Wonder of Movement-August 2017
It's Kids Month at Elan! Here's a share from the archives on Wonders of Movement.
I'm going to explore some of the things we can do as parents with our young ones, from infancy to older kids. Many of these activities are easier in the summer, so kick them outside if you can (not the babes, just the older ones)!
Developing Crawling Skills: Giving baby a chance to move and stretch on her own, she will master rolling, pushing up, and eventually crawling. Crawling is a rich neurological skill-coordinating of the right and left brain, moving opposite arm and leg together, having the back muscles fire in a new pattern to help develop a side to side motion, opening up the environment to be explored. Crawling will give baby a new perspective as she's more off of the ground and can see new objects with a different depth of vision. This cross crawl and the resulting brain patterns will help form the basis for more complex tasks later in life - walking, running, writing, passing objects left to right. Crawling helps to establish the curves of the back, upright posture and a healthy spine.
Being Outside and Experiencing Nature: This encourages more active play - running, rolling, hiding, digging, all of which help to stimulate our child's senses and physical body.
Balance (Vestibular), Proprioception: Ensuring that your child has activities that stimulate all five senses is important, but I have a special place for activities that stimulate the vestibular and proprioceptive systems. Examples are: spinning in circles/swinging, balancing, sliding, walking on uneven surfaces, and crawling through small spaces (vestibular); pushing or pulling a wagon, kneading dough, dressing, stretching to the sky, water/sand play (proprioceptive).
I want to see that every child has the full ability to move and have the brain coordinating and listening to all parts of her body and spine. As each part of the spine moves, the nerves receive stimulation and help to give more information to the limbs, organs, skin, everything! If areas don't move and connect, information is lost.
Do you know a child who would benefit from care? For the month of August we are offering FREE initial assessments for kids! Stop in and grab a gift certificate for someone you know, or send them our way and ask them to let us know they'd like the FREE children's assessment.
I'm going to explore some of the things we can do as parents with our young ones, from infancy to older kids. Many of these activities are easier in the summer, so kick them outside if you can (not the babes, just the older ones)!
Developing Crawling Skills: Giving baby a chance to move and stretch on her own, she will master rolling, pushing up, and eventually crawling. Crawling is a rich neurological skill-coordinating of the right and left brain, moving opposite arm and leg together, having the back muscles fire in a new pattern to help develop a side to side motion, opening up the environment to be explored. Crawling will give baby a new perspective as she's more off of the ground and can see new objects with a different depth of vision. This cross crawl and the resulting brain patterns will help form the basis for more complex tasks later in life - walking, running, writing, passing objects left to right. Crawling helps to establish the curves of the back, upright posture and a healthy spine.
Being Outside and Experiencing Nature: This encourages more active play - running, rolling, hiding, digging, all of which help to stimulate our child's senses and physical body.
Balance (Vestibular), Proprioception: Ensuring that your child has activities that stimulate all five senses is important, but I have a special place for activities that stimulate the vestibular and proprioceptive systems. Examples are: spinning in circles/swinging, balancing, sliding, walking on uneven surfaces, and crawling through small spaces (vestibular); pushing or pulling a wagon, kneading dough, dressing, stretching to the sky, water/sand play (proprioceptive).
I want to see that every child has the full ability to move and have the brain coordinating and listening to all parts of her body and spine. As each part of the spine moves, the nerves receive stimulation and help to give more information to the limbs, organs, skin, everything! If areas don't move and connect, information is lost.
Do you know a child who would benefit from care? For the month of August we are offering FREE initial assessments for kids! Stop in and grab a gift certificate for someone you know, or send them our way and ask them to let us know they'd like the FREE children's assessment.
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