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Importance of games
Sports and games play a vital role in children’s mental and physical development.
Games help children to improve their concentration. Children learn to follow
the rules and become disciplined.
Games help to improve the ability to accept challenges. Children are taught to
accept failures with a positive attitude. They develop the ability to accept defeat.
At the same time, they learn how to connect all their skills.
Children communicate through games and make friends. They learn to work
together as a team, irrespective of caste or gender. Moral values such as honesty,
punctuality, and responsibility are also taught through games.
Many indoor games teach children how to deal with problems. They help to
strengthen the brain and increase memory power.
Think &
Answer Do you play with all the children in your neighbourhood? Has someone stopped you
from playing with specific children?
Outdoor games improve children’s health as they provide plenty
of fun activities. Sitting in the early sunlight improves the body’s
production of vitamin D.
Find It What is vitamin D? What happens if
Out we don’t have enough Vitamin D?
Games played at school
Children play several games in school. Outdoor games include football,
basketball, throwball, tennis, kho-kho, and cricket.
football tennis cricket
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