When kids participate in sports, the benefits go far beyond the athletic field, as any lockdown-weary parent will tell you. Kids can burn off excess energy or relieve the cries of boredom.
Sporty kids feel better and have higher levels of concentration than kids who don’t participate in sports. And this means they’re more likely to get the top grades needed to enter selective schools at the age of 11, reveals a sub-cohort study in Bavaria from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
