(Read Now) Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children *Books

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In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children?s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults. Today?s kids have adopted sedentary lifestyles filled with television, video games, and computer screens. But more and more, studies show that children need ?rough and tumble? outdoor play in order to develop their sensory, motor, and executive functions. Disturbingly, a lack of movement has been shown to lead to a number of health and cognitive difficulties, such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emotion regulation and sensory processing issues, and aggressiveness at school recess break. So, how can you ensure your child is fully engaging their body, mind, and all of their senses? Using the same philosophy that lies at the heart of her popular

Author : Angela J. Hanscom

Pages : pages

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Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 1626253730

ISBN-13 : 9781626253735