩子自信的基礎。兒童運動得秉持以下原則：定時定量的運動習慣、兼顧趣味與運動效果、採合理漸進的運動量、重視運動過程而非結果、家長的陪伴是促進運動習慣養成的關鍵。現今台灣兒童運動有三大問題：運動量不足、運動強度不夠及家長缺乏運動習慣。運動不僅只是運動，更是一種教育模式，叫做體育。體育是『模擬人生』的一種教育。

Sports in children play a very important role in lifelong healthy life. The importance of children’s sports is self-evident, with the following six major items: 1. Stimulate brain growth and integration; 2. Improve the development of the nervous system; 3. Enhance physical function and immunity; 4. Improve emotional and social skills; 5. Enhance parent-child relationship; 6. Improve the developmental delay of special children. Motor stimulation before the age of 6 years can lay the foundation for future learning ability. The period between 0 and 6 years of age is the very fast development of the brain nervous system, and the stimulation of children’s physical experience and movements in this stage can not only create a healthy foundation for children, but also build the foundation of children’s self-confidence. The general direction of children’s sports adheres to the following five principles: regular and quantitative exercise habits, taking into account fun and exercise effects, adopting a reasonable and gradual amount of exercise, paying attention to the exercise process rather than the result, and the company of parents is the key to promoting the formation of exercise habits. However, there are three major problems with children’s sports in Taiwan: insufficient time, insufficient intensity, and lack of exercise habits by parents. Finally, sport is more than just sport. Sport is also an educational model called physical education. The reason why physical education exists in the education system is truly no substitute in the education system because sports is an education for“Life Simulator”.