Children's gymnastics
Children's gymnastics is a collective term for an area of gymnastics especially for young people. Depending on the age, different methods are offered that playfully promote motor skills and self-awareness, enable social contacts and serve to prevent sedentary lifestyle. In the member clubs of the German Gymnastics Federation , around 1.7 million children are cared for nationwide.
By implementing certain principles of action, a long-term change from taking part and playing along to self-determined action should be achieved: openness, encouraging character, voluntariness, informality, choice / possibility of decision, possibility of initiative. The social goals include perceiving the feelings and needs of others, recognizing and observing rules, the ability to integrate into groups, dealing with failure, building consideration and tolerance.
The German Sports Youth awarded in 2006 for the first time the future price - More exercise for children realize at 10 clubs, who work especially for children. Promotion of physical activity in young children is part of various institutions such as health insurance companies, gymnastics and sports associations and other organizations.
Subdivision
Age-appropriate development requires the goals and methods to be adapted to the inclinations and needs of the children. It is important to support the natural urge to move and to build on existing skills.
There are crawling groups and the Prague Parent-Child Program ( PEKiP ) for babies of the first age .
Parent-child gymnastics
The 1 to 3-year-old children are accompanied by their mother and / or father and experience their first movements and children's songs and rhymes in unfamiliar surroundings with people they know. Recognizing and observing other children also supports the development of social skills. The rough coordination is developed playfully. Later, movement landscapes encourage motor skills , a sense of balance and the fun of climbing. Variety and diversity stimulate curiosity and the desire to discover something new.
Toddler gymnastics
Without their parents, children between the ages of 3 and 6 are encouraged to move around and expand their range of action. Coordination is refined, social interaction experiences new areas as language development progresses. They playfully learn the basic forms of gymnastics such as somersaults and rolls. Besides balls, jump rope, tires, etc. classical gymnastic equipment like coming box , wall bars , bars , trampoline or balance beam used.
Children's gymnastics
For girls and boys from 6 years. The basic skills of everyday forms of movement are learned and can be refined through a wide range of offers. With the development of active language and understanding, learning is now faster and on multiple levels. Is practiced z. B. the perception of one's own posture and the improvement of already learned skills. It is possible to take part in gymnastics competitions to compete with others.
Children's gymnastics congress
Under the motto Moving Children, the multi-day children's gymnastics congress takes place around every two years on the campus of the University of Karlsruhe . The event offers specialist speakers and interested parties a platform for exchange and further training in workshops. "The aim of the congress is to raise awareness that exercise, nutrition, play and sport are important resources for child and youth development that need to be integrated into everyday life."
The patronage for the 2009 congress was taken over by Dr. Ursula von der Leyen (then Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth) and Ilse Aigner (then Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection).
- 2004 Moving children - ways out of the inertia trap
- 2007 Moving children - using energies
- 2009 Moving children - eating better - syn (energy) energy
- 2011 Moving children - using energies
- 2013 Moving children - using energies
- 2015 Moving Children - How do we get children and young people moving
- 2017 Moving children - How do we get children going?
Web links
- Official website of the German Gymnastics Youth for children's gymnastics
- Children's gymnastics congress of the University of Karlsruhe
See also
- Competitive sports (children in competitive sports)
- Mother-child group
Individual evidence
- ^ Children in the DTB Deutscher Turnerbund
- ↑ Teaching aid for the children's gymnastics campaign. (PDF file 609 KB) (No longer available online.) Deutsche Turnerjugend dtj, pp. 4–5 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 25, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Future award “Realizing more movement for children” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. awarded, German Sports Youth
- ↑ Partnership with the Association for Gymnastics and Leisure ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AOK Hamburg
- ↑ Children need exercise Barmer substitute fund
- ↑ Promotion of physical activity and health for children ( memento of the original from May 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sports youth Hessen dsj
- ^ Small children professional association of paediatricians e. V.
- ↑ Our children - parents' guide for healthy child development from 1–6 years. (PDF file 2.04 MB) Federal Center for Health Education BZgA, October 2008, pp. 30, 45, 59 , accessed on May 6, 2009 .
- ↑ Flyer Kinderturnkongress 2009. (PDF file 306 kB) (No longer available online.) University of Karlsruhe (TH), Institute for Sport and Sport Science, p. 2 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 13, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
