Is It Ok to Skip Crawling
This is a question that comes up frequently. Depending on who you ask you will get different...
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Posts about motivation (3):
Troubleshooting Crawling
We get a lot of questions about crawling. We will address some of the most common here!
My Baby Can Sit – Now What?
I find there are two types of babies who sit. The ones who are ‘professional sitters’ as I like to...
Working on Reaching
Reaching is a way that your little one begins to purposefully interact with their environment....
5 Ways to Use Pillows
Anyone getting cabin fever yet? The kids are getting bored and tired of all their toys at home, but...
Adventure Time – Princes and Princesses
This story is written as the prince rescuing the princess but definitely feel free to have the...
3 More Teletherapy Games
Enjoy the first round of virtual therapy games? Check out this follow up with more ideas to engage...
3 Teletherapy Games
With everything happening virtually now a days therapists have needed to get creative in new ways...
5 ‘Outside’ Activities for Indoors
It’s definitely been a difficult time being at home all day and having limited ways to get outside...
Playing in Sidelying
We get a lot of questions about how to help little ones get into and play in sidelying. Hopefully...
Prone Propping and Pushing Up
As your little one starts tolerating tummy time more and more they will use their arms to prop on...
Progressing to Independent Walking
We seem to have a bunch of little ones right now that are working on taking independent steps....