Being out and about is fun and also promotes motor skills.
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Many girls and boys today lack basic motor skills because they don’t move enough. It’s also up to the parents.
KIndians can do a lot today. They speak their first words of English at primary school age, write their names before the first day of school and type around on their parents’ smartphones as if they had never done anything else. Cognitively, many children are very advanced today and are encouraged at an early age. They are mobile in the head, but what about the rest of the body?
If you ask around in sports clubs and schools, trainers and teachers tell you about children who can no longer balance or jump backwards, who are afraid of heights and squint their eyes in shock when a ball flies at them. And educators have not only been observing this since the pandemic and the lockdown. “In the last 20 to 30 years there has been a deterioration in sports motor skills, you can see that very clearly,” says Daniel Möllenbeck, Vice President of the German Sports Teachers’ Association.
