Sep 15, 2016
If you have a child that’s struggling at home or at school, with
discipline, academics, health, or getting along with other kids,
then do we have the balanced and barefoot show for you.
Today I’ll be talking with Angela J. Hanscom, pediatric
occupational therapist, founder of Timbernook, an award-winning
development and nature based program, and the author of a fantastic
new book, I couldn’t put down, Balanced and Barefoot.
And that’s just what we’ll be talking about today. About how
unrestricted outdoor play makes for strong, confident, and capable
children.
That plus we’ll talk about tummy time, spinning caurosels,
climbing trees, getting lost, eating dirt, playing in the dark, the
power of Alpacas, playing in the rain, why we might want to put our
babies out in the cold, the power of spinning, loose parts, and why
flying from swingsets, just may be the greatest thrill in the
world!
Happy Healthy Children Self-Improvement and Self-Help Parenting
Topics Include:
- What was happening with Angela’s daughter?
- Why our expectations for kids are not necessarily
developmentally appropriate
- What’s going on with child development today
- What has happened to kids core strength and balance skills
- What is Tummy Time?
- Why do kids need floor time?
- What is active play for kids?
- What’s the importance of crossing the midline
- What’s container baby syndrome (and what do flat heads have to
do with anything)?
- What’s the harm of restricting children’s movement?
- What’s the importance of the outdoors?
- What it means that nature is the ultimate sensory
experience
- What’s wrong with bright colors and things on the wall in
classrooms, nursery, and kindergarten
- What’s wrong with trying to ‘engage’ the child in school
- Why kids need to climb trees
- What’s wrong with putting ‘safety first’ for our kids
- What’s the importance of dirt and what’s the hygiene
hypothesis?
- What we can learn from Lenore Skenazy author of Free Range
Kids
- What’s developmentally appropriate freedom for kids at
different ages
- How spinning improves attention (for students with ADD and ADHD
too)
- What’s wrong with today’s playgrounds
- What are ‘loose parts’ for kids?
- What’s wrong with recesses today?
- What’s the challenge with organized sports for children
today?
- How much outdoor time should parents give kids get at different
ages – and how can it help a child’s development?
- What’s unique about what they do with children in Sweden and
Finland?
- What you should look for in an environment to raise your
children
- Is boredom okay for children
- What are some of the biggest fears of parents?
- What is Timbernook, Timbernook.com
Angela Hanscom on the Importance of Nature for Kids Health,
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