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

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A practical and insightful book exploring the role of movement in child development (including spatial awareness, balance, coordination and telling right from left). Filled with reassuring answers to parents' questions.

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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's uses her thirty years' experience as a children's physiotherapist, and draws on 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.

Author Biography

Evelien van Dort is a children's physiotherapist in the Netherlands with over thirty years' experience. She has two children, and has written many story books for children. She was knighted in 2016 in recognition of her services to literature and literacy.

Review

'An excellent little book that sets out clearly why movement is helpful for children, and how we can support that as parents.'-- Juno'Van Dort's book is informative and pragmatic and the overall tone is warm and calmly reassuring.'-- The Social Artist

Long Description

Explores how children develop motor sensory skills, revealing the reasons why children don't sit still A practical and insightful parenting guide filled with reassuring and useful advice Written by a children's physiotherapist with over 30 years experience in her field 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's uses her thirty years' experience as a children's physiotherapist, and draws on Rudolf Steiner's theories of child development, to outline how children develop skills such as spacial 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.

Review Quote

'An excellent little book that sets out clearly why movement is helpful for children, and how we can support that as parents.' - Juno 'Van Dort's book is informative and pragmatic and the overall tone is warm and calmly reassuring.' - The Social Artist

Description for Sales People

For every parents who's every asked: why is my son so clumsy, or why is my daughter's handwriting so messy? Author has thirty years experience as a children's physiotherapist. Explains how children develop balance, spacial awareness and coordination.

Details ISBN1782505148 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1782505148 ISBN-13 9781782505143 Media Book Pages 120 Language English Translator Barbara Mees Imprint Floris Books Subtitle A Parent's Guide to Healthy Movement and Play in Child Development Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Dutch DEWEY 649.1 Format Paperback Short Title Why Don't Children Sit Still? UK Release Date 2018-07-19 NZ Release Date 2018-07-19 Author Evelien Dort Publisher Floris Books Publication Date 2018-07-19 Audience General AU Release Date 2018-07-14 We've got this

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