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Good Balance Is Important For All Children

Good Balance Is Important For All Children

Balance is the ability to maintain control over the body and is an important skill in everyday tasks such as walking, sitting, dressing, or riding a bike. Balance begins to develop in infancy. The child first learns to maintain control over their head, then as core...

Fine Motor Skills Every Pre-schooler Needs

Fine Motor Skills Every Pre-schooler Needs

What are fine motor skills? Fine Motor Skills involve the use and coordination of the smaller muscles in the hands, fingers and thumbs. Fine motor skills begin to develop very early in life. You may notice how a baby concentrates to coordinate their forefinger and...

Fun Jumping Activities for Kids

Fun Jumping Activities for Kids

Why is jumping important? The 2018 Active Healthy Kids Australia Report Card recently highlighted declines in the jumping ability of Australian children and young people which indicate that ‘it’s time for a jump start’ for muscular fitness. When we think about the...

Fine Motor Skill – Scissor Skills

Fine Motor Skill – Scissor Skills

Like all learning - the development of scissor skills is a process which occurs incrementally. Just as you would not expect to give a young child a pencil and expect them to begin writing fluently - the functional use of scissors is the same. The child needs to have...

Crossing The Midline: What is it all about?

Crossing The Midline: What is it all about?

Image Courtesy of babycollege.co.uk What does it mean to cross the midline? Think of an imaginary line extending from the top of your head down the centre of your body. This is the midline – which theoretically separates the left and right side of the body.To be able...

Kick it to me…Kick it to me…

Kick it to me…Kick it to me…

Learning the fundamental motor skill of kicking begins in the early years but does not usually mature until the age of 6-7 years. Kicking skills will continue to be refined over the years with practice and coaching.The enjoyment toddlers experience with learning to...

Let’s Talk About Feelings

Let’s Talk About Feelings

To be human is to experience emotions. Sometimes these emotions are positive such as feeling happy, excited, elated or joyous and sometimes the emotions are negative such as feeling sad, lonely or jealous. For most of us, we experience a whole spectrum of emotions...