The importance of extracurricular activities in early years

Extracurricular activities show many benefits from helping children build strong relationships with their friends, socialization, and health benefits. When the child explores different hobbies, it will help them better understand themselves learn their interests, and desires and figure out their talents as well as keep them busy in what rewards their life and achievements in the long run.

A child can benefit a lot when engaging in extracurricular activities, like time management, and commitments, and learning these skills could be very useful for the rest of the child’s life. In order to find passion in sports, music, and others, being exposed to various activities is crucial. While exercising these hobbies, self-confidence, and esteem will be built. Furthermore, when children are involved in such activities that include teamwork and goals, will build strong personalities, and self-confidence and will gain different skills later in their life. It is very important and beneficial to teach children to have a specific goal in their early years because setting goals can highly affect the confidence and motivation of a child. Studies show that a child involved in activities has a tendency to get better academics than a child who spends his/her time watching television and using electronics since it definitely affects his/her social life in terms of building relations and having friends. In Dubai, nurseries and preschools include extracurricular activities as options to entertain children and to let them benefit in different ways.

Miles of Smiles offers a variety of extracurricular activities options that children can get involved in based on their interests and age. Children can experience Ballet, Karate, Kiddie Gym, Football, and Musical Movement. All these activities have allowed them to create links between themselves and to develop their agility sense of rhythm, coordination, their precision, team spirit, interactions, and their passion.

For us, it is essential that the children try out different sports in order to find the one that best suits their personality, as it is our duty to build a love of sport and the desire to practice regular physical activity in children from a very early age so it becomes a healthy habit which impacts their health and physical status later on.

So, in order to discover their interests and passions, make sure your child is involved in extracurricular activities!