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!
Encouraging Standing on One Foot
Standing on one foot is a common skill that kids should develop. it starts to generally emerge during the second year. Standing on one foot involves a child's strength, balance and overall body … [Read more...]
Having Fun With Pop Tubes!
Pop Tubes are a really simple yet fun and productive toy. Kids are fascinated by them because of the cool noise they make as well as the fact that they can stretch them and shrink them. Here are … [Read more...]
Prone Swing
Ok, so I was stuck for an idea for a blog post so I asked one of our regular kiddos what his favorite activity was to do here. After he listed all the apps he likes to play (as motivation) he said … [Read more...]
Water Balloon Fun!
image retrieved from syllybillywaterballoons.com It has been so nice here that yesterday for group we decided to take the kids outside to do a water balloon toss. They loved it! Water balloons are a … [Read more...]
Ideas for Squatting
In my previous post I talked about squatting. Well here are some ideas for working on squatting with your kiddos. Playing in Squatting: For kids that won't go into that full or deep squat to … [Read more...]
Squats (not just the dreaded gym exercise)
Squatting is when a child (or adult) bends their knees to lower themselves closer to the ground. In the case of kids this is usually for a functional purpose such as to pick something up from the … [Read more...]
Using Gross Motor to Learn Letters/Numbers/Shapes (Kinesthetic Learning)
When kids are moving its a great opportunity for them to learn. A lot of times we do it naturally by having them count as they jump, or ask them to jump or stand on a colored circle so they are … [Read more...]
The Power of Kids to Influence Us!
So, I am always amazed at what good enrollers kids are. They do it naturally. Yes, we have our agenda that we want to get through to them however their agenda always manages to sneak in as … [Read more...]
The Ability to Focus on More Than One Thing (aka Multi-Task)
I recently had an aha moment with regards to what it takes to learn new things when I was working with a student and trying to teach them everything that goes into being a pediatric physical therapist … [Read more...]
Learning to Commando Crawl
In this video I show some ways to help your child learn how to crawl on their belly. I've talked about some pre-crawling items in other posts and this would still be considered pre-crawling but now … [Read more...]
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