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Mom, you only want the best for your child. You nurture their every need and sacrifice your own needs to build a good foundation for them, giving your child the confidence to reach for the stars.
The more I practice, the luckier I get
Your four-year-old can practice ball skills in many exciting ways.
Kicking: Show your child how to run towards a ball and kick it towards a target without stopping first. They can practice running and kicking a slow-moving ball. Your child will start getting good at kicking at about 4 ½ years of age.
Catching: Typical three-year-olds catch a tennis ball with their elbows bent in front of their bodies. In contrast, four-year-olds usually learn to keep their elbows nearer to their sides. They also now enjoy practicing to catch a larger ball that is bounced in their direction.
Throwing: Most four-year-olds are ready to learn how to “underhand” throw a tennis ball towards a target. They also enjoy learning how to throw it so that it hits the floor once before hitting the wall.
Having a ball
Ball play is very beneficial to a child’s development. There are two main reasons why we should play ball with our children from early on.
Firstly, ball play helps to develop important skills that impact a young child’s development in many practical ways.
Consider the following:
Secondly, learning to control a ball is a necessary part of developing “movement literacy”.
Nobody needs to teach a typical child how to walk, bend over to pick something up, or climb a flight of stairs. Why? Because these skills are necessary for survival and acquiring them is built into the human DNA.
On the other hand, many of the task-specific skills that your child is going to need to play sports are learnt.
Skills such as jumping over hurdles, handling balls and somersaulting are learnt. They do not happen automatically. The only way to master them is to be taught, followed by lots of practice until the technique becomes second nature.
The good news is that we can prepare our children for success in any kind of sport by teaching them a set of fundamental movement skills.
These skills are recognised worldwide as the building blocks of movement and the “alphabet of movement literacy.” They include locomotor and non-locomotor (stabilisation) skills. Encourage your child to roll, balance, slide, jog, run, leap, jump, hop, dodge, gallop and skip.
Ball skills teach object control and can be learnt by bouncing, throwing, catching, kicking and striking balls.
There you go! Now, where’s that ball?
Tip: Alternatives to balls
If your child does not yet enjoy playing with balls, bear in mind that smaller and heavier balls are more difficult to catch as they require better timing and faster tracking skills.
So, to provide more opportunities for success, put the soccer and tennis balls aside for a while and play catch with balloons, beach balls, foam balls or bean bags instead.
Also, demonstrate how to throw a tennis ball like a cricket bowler (with an overarm action). Show your child how to grip the ball firmly in the dominant hand, touch it to their ear. Next, they must step forward with the foot opposite to the throwing hand while straightening their arm to cast it forward.
Mom, you only want the best for your child. You nurture their every need and sacrifice your own needs to build a good foundation for them, giving your child the confidence to reach for the stars.
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As you know, your child has a little tummy, and needs small, frequent meals throughout the day. Mom, we know it’s stressful trying to figure out what nourishing foods to give them, as children need the right amount of nutrients to support their growth and development.