Cruising Along
What is cruising? Cruising is when your child begins to walk while holding onto a stationary...
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The Starfish Blog
Tips and ideas to help children develop physically and occupationally, making movement enjoyable for parents, caregivers, educators and kids of all ages!
Posts about education (23):
Repetition and the Beauty of ‘Redo’
Repetition is critical for learning new skills. Its how mastery occurs. This is true for a child...
Fun Ideas For Sensory Exploration
Here are some ideas you can use with your kids for sensory play and sensorimotor exploration and...
Sensory Exploration in Today’s Society
I was recently at the house of one of my kiddos and her younger siblings were jumping all over the...
What Goes Up, Must Come Down
I’ve talked about the importance of climbing in ‘Climbing: The Catch-22‘ but this is something I...
The Art of Falling
No one wants to see their child, or any other child, fall and get hurt, me included. That said, I...
Climbing: The Catch-22
When children begin climbing it opens a whole new world of dangers for parents, however it also...
Why is w-sitting being promoted in advertising?
Imagine my surprise as I’m flipping through my August 24, 2009 issue of People magazine and I see...
Strategies For Stretching
Stretching is something that I think is important to maintain your child’s range of motion. One...
Tight Muscles and The Importance of Stretching
As adults I know most of us have experienced tight muscles because we don’t stretch as often as we...