Shifting Into a Self-Regulated Lifestyle
I get it! Our integrated movement and mindfulness curriculum can feel overwhelming or even daunting for educators who have never participated in any form of intentional movement or meditative practice. I used to think that response was because the Movement &...
Self Care – Essential for Mental Health
What is self-care? The definition varies depending on who you’re asking, but essentially it means taking care of yourself physically and mentally. In recent years the concept of mental health has come to the forefront of societal conversation, so much so that May has...
New Resources for Parents
In this 9 minute interview, Leah Kalish, MA, speaks with parenting coach, Gretchen Goddard. Find out more about the value to children of including more active play and self-regulation practices in daily family life. Learn about the two new therapeutic modalities that...
What is Sensory Integration?
The following post was writting by Marcia Washington OTR/L, who has been practicing pediatric occupational therapy for 20 years. Parents often ask me – What is sensory integration and how can I help my child with it? Here’s my explanation: Picture yourself in the...
What’s Missing in SEL Programs for Younger Children
Earlier this year, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a grant from the Wallace Foundation, came out with a 350 page analysis of SEL Programs in the USA. Entitled Navigating SEL from the Inside Out, it dissects 25 leading SEL programs for elementary school...
Supporting Military Families with Movement & Mindfulness
Written by: Wendy Piret, Program Director, Move with Me Yoga Adventures Last April, Janine Harper, Director of the Family Advocacy Program (FAP) for the Army Community Service (ACS) Center in Yongsan, South Korea, a province of Seoul, contacted us regarding resources...
How does social and emotional development affect learning?
SEL Teaches Character In 1995, New York Times science reporter Daniel Goleman published the book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, which launched the SEL movement. The case he presents and validates with preliminary evidence is that: Character...
How to teach social emotional learning skills
We don’t learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience. -John Dewey How to teach social emotional learning To teach social-emotional skills, educators and parents need to build in time for children to imagine, experiment, and reflect on their...
What are Social Emotional Learning Standards?
Social Emotional Learning is about developing the ability to: set and achieve goals feel and show empathy establish and maintain relationships make responsible decisions understand and manage emotions Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Standards list the intrapersonal,...
Does Your Relationship with Your Parents Impact Your Health?
How you hold your parents matters. When you judge, disrespect, or reject one or both of them, you are doing the same to yourself. Since you are literally of them and from them, it’s vital to your well-being and inner peace to accept them as they are, even if only in...
Body-Mind Development 101
Health, Academic, and Social-Emotional Competence starts at home with daily play and exercise. My interview with Marcia Washington reaffirmed some basic truths about child development that I want to passionately re-iterate! 1. Physical coordination precedes and lays...
Helping Children with ADD/ADHD (VIDEO)
Marcia Washington, OTR/L, has been practicing pediatric occupational therapy for 20 years. In 2009, in her hometown of Pontotoc, MS, she launched KidSense, a clinic that specializes in pediatric therapy, includes a sensory motor gym, and serves clients from over a 70...
How Honest Are We?
I just found out that last Saturday, April 30, has been declared National Honesty Day. On one hand, that’s laughable, given our current political climate in which truth and facts are considered malleable as well as debatable. On the other hand, maybe that’s exactly...
Your Health Matters Most
I started volunteering one afternoon a week at a nearby hospital. Basically, I show up to the pediatric and perinatal units and work with whomever the staff therapist suggests I do. She then introduces me as the yoga – mindfulness specialist and encourages them to...
Help Kids Build Confidence with Good Posture & Core Strength
Encouraging young children to practice proper posture and to engage in core strengthening activity is vital to laying a foundation for not just physical health but also for mental-emotional strength. Spinal health is the basis of balance and stability not just in our...
FREE Embodied Mindfulness Video Program for Kids
The free Embodied Mindfulness Video by Wellness Through Movement is an 8-minute animated story (see below for video), designed to be presented to children in 4 two-minute sections. It shows how two children who get in trouble for not listening come to understand what...
Stimulation vs Nourishment
In the video below, Rafe Kelley, founder of Evolve Move Play, presents a valuable distinction between that which fills our attention and feeds our monkey minds and that which nourishes our humanity and fuels our personal development. It’s a valuable lens through...
2 Breathing Exercises to Support Executive Function
The official definition of executive function is: a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one's resources in order to achieve a goal. It is an umbrella term for the neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation....
