At Sportball we ensure that our coaches are passionate, professional, and certified. Our coaches not only have an array of sport backgrounds and value being physical active; they also love working with children. When coaches join the Sportball team, they begin an in-depth coach education and certification program that promotes consistent standards and practices across […]
1) Every child develops according to his/her own rhythm Every child attends the program with his/her unique physical and social ability. At this stage of development, a few months makes the world of difference. Guide your child according to their abilities and not according to those of the future Michael Jordan or that of a
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Organized sport programs are evolving and being promoted not only as outlets to be physically active, but as arenas to teach children important life and social skills. While there are countless sport and physical activity programs around to choose from, they each vary to the extent that they successfully achieve both of these objectives. At
Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines1 indicate that toddlers and preschoolers should be physically active over the course of the day, through a variety of formats in different environments. Traditionally, these environments included children’s back yards, neighbourhood streets, or local parks. However, growing mistrust over the safety of neighborhood spaces and of children playing unsupervised has led
Organized sport has the potential to offer both short and long-term benefits to participants – making it an attractive leisure activity to families with young kids. However, sport participation is at times controversial, when achieving elite performance and success in sport (i.e., being the ‘best’ or winning), takes precedence over children’s inherent enjoyment. We are
Health practitioners recommend regular physical activity to individuals of all ages, as physical activity has a plethora of benefits to individual health and well-being. Encouraging children to be active from a young age creates positive physical activity habits, and increases the likelihood they will continue to be active as they grow older. Subsequently, according to
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