Rock climbing and youth physical and mental development

In Europe and America, more and more primary and secondary schools have introduced rock climbing in physical education because many evidences show that the physical and mental development patterns of children and adolescents tend to have a significant impact on adult behavior, while rock climbing is a lot of An excellent tool for physical and mental development training recognized by educational experts.

For example, Ms. Wang Shuzheng, chief of the functional treatment technology of Wanfang Hospital’s rehabilitation department, mentioned in an article published in the newspaper “The Trend of Skin Contact and Brain Development”: “... according to statistics, there are about 10-15% of children in Taiwan. There are problems with poor sensory experience,.........Infants and toddlers with poor sensory experience often experience learning or mood disturbances.... Positive sensory experiences can lead to positive development of baby personality and intelligence: ...feeling insensitive Children usually have a slow response, development and inflexibility of small muscle movements, and weak ability to learn and distinguish the brain.... Parents should make proper use of our natural environment, including sunbathing, swimming, playing, taking the gravel road, climbing Activities, etc., to allow children to accept different touch, do not deprive the child to accept the tactile experience and learning opportunities. "It is visible in children growing up, so that they engage in climbing activities, will be able to help their brains to carry out more effective learning activities, and Climbing is the most intimate dialogue between the human body and the rocks of nature. The children's hands touch the surface of the rock with their hands and feet, looking for cracks or handle points, and let the body Balanced on the rocks, this is the most interesting positive sensory exposure experience.

In addition, all the children in elementary school have their physical growth changed almost every day, and their limbs have grown longer. The brain still stays in the impression of yesterday. The brain ordered the hand to take the cup, thinking that it would be enough to extend it by 30 centimeters. I did not expect that the hand had become longer, so the cup was knocked over. Children in this period often wrestled and knocked over things, which was not what they wanted, but problems with mind-body-coordination. Rock climbing is the best kind of exercise to improve this phenomenon, because on the rock wall, the eyes hold the point, hands and feet must coordinate and grasp, in order to allow the body to move on the rock wall, through continuous practice, the children Can fully understand the physical changes at each stage, and then more effective control of their own actions.

As for the psychological impact of climbing on teenagers, the effect is even greater. In advanced countries, education authorities have long understood that appropriate risk-taking activities are compulsory courses for cultivating sound personalities. Therefore, starting from elementary school, they arrange “adventurous education programs” within the curriculum to encourage young people to face challenges, overcome difficulties and cultivate In spite of the frustration and courageous spirit of climbing, climbing is often used by schools because of its convenience (using artificial rock yards that can be implemented on campus) and its irritating (safe and challenging) nature. An effective tool for adventure education. In contrast, young people and friends in our country are not encouraged to engage in any risk-taking activities, especially if there are dangerous factors in any activity in the school. Basically, they are not welcome by the teachers. This may facilitate student management and reduce the chance of accidents. Relatively overprotected students, when they encounter difficulties in school work or life, have no ability to respond. Because of this, it is an important task for the education community to introduce some safe and controllable adventure activities such as rock climbing within the system.

Looking at the status quo in Shenzhen, Shenzhen's Liucheng children have "heart disease". The main manifestations are too many movements, too slow speech speed, eating picky eaters, and restless sleep. A recent infant health screening conducted by the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Luohu District shows that the preschool children in Shenzhen have relatively outstanding psychological development and behavior problems. About 67% of children have mental health problems to varying degrees, far higher than other major cities in China.

Recently, the child mental health specialist of the Luohu District Maternal and Child Health Hospital conducted psychological surveys on preschool children aged 3 to 6 years in Luohu District by sending questionnaires to parents and kindergarten teachers. A total of nearly 9,000 valid questionnaires were retrieved. Copies.

Through the analysis of the questionnaires, Gong Jianhua, Chief Physician, who has been engaged in the clinical treatment and research of children's mental health care for 16 years, concluded that: 67.4% of children generally have mental health problems in different degrees, and averages in other large cities in China. The incidence of 30 to 50% is much higher than the incidence; in individual kindergartens, the ratio is as high as 90 to 92%; according to the order of incidence, the top five are: behavioral issues account for 25.8 %, mood disorders accounted for 21.3%, language dysplasia accounted for 17.2%, eating disorders accounted for 16%, sleep disorders accounted for 6.7%.

It is understood that close to 9,000 cases of children's psychological and behavioral screening samples are rare in Shenzhen and can truly reflect the mental health of preschool children in Shenzhen. About 15% of young children with mental and behavioral problems discovered during the screening process have reached the point where they must be treated. The process of correcting mental and behavioral problems is very complicated, and the sooner they are discovered and treated early, the better.

The top five among the top five psychological problems is behavioral problems, and climbing training is precisely an important means of correcting behavioral problems. Through eight of them we have built a climbing wall school (China University of Geosciences, Shanghai). Findings from Foreign Languages ​​University, Zhuhai Campus of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong Experimental Middle School, Nanning, Guangxi, Ningxia Middle School, Guangxi Normal University Affiliated Foreign Language School, Jiangsu Jiangyin No. 1 Middle School, Chongqing People's Elementary School), climbing training is popular with students It has helped the normal development of the psychological behavior of young people and young children.