Children play barefoot not only out of curiosity, but also as a kind of exercise. In Japan, “barefoot” has become an official course and has been introduced to the national school’s hall of fame. For example, the famous kindergarten attached to Aichi University spent more than 7 million yen to pry away the concrete floor in the courtyard and replace it with sand so that children can play on the sand to their heart’s content. Why does Japan give the green light for children to play barefoot? Because barefoot training can bring great benefits to the physical and intellectual development of children. One, educational The biggest contribution of barefoot exercise is to enhance the child’s intellectual level by strengthening the brain and education. The foot is a motor organ composed of bones, muscles, tendons, blood vessels, nerves and other tissues. The feet have a total of 66 points, many points and internal organs, especially the brain are connected to the nerve response points, medically known as the foot reflex zone. Children often barefoot activities, can stimulate and excite the dense nerve endings receptors on the soles of the feet, through the feedback of the central nervous system, play a regulatory function of the organs, including the brain, thereby improving the sensitivity of the brain thinking and memory. Thus, scientists have proposed “to make the head spirit, walk 10,000 steps a day” point of view. Second, fitness The child’s metabolism is vigorous, the foot skin capillaries and peripheral nerves are very rich. If you wear shoes all day, it will make the child feel very uncomfortable. Children are active, foot sweat secretion, and wet shoes are easy to grow and breed germs, which may lead to inflammation of the soft tissues of the child’s feet. Barefoot exercise precisely avoids these disadvantages of shoes and socks, and to varying degrees avoids the occurrence of foot diseases such as tinea pedis, corns and inflammation of the soft tissues of the feet. At the same time, the child’s delicate soles directly in contact with the soil, gravel, not only beneficial to the development of plantar skin, improve the strength of the muscles and ligaments on the bottom of the foot, but also help the formation of the arch, to avoid or reduce the occurrence of flat feet, is the same as foot aerobics. At the same time, barefoot exercise on the toes, the palms of the feet and other parts of a good acupressure, can play a “spleen and stomach to eliminate accumulation, strengthen the heart and calm the mind, the kidneys and bones to brighten the eyes, the marrow and brain and ears” and other effects, for children’s enuresis, diarrhea, constipation, noma and other treatment have a unique effect. So it seems that often let children play barefoot, is indeed a “health in entertainment” beneficial activities. The method of barefoot exercise should be chosen according to the age of the child: 1 year – 1.5 years old baby suitable for training in bed; 1.5 years old after the use of cloth bags filled with smooth pebbles, hold the child in the above barefoot stepping; 2, 3 years old, you can take the child to walk on the indoor floor; 4, 5 years old, you can take him to the clean grass, sand barefoot walking. Of course, as with other forms of exercise, safety should not be neglected. For example, the road should be straight and flat, clean, with a soft and hard sandy texture is appropriate to prevent dirt pollution and baby’s feet by sharp objects pierced.