A Study On The Influence Of Table Tennis On The Harmonious Development Of Children 's Physical And Mental

Being an important international event, Table tennis is also popular with children.Playing Table tennis is a good way to promote children’s physical health, whichcontributes to children’s harmonious development of children’s physical and mentalhealth. This is a bland new angle, seldom employed by traditional research. This paperemploys the new angle to find the role it plays in children’s physical health, in order toprovide theory basis for promotion of kindergarten PE activities.This study adopts document method, experimental method, questionnaire methodand statistical methods, to give a comprehensive experimental study on60childrenaround5-6years old of Mudandjiang education experiment kindergarten. Experimentalsubjects are divided into two groups including an experimental group and a controlgroup (30children per group and each contains15boys and15girls). In this experiment,I firstly made a test on each child’s body shape, function, quality and body coordinationindicators respectively before and after the experiment. Secondly, I issuedquestionnaires to the parents of children in experimental group twice before and afterthe experiment to get analysis of the children’s mental health.The results provide some suggestions:Experimental results show that table tennis exercise have positive impacts onheight of the children, children’s upper arm circumference, flexibility, sensitivity,coordination, speed, quality and balance abilities, and may have positive effects onchildren’s emotional awareness and interpersonal skill. Table tennis is proved to besuitable for children to practice in the kindergarten, which may contribute to buildingchildren’s self-confidence, enterprising spirit, and willpower.In order to get the positive effects of table tennis exercise and to eliminate itsnegative effects, a resources share mechanism should be found to provide kindergartenswith sharing resources with kinds of schools and training centers, such as sharingplaygrounds, teachers and sports equipment. Special training plans for children shouldbe made to regularize children’s arm swing and to promote the coordination of their two arms, which will improve their athletic abilities. Several steps should be taken toimprove children’s sports consciousness and cultivate their interests in sports, and thesemethods will make table tennis being a part of children’ childhood.