The formative years of a child is very important, every child will have a talent, the way we go about it is very important, in child
The formative years of a child is very important, every child will have a talent, the way we go about it is very important, in child education, three aspects which includes Cognitive, affective and psycho-motor will definitely play a big role in child growth and development, this is the level that determines the traits and features in child’s growth both physically and psychologically, this happens to be the best time to notice some of these talents and nurture into greatness, most of the world class athletes are discovered at this stage. Age plays a major role in sports, though there could be some other factors, but age serves as the total determinant in performance. A sport like Gymnastics, swimming, athletics, football and others needs early discovery supported with good coaching. Parents plays a major role in observing some of these talents, home serves as the first agent of socialisation and immediately a child is discovered, it behooves the parents to do the needful by giving the child the necessary supports and exposure. Parents in western nations now create more time in nurturing the talents of their children by taking to sports academies within their domain and I think that is the habit our parents needs to inculcate by creating more precious time for their words. The government also need to provide the basic sports infrastructures in order to enhance the development of these talent, there are some techniques that ought to be taught and learn at the tender stage of sports development which can be characterised by good facilities, equipment and coaching, once the highlighted factors are missing, rarely can we discover a great talents and that is the major reason why many of our athlete are not doing well abroad. Our sports programme should be tailored towards combining education with sports, many parents don’t want their children to participate in sports due to the fear of losing their education to sports because there is life after sports and that is why education is very vital.