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Promoting Physical Development in Children
Physical development in children is an ongoing process:
The development of gross and fine motor skills, muscle development, even the
capabilities of their own senses. Physical development in children covers a
great deal of territory.
Gross Motor Skills – These cover the ability to carry
out broad muscular functions, such as crawling, walking, sitting up, or rolling
over on one’s back. To promote this physical development in children, engage in
games and activities that require movement. Child gymnastics or karate are
ideal uses of one’s body for such development.
Fine Motor Skills – Here children learn how to carry
out more delicate movements of their fingers, and learn hand-eye co-ordination.
These skills, then, require an ability to manipulate ones hand and fingers with
specific and careful detail. They will become necessary as a child learns to
use a fork, write, and dress themselves.
Muscle strength – This can be done easily enough by
providing the means with which children can play and be active. Aside from the
obvious benefit of their engaging in activities that require arm and leg
movement, it also limits the child’s television viewing time - a habit that can
easily devolve into hours of stagnant, non-activity.
Sense training – A child’s sense of sight develops
rapidly between the ages of 1 and 2. By their second year they usually have
20/20 eyesight, and can distinguish colors. Hearing will also develop early on,
as early in fact as 15 months. By then the child will be able to distinguish
different objects by name, even if they aren’t yet capable of saying them.
Touch is just as important to the developing child, not only because of the
exploring they do with their fingers. They are also very dependant on the
tactile connection to their parents. Holding, hugging and kissing are very
important to the child’s sense of well-being. *
A great help in all of these factors of physical
development in children is The Little Gym’s Parent Child Classes. Created for
children from infancy to 3 years of age, children and parents do stretching,
tumbling, running and jumping. Children learn basic motor skills, social
skills, and self-confidence. This is all done with educational tools, such as
sing alongs and physical games, which encourage children to interact with each
other. These promote their sensory skills, and progressively move them towards
greater independence.
If you and your child want to enroll in physical
development in children classes, come and visit The Little Gym® today.
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