did in P.E. at school, he told me they did Cup Stacking... What the hell does Cup Stacking have to do with Physical Education?!?!?!
I want my son to be physically fit, not a nerd who can stack cups fast !!!!
How the hell does this benefit him physically?!?!
2007-01-16 15:05:32 · 13 answers · asked by James W 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
Well, you also gotta understand that he's only 8, he has plenty of time to learn how to do a push up. Although, I think that you're right in the fact that PE classes are more into not hurting self-esteem than it is into real physical education. Kids can't do push-ups or pull ups or something, then they get humiliated instead of learning a lesson on how to do it. Keep teaching your son this stuff that they won't and he'll be fine. Just be patient too, they may teach it later on and he'll have a leg up on it.
2007-01-16 15:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by superkrogerbaggerman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're concept of Physical Education is narrow, co-ordination is very important. Especially for children such as your son, gross and fine motor skills need to be tuned before they can do complex actions like shoot a basketball.
I'm sure this is not all they do everyday, relax. I'm sure you can ask the teacher what is included in his curriculum at the next parent teacher interview. If you were relying on the school to make your son fit, I'd say you were in a dreamworld.
However, that is not the case, you're doing exercise at home, keep it up. Its just as important as math homework. Take him outdoors to play or in role him in a sport. There are a lot of things to teach a child in Phys Ed other then just DOING the heavy exercises. Co-ordination, flexibility and proper stretching, health, sport specific skils, balance, fair play, etc.
Keep up the good work. Make sure to keep those hand roughly under the shoulders in that push-up.
2007-01-17 00:27:46 · answer #2 · answered by Noota Oolah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know our school does something like that so I just asked my 8 yr old. They do their exercises - lunges, arm circles, windmills, etc according to my daughter. Then they play high energy games... physical games, I should say.
I asked her about the cup stacking and her eyes lit up! She likes it but she says they only get to do it when it's raining and the multi-purpose room is being used for something else so they go to a classroom and do the cup stacking.
2007-01-16 23:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hand eye coordination. I was on an all-star softball team in high school and one of the drills we did was juggling tennis balls if you can believe that. It actually did help our hand-eye coordination and it was fun. Express your concerns to the PE teacher (calmly) and just make sure there are other more physically challenging things they are doing in addition to the crazy cup stacking.
2007-01-17 19:05:14 · answer #4 · answered by Ella727 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lame as it is, cup stacking works on improving eye-hand coordination!
2007-01-16 23:13:42 · answer #5 · answered by tartu_k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hand-eye coordination.
2007-01-16 23:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it teaches greater hand-eye coordination and greatly improves small motor skills. also, it teaches them to be precise in their movements. i personally think that they do this because alot of children his age have problems with coordination. while it may not benefit your son individually, it may help one in his class
2007-01-16 23:13:43 · answer #7 · answered by mosher 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is weird, ask the teacher what that has to do with PE. It may just be that the teacher is to lazy to clean up.
2007-01-16 23:12:44 · answer #8 · answered by Stephanie D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it doesn't seem all that physical to me, but it does help with hand, eye coordination
2007-01-16 23:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by Shadow Kat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably something to do with fine motor skills.
2007-01-16 23:40:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