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How Gymnastics Can Teach Children Real World Skills

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  How Gymnastics Can Teach Children  Real Worl d  Skills   While gymnastics might just seem like a sport about swinging on bars and doing flips, sports can teach children real world skills, turning them into successful adults. In the course of a gymnast’s sporting career, he or she will be provided with an educational buffet beyond biology and artistic athleticism. Their learning includes physics, teamwork, patience, nutritional science, physical and psychological toughness, planning, social skills, and work-life balance, to name a few.   In fact, in 2015 the Harvard School of Education released a research project titled, “ Why Your Kid Should Do Gymnastics if You Want Them to Develop the Kind of Character That Helps Them Succeed at School “ . Despite its long title, the outcome was simple. The study of more than 4,000 young adults in the UK found the most important characteristic to predict a child’s success is grit . Grit – or determination, cour...
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How Gymnastics Classes for Children Can Reduce Stress We know that exercise helps reduce stress and anxiety, and makes us happier overall. Experts have found that being physically fit produces endorphins (feel-good neurotransmitters in our brain), reduces stress hormones (like adrenaline and cortisol), improves self-esteem, helps us sleep better, and encourages mindfulness. Gymnastics is a really fun and accessible sport for children of all ages to enjoy these stress-reducing benefits, plus other amazing physical benefits like improved coordination, motor skills, balance, strength, agility, and flexibility. Gymnastic also helps children learn important social skills like following directions, listening, taking turns, learning independence, respecting others, and getting along with teammates. Gymnastics is the foundation of all individual sports and physical activity. “Gymnastics helps to develop a kinaesthetic awareness much better than any other activity. Kinaesthetic aw...
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           Why Gymnastics is important for children Parents often enrol their children in gymnastics hoping they will be the next Olympic gymnastics star...and may be they will! But more likely than not, their time in the sport won’t be on such a worldwide stage. However, that doesn’t mean that if your child never wins a gold medal there is nothing to be gained from participating in the sport.  From the very first day they step foot on the floor, children gain so much from the sport of gymnastics. Even if a child never makes it past the first level, they will learn lifelong lessons. Here are just a few.  1. Commitment Even if their class is just once a week, they learn the meaning of commitment. Gymnastics class is somewhere children go regularly, and they get used to going there at the same day and time every week. When they sign up, they are committing to going to every class, or at least most of them. From the first class to the la...
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PARTIES AT EARLS GYMNASTICS

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PARTIES AT EARLS GYMNASTICS EVER THOUGHT OF HAVING A GYMNASTICS OR JUNGLE GYM PARTY? Earls Gymnastic Centre has a fantastic facility which could be exclusively yours to make your child's party one to remember. We can offer all the gymnastics equipment for birthday parties, including bars, vaults, beams, foam filled pits, trampoline and our fast track as well as all our stay and play equipment if suitable for the age of the party. Or even our purpose-built Jungle Gym themed soft play area. We cater for complete beginners to advanced performers.
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