Learning to ride a bike is one of the passages and rites of childhood. I remember when I was finally able to ride a bike all by myself without the training wheels and keep going without crashing … [Read more...]
Screen Time: How Much is Too Much?
With the rise in electronic gadgets and media that is educational, more and more children are spending increased amounts of time in front of the television, or the iphone, or the ipad, or the … [Read more...]
No Kid Left Inside – Benefits of Outdoor Play
Here is the last part of my talk. We've talked about why kids aren't outside playing and ideas for how to get them outside playing. In this post I'm going to talk about the benefits of getting them … [Read more...]
Childhood Obeisity
Obesity is a continuously growing epidemic in our society and this article has an interesting perspective. What's even more interesting is that childhood obesity is rapidly growing. Kids are … [Read more...]
Does Gross Motor Development Affect Cognitive Development?
Your Therapy Source recently posted about a press release (Reference: Simple tests in babyhood ‘could point to children who need help with learning’ Retrieved from the web on 2/18/2010 from … [Read more...]