S16/W4 | Children Vs Extracurricular Activities

Hello everyone, how are you all so far? I hope and sure enough, your days are all running by and filled with useful things. It's nice that I rediscovered the theme of the contest that suits my profession as a teacher so that what I outlined was by the field I was pursuing. Here is my participation, I hope there is a benefit.

Do you know that there is one important thing when educating children in their growing years, this is not only in the academic field as the only way that a child can achieve. But there are other areas beyond academics that we can grow and develop from the potential that your children have, this can be related to physical health (physical growth) and also Mental children.

For example, the field of Sports requires good physical growth, as well as the field of art that requires good mental practice. Although both sports and Arts must have good physical and mental health, the goal is that children's potential can be explored in many areas of expertise. This is where extracurricular activities are needed both at school and outside school, an important role in the participation of children in certain extracurriculars by their skills can encourage them to excel outside the academic field.

If referring to the meaning, then children's extracurricular activities are activities that are organized or followed by children outside of school hours, this activity has a composition of programs that are focused on the field to be achieved and expected.

Extracurricular activities are generally carried out in schools outside of class hours, although certain subjects used to be extracurriculars which are now compulsory subjects in schools due to their great benefits in helping the physical and mental growth of children, extracurricular examples are scouts.

According to research by many observers extracurricular education can help physical and mental growth causing children can be trained in responsible attitudes, discipline, cooperation, and socializing with many people. So the main purpose of extracurriculars is to form a good personal character in society, which in the process can determine the interests and talents of children in certain fields they master. Efforts to achieve this encourage children to gain knowledge and experience directly from the extracurricular, to help foster and especially mental growth of children.

Extracurricular activities are a means for parents to direct and explain to their children about the talents they have, with these explanations it is expected that children can feel confident that there are talents and interests in them. As far as I know as a teacher, there is still a compulsion for children sourced from parents to attend certain extracurriculars. But this circumstance is equal to the number of students who like extracurriculars of their own free will, that is, without coercion. However the problem arises when parents are not very supportive of extracurriculars that do not meet their expectations, and this is the wrong way to support children to follow extracurriculars.

As long as the extracurricular activities that children want do not interfere with the mandatory schedule of academic lessons, and do not interfere with health caused by certain diseases and restrictions, then parents must support and provide space for children to develop their interests.

From my explanation above, it can be concluded that extracurricular an activity that are considered important and necessary for children, especially students at school or outside school, many benefits are obtained from extracurricular activities. Among others :

1. Train responsibility, discipline, and also cooperation.
2. Channeling energy from the body as well as creating creativity.
3. As a place or way to hone talents, ask for hobbies in yourself.
4. Forming a character or personality.
5. Make it easy for children to socialize.
6. And lastly can improve performance.

As far as I can see from the point of view of a teacher, then many extracurriculars have good potential for children. Indeed, this is personal because different regions and different countries then differently see what activities are suitable to be developed through extracurricular activities. Then the best at the moment in my opinion is :

1. Extracurricular activities in olahara.
2. Extracurricular activities in the religious field.
3. Extracurricular Scouts, youth Red Cross, and marching line often called Paskibra in Indonesian materials.
4. Extracurricular Arts, whether music, theater or choir.

In the end, it concludes that extracurricular activities are something important, extracurricular can form character, and interests and increase confidence in relationships between people or in other words facilitate how to socialize with the environment.

I invite, @waterjoe, @lil.albab, @josepha, @mayasari95, and @karianaporras to participate, best regards to all of you.