Why Don't Children Sit Still?: A Parent's Guide to Healthy Movement and Play in Child Development

Movement is essential for children's development of motor, intellectual, emotional, and social skills. Understanding how children develop sensory motor skills can help parents address concerns and find reassurance. Evelien van Dort's book outlines how children develop skills such as spatial awareness, balance, coordination, and telling right from left, based on Rudolf Steiner's theories of child development.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 120 pages
\n Publication date: 19 July 2018
\n Publisher: Floris Books
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Why is my son so clumsy?

Why is my daughter's handwriting so messy?

My children only want to play video games: will lack of movement really hurt them?

Movement is essential in helping children develop not only motor skills but also intellectual, emotional, and social skills. Children learn through doing and play. But a child's journey to learn how to control their body can cause frustration in parents. How often do parents say, "Can you not just sit still?" or treat a grazed knee when children fall over their own feet?

By understanding how children develop sensory motor skills -- that is, get information through their senses and respond with their physical body -- parents can start to address and find reassurance about the issues that concern them.

In this practical and insightful book, Evelien van Dort, a children's physiotherapist with thirty years of experience, uses Rudolf Steiner's theories of child development to outline how children develop skills such as spatial awareness, balance, coordination, and telling right from left. This book will inform and reassure any parent or educator about the impact of a child's movement on their wider learning.

\n Weight: 128g\n
Dimension: 198 x 137 x 9 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781782505143\n \n