4 Ways to Build & Enhance Focus
Building focus requires practice in settling one's nervous system, in strengthening one's eye muscles, and in mylenating the neural pathways in one's brain. To help children build the ability to focus, we must give them opportunities, through playful, meaningful...
10 Benefits of Cross Crawl – Brain Hemisphere Synching Exercise – with Video
What is Cross Crawl? Cross crawl refers to movements in which we use opposition such as crawling, walking, running, and swimming. Opposition means that opposite sides of the body work together to coordinate the right arm and left leg, then the left arm and right leg....
A Breathing Exercise for Impulse Control
Impulse Control Defined Impulse control refers to the ability to think before acting and to forgo an immediate desire to wait for a later reward. For children, impulse control means developing social skills such as managing to wait politely for food to be prepared;...
5 Steps to Slowing Down
Learning to notice that you are sped up and, in response, down-regulate, is a valuable life skill. It will give your children a foundation upon which to build self-awareness, self-regulation and well-being. The steps outlined in this article are to support you in...
Good Health Starts with Self-Regulation
Recently, my teacher sent me this article by Gabor Maté: How to Build a Culture of Good Health. Read it! It beautifully explains the holistic, relational, developmental nature of health that I think we’ve all experienced at some level but never had words for:...
The Dance of Interaction
I just read an awesome book called, The Dance of Interaction, A Guide to Managing Children’s Challenging Behaviors, by Jeanine Fitzgerald. Ms. Fitzgerald is a licensed mental health professional and certified Human Behavior Consultant and Specialist, with 35 years of...
Keep Fighting for More Play!
The Damage Being Done by the Focus on Early Academic Instruction For all of you still having to “fight” for more active play/yoga/mindfulness/nature time with early learners, research funded by the Alliance for Childhood and Defending the Early Years Foundation...
Being in the Vertical vs. Horizontal
In a recent Movement and Mindfulness™ Curriculum Certification, our trainer, Leah Kalish, MA, taught us about “being in the Vertical versus Horizontal.” She was speaking to the idea of self-care. That it behooves every teacher or parent or caregiver to make taking...
Moving Out of the Pathology Paradigm
To me, the mindfulness movement has wonderfully enhanced our learning how to self-care, self-regulate, and be responsible for our own well-being and mental health. Because it encourages us to rest back, widen out, and notice without judgment, it also invites us to...
Self-Inquiry & Intention Setting
Over the years, I’ve learned that making time to both set intentions and to self-reflect always pays-off. Self-inquiry, as much as self-regulation, is an essential tool for personal growth, empowerment, and fulfillment. Everything works out better when I’m clear on...
You Teach Who You Are
For me, movement and mindfulness go together. They speak to the essence of being human, which is how we come into relationship with and respond to what arises in the dynamic, metabolic flow of energy that is our inner and outer lives. How we dance with our own...
Trainer Spotlight: Rosalie Tetreault
Rosalie has worked with young children, youth, families, and teachers in her community in southern California for the last 20 years. Her mission is to empower them to feel peaceful and to advocate for peace. I focus on sharing tools that support their self-care and...
A Great New Way to Engage Parents
I just discovered a new organization that you will all want to know about: Vroom! Vroom provides parents with support and specifics (in English and Spanish) on how to stimulate their child's brain during every day activities such as eating, bathing, dressing, and...
Bridging the Gap Between Policy & Practice
The continued “push-down” of academics to PreK and Kindergarten is frustrating to any early childhood educator and damaging to early learners. Wendy Lecker, columnist for Hearst Connecticut Media Group and senior attorney for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity project at...
Anywhere, Anytime Self-Regulation Tools for YOU
As an educator, I teach and regularly use the Adventure Skill self-care and regulation activities with children. Why? Because I believe that mindfulness and self-regulation are like motor skills. It takes lots of practice to embody them, especially in a world so high...
Make Friends with TIME
What if your new mantra was: I have plenty of time? Say it to yourself a few times .... let it sink in to your body and mind as fact. Let yourself feel that you have plenty of time. Notice your internal response. Did you soften, widen, slow down, take a deep breath?...
Movement & Mindfulness Curriculum Certification Intention
The 2015 roster of nationwide Movement & Mindfulness Curriculum Certifications are designed to give you – yoga instructors, movement teachers, early childhood educators, and therapeutic professionals with a yoga practice – the knowledge and resources to expand...
