Helping your child to strengthen their fine motor skills

Fine motor skills, what are they? This is the use of the small muscles in our hands, wrists, fingers, feet and toes. Fine motor skills involve movement of small muscles in your child’s body that requires the brain to coordinate between the action and what is being seen. Fine motor skills can impact simple activities such as using a fork to and using a pencil to write. They start to develop and strengthen as your child uses the muscles more and more. Some of the best ways to develop these muscles is by learning how to grasp, hold, press and use pincer grips. But what makes them so important? These skills will ensure that your child will be able to complete daily activities such as buttoning up his shirt and tying their own shoe laces. You'll find that your child’s self-confidence and ability is affected too. Here is some advice from a boarding school in the South East on helping a child to strengthen their fine motor skills.

4 Learning benefits of pull along toys that iPad games cannot offer

Kids seem to have never-ending reserves of energy when it comes to playing. And they sleep like a log afterwards unlike grownups. The grownups wish if they could play and sleep like the kids.

Whether the kids are playing with their pull along toys or having a sound sleep cuddling their teddy bear, they look adorable. In not so distant past, one of the prime entertainment resources of kids was physical toys like push and pull along toys. Though the toys aren’t gone yet, the playtime is being shared by video games, and it is gradually increasing. Extended screen time is not healthy for the cognitive development of children, which means we must understand the current shift to video games, and the effectiveness of push and pull along toys.

Nutrition for little ones on the move.

It feels as if Jelly Bean's time as a little baby passed in a blink of an eye. Even when he was a newborn he was strong and determined. He was holding his head up, pushing to stand up and rolling over from young. Those newborn days of a sleepy baby only kicking his legs about and waving his arms but not going anywhere were soon forgotten and he was on the move!

At 5 months he was commando crawling everywhere and traditional crawling soon followed suit, with him being able to cross a room very swiftly.