Choreography for dusting. How to organise sport at home?

Sport is not just physical exercise. It’s also a lesson in patience and teamwork. We now have limited opportunities to do sport, but we can still come up with ways to exercise. You can create your own home disciplines, express yourself in an unusual way by means of movement and thus develop your strengths. And work well as a team!

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Let’s not forget about every-day physical activity (Tatiana Jachyra /Kulczyk Foundation)
Let’s not forget about every-day physical activity (Tatiana Jachyra /Kulczyk Foundation)

Home sports   

Cleaning is a great way to do physical activity at home. There are people who love cleaning. They have their own ways of placing things on shelves or polishing tiles in the bathroom. Maybe your child also likes to have their things in a specific order? Or, when they’re dusting, they create a dance routine? Sometimes small everyday activities are the ones you can express yourself with. Play charades with ordinary chores. You can hum, make various gestures, role-play. It is important that you present the activity in a way that suggests that you really enjoy performing it. You might also create your own home sport disciplines. What can individual household members become masters of? What could be your unique team sport? 

Strengths of sport  

Sport is also a good starting point for discussing the strengths and uniqueness of each of us. And cooperation! Do you do any sport? Perhaps you’re an avid supporter of a certain team or you watch some athlete’s achievements with bated breath? Even if not, your child or other member of your family might love sport.   

Talk about athletes and teams you know. What skills are necessary to practise a given discipline? Does everyone have the same predispositions and skills? When talking to the youngest members of the household, you may point out that each of us has skills in a particular field. These may be artistic abilities, achievements in sport or science. Each of us has certain predispositions which make us unique. If we told someone who does boxing to do ski jumping, it would be practically impossible, because jumpers have to be lightweight. Similarly, if we had a ski jumper play basketball or box, it would be difficult for him to shoot hoops or beat a player who plays this sport.  

 

Your strengths

Each of us is good at something. Think about what you’re good at, what skills or qualities do you have. If you do any sport, talk to your child about what it requires from you, regularity? Readiness to get up every day while others are still asleep? Or maybe paying attention to what other people on the team are doing? Talk about what you do to keep fit and what you learn from it.

All source materials are prepared by the team of Kulczyk Foundation’s Education Department in cooperation with teachers and experts – pedagogists, psychologists and cultural experts – and verified by an experienced family therapist Kamila Becker. Kinga Kuszak, PhD, Professor of Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Educational Studies, provides content-related supervision over Kulczyk Foundation’s educational materials. All materials are covered by the content patronage of the Faculty of Educational Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University.

The article was published on 06.04.2020 on the website of Instytut Dobrego Życia (Good Life Institute)

Authors: Dorota Szkodzińska (Kulczyk Foundation) and Anna Woźniak (Instytut Dobrego Życia)