Self-Compassion – An Essential Practice for Well-being
I’ve been taking an online course created by the Greater Good Science Center called: The Science of Happiness. It is a comprehensive compilation of the research into what cultivates human happiness. Not surprising, personal happiness, correlated with greater...
Why Emotional Resilience Education & Training Should Be Core Curriculum
Stress and traumas, large and small, are a part of daily life in our new digital age. Online, we and our children witness regular devastation from crime and weather, wars and refugees, terrorism, teen suicide, cyber humiliation, addiction, abuse of all kinds, and...
3 Ways to MOVE MORE in Your Classroom with FELT
The research on the benefits of exercise for young and old, like self-regulation and mindfulness, is definitive. I think we can all agree how important movement is to well-being, development, learning, and behavior. We certainly don’t need more information to be...
Why Mindfulness Practices Are Worth Your Instructional Time
If you have not yet instituted regular rituals with your children that develop mindfulness, it’s time. The research from neuroscience, education, child development, and positive psychology all agree. Practices that cultivate self-awareness and the ability to self-care...
Interview with Playful Parenting Author, Larry Cohen
Explore the Value of Play with Expert Dr. Larry Cohen Play is often called the language of children. It is through play that children naturally relate to and learn about the world. Dr. Joseph C. Pearce, author of Magic Child and Evolution's End, described play as...
Interview with Vanessa Kahlon
In this informative interview with Leah, Vanessa shares about her work with children with special needs and how the MwM cards and video classes have supported kids become more confident and self-regulating. Vanessa Kahlon has been working with children with...
Mindful Class Management Interview with Leah Kalish
When we launched Move with Me Yoga Adventures 3 years ago, our first official customer feedback came from Mike Russo, Early Childhood Center Director, Davis-Munson Air Force Base. He wrote: The MwM Yoga Adventure Programs are so much more than kids exercise DVDs. ...
Interview with Brad Chapin of SelfRegulationStation.com
In this video, Leah Kalish interviews Brad Chapin of SelfRegulationStation.com Brad Chapin is a Masters Level Psychologist with a passion for helping others learn the skills necessary for success and happiness. He is a Best-Selling author and Nationally Recognized...
An Interview with Pediatric OT, Susan Guertin
Susan Guertin, a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and certified Yoga Ed. Instructor, has woven her passion for mindfulness and yoga into her programs for LD, behavior problems, and ASD. In 2008, she won 2 grants - one for sensory, mindfulness, and yoga...
3 Self Regulation Activites for Home or Classroom
The following videos demonstrate self regulation activities that you can use at home or in the classroom. These activities help children to calm, focus, get grounded into their bodies. As a result of this internal centering, executive function is improved and children...
Self Regulation Interview with Dr. Reggie Melrose
Leah Kalish interviews Dr. Reggie Melrose, Ph.D. Dr. Melrose is a Clinical Child and School Psychologist in private practice in Long Beach, CA. She is creator of Brain Charge: The K-12 Curriculum and the author of the ground-breaking books, You Can Heal Your...
Support Kids Brains & Bodies by De-Stressing Throughout the Day!
According to Dr. John Ratey, author of SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, “Exercise is miracle grow for the brain.” We recommend reading it. We believe that when you understand the science behind how exercise grows, builds, and fuels the...
5 Monthly Trainings….$1500 value at $0 cost to you!
"The Move-with-Me program has so much to offer. Our Head Start teachers benefited immensely from Leah's knowledge, resources, and enthusiasm and are already reporting that the Adventure Skills & Stories are making a positive impact on our classroom dynamics. ...
Naturally Self-Regulate for Better Learning, Behavior, & Achievement … Reminders from a Type A
I am a homeschooling parent, a skilled and knowledgeable movement specialist, and a brain science geek. I KNOW that less stress equals greater access. I teach self-care and regulation. I know that the endorphins released when we laugh, sleep, and move are natural...
Self-Regulation and Brain Development
Let Dr. Reggie Melrose explain the hierarchical development of the brain and how all our early experiences affect our ability to self-regulate, which she describes as the single most important capacity we can possess as human beings. With this understanding, we can...
