Parents Helping Children
Parents can use a simple Kids Focus movement to interrupt difficult behaviors and get children back on track – anytime, anywhere. Positive change occurs in under a minute at home or on the go. Homework, chores, and socializing become easier.
Movements can be used to break up old behavior patterns and reinforce new, positive reactions.
Practicing at home sets up new patterns that can be used in challenging situations like going to the store, playing with other children, and responding to parents or caregivers in different environments.
Parents can use a simple Kids Focus movement to interrupt difficult behaviors and get children back on track – anytime, anywhere. Positive change occurs in under a minute at home or on the go. Homework, chores, and socializing become easier.
Movements can be used to break up old behavior patterns and reinforce new, positive reactions.
Practicing at home sets up new patterns that can be used in challenging situations like going to the store, playing with other children, and responding to parents or caregivers in different environments.
Can Movement Help Your Baby or Child? YES !!
The NASPE (National Association for Sport and Physical Education) Guidelines for movement for children are designed to support the health and well-being of children throughout the United States. The guidelines state that “All children from birth to age 5 should engage in daily physical activity that promotes movement skillfulness and foundations of health-related fitness.” Here’s what that really means.
INFANTS – “Caregivers should place infants in settings that encourage and stimulate movement experiences and active play for short periods of time several times each day.” “You can
encourage your infant to be active from the time he or she is born.” For example, offer your infant small challenges like placing a toy just outside their reach, so that the infant crosses the midline of the body to reach and grasp.
TODDLER – “Toddlers should engage in a total of at least 30 minutes of structured physical activity each day.” PLUS at least 60 minutes – and up to several hours – per day of unstructured physical
activity and “should NOT be sedentary for more than 60 minutes at a time, except when sleeping.” Encourage moving by modeling and example. Try out simple, safe movements together from baby yoga programs.
PRESCHOOLERS – “Preschoolers should accumulate at least 60 minutes of structured
physical activity each day.” PLUS at least 60 minutes – and up to several hours – of unstructured activity each day and “should NOT be sedentary for more than 60 minutes at a time, except when sleeping.” Preschoolers love to move. Doing simple, cross-lateral movements like cross crawls before any
learning activity helps switch on the brain, encourage focus, and just makes kids feel happy!
The NASPE (National Association for Sport and Physical Education) Guidelines for movement for children are designed to support the health and well-being of children throughout the United States. The guidelines state that “All children from birth to age 5 should engage in daily physical activity that promotes movement skillfulness and foundations of health-related fitness.” Here’s what that really means.
INFANTS – “Caregivers should place infants in settings that encourage and stimulate movement experiences and active play for short periods of time several times each day.” “You can
encourage your infant to be active from the time he or she is born.” For example, offer your infant small challenges like placing a toy just outside their reach, so that the infant crosses the midline of the body to reach and grasp.
TODDLER – “Toddlers should engage in a total of at least 30 minutes of structured physical activity each day.” PLUS at least 60 minutes – and up to several hours – per day of unstructured physical
activity and “should NOT be sedentary for more than 60 minutes at a time, except when sleeping.” Encourage moving by modeling and example. Try out simple, safe movements together from baby yoga programs.
PRESCHOOLERS – “Preschoolers should accumulate at least 60 minutes of structured
physical activity each day.” PLUS at least 60 minutes – and up to several hours – of unstructured activity each day and “should NOT be sedentary for more than 60 minutes at a time, except when sleeping.” Preschoolers love to move. Doing simple, cross-lateral movements like cross crawls before any
learning activity helps switch on the brain, encourage focus, and just makes kids feel happy!
Encourage Movement!
When you encourage movement, along with great nutrition and lots of love, you give your baby or child an important opportunity to avoid ADHD-like behaviors and other challenges later on. We can’t control the ups and
downs of life, but movement promotes brain cell development and enhancement, and has been shown to even help children better handle life’s difficulties.
Sadly, most of our schools and day care centers are not meeting the NASPE movement guidelines. And our children’s brains, intelligence, and well-being suffer.
I created the Kids Focus ~ Brain-Body-Balancing for Young Learners program to bring simple movements right into schools and day care centers and to give parents tools to help their children focus, feel calm and learn to self-regulate. For more information, check my website and blog at solutionswithoutdrugs.com.
When you encourage movement, along with great nutrition and lots of love, you give your baby or child an important opportunity to avoid ADHD-like behaviors and other challenges later on. We can’t control the ups and
downs of life, but movement promotes brain cell development and enhancement, and has been shown to even help children better handle life’s difficulties.
Sadly, most of our schools and day care centers are not meeting the NASPE movement guidelines. And our children’s brains, intelligence, and well-being suffer.
I created the Kids Focus ~ Brain-Body-Balancing for Young Learners program to bring simple movements right into schools and day care centers and to give parents tools to help their children focus, feel calm and learn to self-regulate. For more information, check my website and blog at solutionswithoutdrugs.com.
