Our blogs are inspired by our passion for enhancing childhood development and pediatric physical therapy. We write for both parents and professionals and work to provide a mix of education, activity/treatment ideas, and our favorite toys. Because we write for you, we would love to know what topics you are interested in or what questions you have that we can answer!
Tips and Tricks for Independent Sitting
Sitting up on their own can be such a big milestone for a little one. It’s amazing how they go from leaning all over you to becoming a bit of a weeble wobble to all of a sudden they can sit independently and are reaching for and playing with toys. I know it doesn’t happen […]
Unstructured Play
We know this has been a challenging time, especially with parents working from home while helping their kids with school and helping with virtual therapy appointments. It is now easy. We want to say that you are all doing a great job. Make sure you take a moment for yourself occasionally, as well as acknowledge […]
Activity Round Up
With so many schools cancelled we wanted to pull together some of our blog posts to give you some ideas of activities you can do with your little ones! I will try to give age ranges with the following codes, but check some of the activities out that may not be in the age range […]
5 Tips for Getting into Sitting
We have been getting a lot of questions about how to help a baby get into sitting. Here are some tips! Most of these are used with babies that are independently sitting already or are pretty close to independently sitting. That doesn’t mean you can’t play around with it sooner but know that it will […]
Tips to Promote Independent Sitting
These tips can be used for babies who are learning a new skill, or for older children who maybe need a little extra help with balance. Sitting up is such an important skill because it changes a child’s access to the world. They are suddenly able to interact with the world and people in a […]
7 Ways to Carry or Hold Your Baby
Carrying and holding a baby is going to vary based on how their strength is. Check out the video for full details! Make sure that you are switching sides frequently as you are carrying them so that they are able to work the muscles in their body evenly. We all have a preferred side to […]
Playing in Sidelying
We get a lot of questions about how to help little ones get into and play in sidelying. Hopefully we can answer some of those questions here! Sidelying is a great position for babies to play in because it helps them with bringing their hands to midline, it helps to develop oblique strength, they are […]
Prone Propping and Pushing Up
As your little one starts tolerating tummy time more and more they will use their arms to prop on and to eventually push up on. This is all building for higher level function such as crawling and getting into standing. It also helps to build their arm and core strength. Now if your little one […]
Top Posts of 2019
Wow, how has a year gone by so fast? I know we started the year off strong and then partway through dropped the ball for a while, but we’ve been back since October and we are excited for more new content in 2020! As always, we want to publish what you all are interested in. […]
Righting Reactions
Righting reactions are an important part of balance and postural control and they begin developing as soon as the baby is born and they have to move in an environment influenced by gravity! We have talked about when babies have postural preferences or movement asymmetries and this post will also address how they can affect […]
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