Hop, Skip and Jump: Exercises, Activities and Games to Increase Your Child's Movement, Posture and Balancing - Softcover

Walker, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190325843X ISBN 13: 9781903258439

Publisher: Carroll & Brown Publishers Limited, 2002

Synopsis

The most important period of a child's physical growth comes with the first few years of life, as your child develops after birth and learns to walk. This engaging and informative book shows parents how to encourage strength, suppleness and flexibility - the three main attributes of health and fitness - during these formative years. These fun and therapeutic exercises and games can maintain your child's coordination, help them to relax, encourage the release of physical tension, and improve abdominal breathing. Easy to use with step-by-step photographs and instructions, the book will promote naturally the healthy development of children while creating lasting emotional bonds between them and their parents. Hop, Skip and Jump is a fun-filled way of encouraging strength, suppleness and flexibility in your baby, and aiding healthy development. After an introduction on the benefits of soft gymnastic games in development, the book is divided into chapters according to age - From birth to three months; From four months to twelve months; From thirteen months to three years; and For Young Children. - Provides a wide range of safe and enjoyable games from birth to pre-school. - Outlines the "do's" and "don'ts" of soft baby gymnastics. - Highlights the main physical - strength, balance, posture, flexibility, mobility - and emotional - relaxation, self-awareness, reduced anxiety, interaction, bonding - benefits of each exercise. - Imaginative exercises and interactive activities for older toddlers help maintain and improve agility and balance. - Promotes trust and confidence between child and parent. - Large, step-by-step photographs and easy-to-use captions ensure the routines are easy to follow. - Advises how to establish your own routine of games and exercises that fit in with the time available and your baby's particular needs. - Includes games to help children with special needs or childhood traumas.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Walker is already well established as an author with several books on parenting having been published. He is the recognised expert on Baby Massage and his Baby Massage books sell into 22 different countries. He leads workshops all over the UK for health care professionals from around the world, and his teacher training course is accredited by Greenwich University, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Brown Publishers Limited
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190325843X
• ISBN 13: 9781903258439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96