3 Mind-Body Activities Kids Can Use to Self-Regulate When Stressed or Emotional
I love Dan Siegel’s book, The Whole Brain Child and recommend you read it! In easy to understand, everyday language, he both explains the development of brain and shows you how to support your children in becoming more mindful, self-aware, and self-regulating. ...
4 Tools to Help Young Children Self-Regulate & Focus
The ability to focus grows along with a child’s ability to self-regulate, and is just as important for both social and academic success. You can nurture its development by providing fun and compelling activities that require children to focus and sustain their focus....
5 Kids Yoga Poses for Self-Regulation at Home or Classroom
Ever wish you had a physical activity that could help children de-stress, calm down, return to balance, find center, and get grounded? Most of the time when children are beyond their own capacity to contain and control themselves, it’s because we have let them get...
4 Kids Yoga + Brain Gym Breathing Techniques that Develop Self- Regulation
Breathing techniques offer easy-to-practice activities for building basic self-regulation in the body of youngsters and in your classroom. When you connect children to an awareness of how they are breathing and give ways they can change and manage their breath...
Self-Regulation Starts at Home
Self-regulation isn’t just an at school SEL activity. Self-regulation is important for the whole family. Because children develop the ability to self-regulate by being around self-regulating adults, it’s crucial for parents, as well as teachers and care-givers, to...
Self-Regulation Skills for Preschoolers
Active play, sensory exploration, and self-care exercises are whole child activities that develop self-regulation and support all other learning. The more movement and mindfulness are integrated into early childhood education, the greater the development of focus and...
Being a Better Me in 2014
My only resolution for 2014 is to mindfully self-regulate – every 30 minutes! I have my phone chime set to remind me. When I hear it, I drop into ease and align with enjoyment. Regardless of what I’m doing, I decompress, widen my focus, open my heart, and become...
How Stories Focus our Attention & our Hearts to Enhance Memory & Empathy
In our homepage powerpoint, we site the work of Paul Zak. His research shows how stories stimulate both cortisol, which focuses attention and oxytocin, which activates empathy. By actually changing brain chemistry, stories are powerful motivators and teachers....
New Research Study on Use of Yoga Tools in Classrooms
During my tenure as Program Director of Yoga Ed. at The Accelerated School (TAS) in Los Angeles, I wrote and implemented a professional development training called: Tools for Teachers. Based on our initial success at TAS and the Los Angeles Unified School...
What about the BODY?
I just returned from the NAEYC conference in Washington DC. At the enormous and beautifully designed and equipped Kaplan section (they had a mini-stage and even a photo booth!), Wendy and I presented Move with Me Yoga Adventures' resources and curriculum (checkout...
The Story of Play vs Academics
Historically, the approach to early childhood education in the US has, for decades, swung between support for whole child development/ play and focus on cognitive development of the child / academics. In 1957, when the Russians won the race to space with the launching...
3 Simple Steps to a Stress Less Day
Teachers, parents, children … anyone - needs only three, simple, universal steps to a less stressful day. Drink water Pause to self-reflect & self-care ... then choose a brain-body-nervous system refresher Take 60-120 seconds to slowly and intentionally refresh...
Self-Regulation in the Digital World – A Necessary Balance
Our world is becoming increasingly digital. Technology is integrated into all aspects of our lives and has transformed how we engage in most of our activities - work, play, communication, entertainment, shopping, recording, and creating of all kinds. Scientists can...
Self Regulation Skill Building
Self regulation skill building is essential for a kind, harmonious and productive home or classroom. Why? Let's be honest. When emotions derail us from integrity with our principles and values, we make a mess and often damage relationships. If we get mired in “I’m...
A Child-care Provider’s Review of MwM’s Kids Yoga DVDs and Self Regulation Flash Cards
We love to do yoga at my daycare. I'm always looking for new tools to use with the kids to help in their yoga journeys. We usually do our yoga on days where the weather prohibits us from getting out outside play in, little bodies need to release that energy somehow!...
What is Self-Regulation?
The term "self-regulation" is being used more frequently, but what is self-regulation? The simple definition of self-regulation is: to govern oneself without outside assistance or influence. What’s not simple, however, is defining what it is to govern oneself and...
The Crazy House Reviews
Kids Yoga DVD Review on The Crazy House Reviews "If you are looking for a great way to get your little one's off the couch and moving around, I would definitely recommend you check out the website and read more about the program." Read the entire review on The Crazy...
