Child Development Through Sports

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Summary: Child development through sports
Review: Professor James H Humphrey from the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland has been active in the subject of children and sports for the last 60 years and authored many books.
This book has nine chapters: overview of child development, health as a factor in child development, stress, children's sports, objectives of children's sports, physical development, social-, emotional- and intellectual development.
Children and youth are physical with a love for play, but somehow our society is not always facilitating and the growing number of children with obesity a statement that physical play and activity have been replaced by time in front of the TV, video games and the internet, while eating junk food.
In this book both parents, coaches, professionals and others involved with children will find good information based on normal child development for which age children should begin playing organized sports and which sports are good for children in order to develop social, emotional, physical and intellectual capabilities.

Geula Merrick, CDA, BA (Psych)
Child development specialist, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [e-mail]

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [e-mail]