Daily Maestroism

DM #123

Friday, September 23rd, 2016

DM #123: “Kids need to go through the developmental stages and not be pressured to advance too quickly.” Now, I am by NO means a pediatric therapist ? but Amy Manuel is, and I took these quotes directly from her. Amy reached out to me the other day and dropped some pediatric knowledge bombs that I had to share. (As an aside, I LOVE hearing from you all, so please don't every hesitate to hit me up with ideas, requests, or to just say hi! ??) Anyway, I'm always talking about using developmental progressions for training adults, but guess where we got those progressions from?! Watching children!

We gotta let the little ones do what they're supposed to do and stop rushing things! Each and every stage serves as a building block for the next, allowing the child to develop the appropriate stability, mobility, and strategies to be successful with tasks that have increasing postural demands.
Crawling allows for closed chain weight bearing through the upper extremity, with the added demand of movement, weight shifting, and reciprocal patterning involving the lower extremities. Pretty cool stuff! ? We're loading the shoulder girdle, we're exploring the ground with our hands, we're stimulating that system in a whole new way. Skip this step and you miss out on a ton.
Long story short: Stop rushing to get your kids up on two feet. Things take time for a reason.
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