A Bit of Everything
Kids Yoga DVD review from A Bit of Everything "If you're a homeschooling parent or have a toddler, then I think you're going to love this! Move With Me Action Adventures is a really unique and fun exercise set that is just like Yoga for children and parents to do...
Making Time for Mommy
Kids Yoga DVD Review from Make Time for Mommy "My kids love these fun movement stories that allow them to laugh, breathe and move their bodies in a manner that seems more fun than exercise." Read the entire review here: istheretimeformom.com ...
Self Regulation Skills on LATimes.com
Check out the Move with Me Action Adventures featured posts with videos about self-regulation skills on LA Times.com Deep down wisdom exercise can help calm child Cat Wisdom stretch helps kids relax Kids can smarten up with Monkey Wisdom Try This: 'Elephant ears'...
Self-Regulation Happens in the BODY!
A recent article in Developmental Psychology and Committee for Children reports that children with higher levels of self-regulation achieve higher scores in reading, vocabulary and math. As any therapist, teacher or parent, who has knowledge of sensory integration...
Executive Function – Better Behavior and More Learning
According to CA Head Start: Higher order thinking skills are crucial to a child’s success in school, and they are a challenge to support in the preschool classroom. Why? Because brain executive function mode requires physical well-being, emotional safety and embodied...
Time to Upgrade Your Movement & Mindfulness
The SPARK Foundation, along with many other non-profits, such as Let’s Move! Active Schools, are all dedicated to creating, implementing, and evaluating research-based programs that promote lifelong wellness. The resources and research on their sites are both...
Why Self-Regulation Skills Improve Kids Attention and Impulse Control
What is Self-Regulation? Self-regulation, the ability to monitor and manage your thoughts, feelings and behaviors, is the foundation for all other learning. Developing self-regulation skills such that you can cope well with stress and stay focused on task as needed...
Play and Movement – Essential Ingredients for Growing Minds and Bodies
Physical play and movement are essential for growing minds and bodies. When you nurture the body, physically, you nurture the mind, both cognitively and emotionally. Providing your students with opportunities for daily active, creative play is the best way to lay a...
You Are the Music in the Room
Have you ever noticed that when you are happy, clear and confident, your kids or students are too? When you take care of yourself and feel good, you are more able to enjoy the day, and what happens is manageable. You are able to embrace things rather than struggle...
Don’t forget to play, even when it’s grey!
It's grey, it's cold, everyone's been sick and you're totally uninspired. We all know the feeling. But don't let winter gloom and cabin fever turn you into a couch potato. Plan some FUN & EXERCISE! Active playtime is just as important as some extra doses of...
When weight holds you back as a child, it’s devastating…
I have a personal story that I would like to share with you. I grew up as an overweight child and it was really rough. I was bullied, limited by weight to participate in school activities like cheerleading, and incredibly uncomfortable in my own skin. I have a story,...
How YOU Can Help End Childhood Obesity
When weight holds you back as a child, it’s devastating... My friend, Francesca, grew up as an overweight child and it was really rough. She was bullied, limited by weight to participate in school activities like cheerleading, and incredibly uncomfortable in her own...
Youth Yoga Heroes – Part 3 – Kira Willey, Yummi Yogi, Om Schooled and Imaginations: Fun Relaxation Stories and Meditations for Kids
This post is a continuation of our Youth Yoga Movement Heroes series. We continue to extend our sincere gratitude to all those who have collaborated to support Move with Me in Partnership for a Healthier America’s End Childhood Obesity Innovation...
More Youth Yoga Movement Heroes – Part 2
This post is a continuation of our Youth Yoga Movement Heroes series. We continue to extend our sincere gratitude to all those who have collaborated to support Move with Me in Partnership for a Healthier America's End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge. We...
Youth Yoga Movement Heroes!
When Move with Me was selected as a semi-finalist in Partnership for a Healthier America's End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge we had no idea that the youth yoga community would answer our call for support with such a groundswell of generosity. Abby Wills of...
VIDEO – Cultivating compassion, kindness and gentleness in Kids: Feather Painting
Feather painting is a great way for children to practice the act of compassion, kindness and how to be gentle.
