Choices of children in relation to traditional games played in Gurugram district of Haryana
Author(s): Satish Gulia
Abstract: Traditional games are considered as a part of our culture and preferred by the children in villages throughout the country with lots of different reasons, like physical development, emotional development, cognitive development, societal development and cultural developments apart from their health, fitness and well-being. The games and sports are our inborn tendency, as a result children of different age groups have a strong inclination towards traditional games. The main purpose of conducting this study was to find out the choices of children in relation to the traditional games played by them in Gurugram district of Haryana. The data relating to the study was collected from three different schools out of three different blocks in Gurugram district of Haryana involving a total of 75 (seventy five) subjects playing the traditional games ranging between 12 years to 16 years of age. The research findings were revealed using a percentile method out of one hundred traditional games.