Playing organized team sports can boost kids' mental and physical health . According to a 2024 study in JAMA Network Open , children who engage in team-based athletics when they're 10 or 11 years old showed a higher level of executive functioning than their peers who are involved in individual sports. Meanwhile, a 2013 study in the Journal of Obesity found that kids who played a sport more than once a week lowered their risk for becoming overweight.

This means that Barron Trump, the youngest child of President Donald Trump and only child of First Lady Melania Trump, may be entering adulthood with added physical and intellectual benefits thanks to his years engaging in soccer and baseball. Although he was kept out of the public eye for much of his childhood, his mother would occasion

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