Yoga Community Unites to Support Move with Me Yoga Adventures in PHA’s End Childhood Obesity Challenge
Thank you everyone for your support thus far! Thank you Abby Wills of ShantiGeneration for uniting youth yoga leaders across the country to help us gain more votes and WIN the PHA'S Challenge. ShantiGeneration and dozens of other organizations have donated...
MwM Chosen as Semi-Finalist in Partnership for a Healthier America’s End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge
We are one of 10 Semi-Finalists Chosen by Partnership for a Healthier America! Vote for Move with Me to Win the End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge We at Move with Me are thrilled to announce that we are one of only 10 semi-finalists in the Partnership for a...
An interview with Dr.Tian Dayton
The following is an interview we conducted with Dr. Tian Dayton, MA, PH.D.,T.E.P. Dr. Dayton has a masters in educational psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology and is a board certified trainer in psychodrama. She is the director of The New York...
New Product: Adventure Skills Cards!
The Scooter & Me self-care exercises and self-regulation techniques on big, bright sturdy cards (5.5"x 8.5") Pre-order now for delivery in January! ...
Help kids learn to manage holiday stress!
Play and movement are essential for delightful, well-behaved children – all year long. This winter, help your children be the angels you know they can be by planning and sharing more active fun, even indoors; and by balancing the many stressors that arise during the...
Raise Funds for Your Organization this Holiday Season with MwM DVDs
Move with Me wants to help you raise funds for your organization this holiday season. You can help get kids learn self regulation skills and manage stress while creating revenue for your organization. We'll provide you with a unique coupon code and every time someone...
(VIDEO) Help Kids Release Stress and Relax
Early childhood poverty can significantly damage the development of self-regulation skills. This is one of the main causes for the socio-economic academic achievement gap. Self-regulation, the ability to monitor and manage one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, is...
Classroom Yoga Helps Improve Behavior Of Kids With Autism
Researchers have found that kids with autism spectrum disorder who did yoga at their elementary school behaved better than kids with autism who weren't doing yoga. The researchers surveyed teachers at a school in the Bronx who said a daily yoga program reduced...
(VIDEO) Help Kids learn how to ground, center and focus themselves by teaching them how!
If we are going to expect our children to focus on command, continually do their best, settle when asked, and manage their anger, frustration or upset in appropriate ways, we need to teach them HOW. We need to teach them a set of tools for self-care and regulation...
Self regulation skills to help kids improve attention and impulse control (VIDEO)
Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and manage your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. We are all doing it all the time. And it is essential for social and academic success. Learning to self-regulate is one of the big jobs of early childhood and a key component...
Motor Skill Delays Related to Academic & Social Skill Trouble?
Parent Alert! The growth of your child's brain is inseparably linked to their physical development. For children to babble, talk, think and comprehend the world, they must first have motor control. Recent research is showing that children's motor skill development is...
Improve Balance and Relieve Childhood Anxiety
By Rick Nauert PHD Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 24, 2009 "As increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with anxiety, researchers have discovered that the link between balance and anxiety can be assessed at an early age and that something can be...
Bilateral Exercises to Decrease Off-Task Behaviors in Special-Needs Preschoolers
By Dr. Jennifer Dustow, PHD In 2005 Jennifer Dustow conducted her doctorial thesis on specific intentional movement in a special needs pre-school classroom. Nine special-needs students attending a public elementary school participated and all showed a significant...
Support for Children with Special Needs
Movement has been shown especially effective for children with special needs. Teaching Yoga to Children with Special Needs Manual and DVD, written by Craig Hanauer and edited and produced by Leah Kalish. Every Kid's Yoga, appropriate for special needs children with...
Studies Show Play and Brain Development Connected
There is a growing body of evidence and writing on the link between play, exercise and the healthy growth and development of our brain. In sorting through relevant studies and articles, the following two links are worth highlighting for their simplicity, ease of...
How Yoga, Movement, and Active Play Support the Whole Child Model of Learning, Developmental Goals, and Curriculum Standards
Children are always learning. They learn from every interaction they have with the world and those interactions are with their whole body-mind-heart. The 3 basic areas of our brains, per the triune brain theory, work together to receive, process and integrate our...
Why Early Childhood Programs are important for Future Emotional and Physical Health
Teaching at the Head Start Health Institute is a joy for me. I love connecting and contributing to the participants and other educators. I'm engaged by the information shared by the other presenters and speakers. And I'm inspired by the Head Start organization and...