Extracurricular activities keep your kids busy and productive while they're having fun. If your child is interested in learning how to dance, ballet offers a multitude of benefits they'll need throughout their lives. Here are a few significant ways ballet classes benefit kids.

How Are Ballet Classes Beneficial to Children?

1. Boost Confidence

Your child will master new skills and make noticeable improvements throughout their classes. Their ability to succeed will boost their confidence, leading to more outgoing behavior. They'll do better presenting at school, making friends, and trying new activities. Plus, the sense of accomplishment can increase their interest in learning.

2. Support Physical Health

Obesity affects roughly 14 million children in the United States. Between classes, recitals, and at-home practicing, ballet ensures your child stays active. It builds strength, flexibility, and coordination and enhances their endurance. This supports their physical health and can prepare them for other activities, like sports.

3. Teach Teamwork & Social Skills

Ballet requires kids to work together. They're expected to help each other during practices, celebrate one another's successes, and work fluidly as a team during recitals. They'll also hone social skills like communication and conflict resolution, boosting their ability to make friends and work in groups for school, clubs, and—later in life—work. 

4. Encourage Discipline & Perseverance 

To do well at ballet, your child must learn discipline and perseverance. They'll need to practice and attend classes, even when they don't feel like it or would rather be playing. If they struggle with a technique or routine, they'll be pushed to keep working at it until they succeed. Overall, they'll learn with hard work and dedication, they can succeed at anything. Ballet classes will help them develop a positive work ethic and determination that will help them throughout life.

Help your child achieve these goals with dance classes at Kick It Up Dance in Long Beach, CA. Their experienced instructors offer competitive and recreational classes for kids ages two and up, including ballet, hula, tap, and even musical theatre. They also offer adult fitness and dance classes, so you and your child can have fun. Visit them online to explore their dance class options, or call (562) 430-1812 to enroll in a class.