Motor Planning
Playing with Purpose
Motor Planning is the ability to move your body in ways necessary to accomplish a task.
Delays in accomplishing motor milestones.
Issues performing new or novel tasks that should be within the child’s repertoire. Such as, circling arms forward but not able to circle backward. They can jump but can’t jump in a circle.
Trouble stringing together a succession of movements or actions, like on an obstacle course. They have each skill such as jump, hop, and squat, but can’t figure out how to do them in rapid succession.
Issues making the two body sides work together in a coordinated fashion at the same time (like jumping) or reciprocally (like skipping).
Social Pods
I Get It, We Have All Had Enough
We can no longer avoid talking about what this pandemic is doing to our:
children
families
selves
Indoor Ideas to Stimulate Emotional Development
Children’s emotional development thrives in the presence of other children. During these times, contact with other children is reduced. Parents often feel choices must be made between physical safety and their children’s wellbeing. We certainly have tools available to us to foster our children’s progress.