What are the benefits of children learning dance?

Nowadays, many parents pay special attention to their children's interests and hobbies, and let their children learn painting or piano when they are five or six years old. Once I saw a Latin dance class dancing on the street. It was full of children of a few years old, and they were dancing very happily. At that time, I was wondering what was the point of letting such a young child dance? What are the benefits of letting children dance from an early age?

Beautiful body shape: Children who are in a period of rapid growth and development can stand up straight and have a beautiful body shape through dance training (such as holding their chests high, heads up, and abdomens in), and can correct body problems such as hunchbacks and dangling shoulders.

Movement coordination: Dance requires the coordination of all parts of the body. Through the harmony of music and dance movements, movement coordination training can be achieved and children can have a better sense of rhythm.

Limb flexibility and agility: Due to regular practice of pressing the feet, splits, bending down, etc., children have good flexibility and agility.

Exercise perseverance: Training from the basics can cultivate their spirit of not being afraid of hardship and hone their strong will.

Improve physical fitness: Dancing requires a certain amount of physical exertion. Practicing it can promote children's appetite, enhance digestive function, improve body resistance, and reduce the chance of illness.

Improve cooperation ability and collective sense of honor: There are solo dance, duet dance and group dance. Only with tacit cooperation can a good performance be performed. This trains children's spirit of cooperation, cultivates the habit of consciously abiding by rules and discipline, and cultivates the concept of cooperation.

Cultivate aesthetic emotions: Dance expresses the inner world through music, movements, expressions, and postures, which allows children to be subtly influenced by artistic performances, love life, and appreciate and experience beauty.

Cultivate self-confidence: Dance performances can cultivate children's performance ability, make them less stage-frightened, more expressive, and enhance their self-confidence and better psychological quality.

Cultivate children's imagination: Dance is expressed through body shape, movements and eyes. The process of dancing can stimulate children's imagination and creativity, especially self-written and self-performed works, which can promote children's intellectual development.

It turns out that dancing has so many benefits. Parents’ choices are really wise. In fact, many things are beneficial to the cultivation of children. Parents can choose their children’s favorite hobbies according to their children’s own wishes. The children are still young, so parents don’t need to put too much pressure on them. What children need is a happy childhood.