Steemit Engagement Challenge / S16/W4 - "Children Vs Extracurricular Activities "

Happy Sunday to all my estimable Steemians, hope you are good today. My appreciation to Hindwhale Community for putting this interesting contest. Thanks a lot to everyone reading my post.

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How can extracurricular activities help children's physical and mental growth?

Extracurricular activities are helpful to children's physical and mental growth in so many ways. Extracurricular activities are non-academic activities. They are the things children are engaged with outside their academics pursuit, it has the ability to shape and develop the child mentally. It also improves the child's physical fitness, this is because it naturally may engage the child on things that might stretch the body (body exercise).

It also improves the child by adding knowledge and skills which may be helpful to him/her in the future. It also connect you to friends and the competition among them also has a major contribution to their mental growth.

Do today's children like extracurricular activities, or are they forced to participate by their parents?

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Yes of course! Children naturally are in love with extracurricular activities, as a matter of fact you barely differentiate between their hobbies and curricular activities. The excitement you see on the child during these activities is unmatchable with academic activities.

You can force a child to go to school on a day that is totally engaged on academic activities but on sport day because of the excitement they do derived from their choosen activity he will willingly go without being force.

Is extracurricular activity necessary for children?

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Extracurricular activities are very necessary for children, the skills possessed by it is something to be reckon with. Extracurricular activities has the ability to introduce the child into the world of creativity. It do make children creative and can also develop the child's inner and hidden abilities, harnessing such abilities for future use.

Which are the best extracurricular activities for today's children?

I think in this context, what is best activity for one might not be for another. To my own view what is best is best for an individual best on his likes which may not apply to everyone. But in my country I think the below are likely to be among the best extracurricular activities for today's children:

1. Music
2. Dancing
3. Sports
4. Sketching
5. Creative art

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