Just the other day I happened to wake up early. That is unusual for an engineering student. After a long time I could witness the sunrise. I could feel the sun rays falling on my body. Usual morning is followed by hustle to make it to college on time. This morning was just another morning yet seemed different.
Witnessing calm and quiet atmosphere, clear and fresh air seemed like a miracle to me. I wanted this time to last longer since I was not sure if I would be able to witness it again, knowing my habit of succumbing to schedule. There was this unusual serenity that comforted my mind. It dawned on me, how distant I had been from nature. Standing near the compound’s gate, feeling the moistness that the air carried, I thought about my life so far.
I was good at academics, so decisions of my life had been pretty simple and straight. Being pretty confident I would make it to the best junior college of my town in the first round itself, never made me consider any other option. I loved psychology since childhood, but engineering was the safest option. Being born in a middle class family, thinking of risking your career to make it to medical field was not sane. I grew up hearing ‘Only doctor’s children can afford that field’ and finally ended up believing it. No one around me believed in taking risks. Everyone worshiped security. I grew up doing the same.
‘Being in the top will only grant you a good life’ has been the mantra of my life. But at times, I wish I was an average student. I wish decisions would have not been so straightforward. Maybe I would have played cricket- the only thing I feel passionate about. Or maybe I would have studied literature (literature drives me crazy). Isn’t that disappointing- me wishing to be bad at academics. It’s like at times I hate myself for the stuff I am good at.
This is what has happened to us. We want the things we have been doing forcefully to fail. And then maybe people around us would let us try something else or our dreams. We are accustomed to live by everyone else’s definition of success. We punish people for the things they are passionate about, just because we were unable to do the same at some point in our life.
I feel like these concrete buildings have sucked our desires and our dreams. We are so used to comfort that compromise seems like a taboo. We have lost faith in ourselves. If we can make through it right now, we can do the same in the days to come. You only need a desire to survive and nothing more- not money or cars or designer clothes.
Staying locked up in four walls have restricted our thinking. I feel like our limited thinking echoes through this wall. We are so used to schedules and predictable life that we have successfully suppressed our creative side.
When you step out of these four walls on a peaceful morning, you realize how much nature has to offer to you. Its boundless. Your thoughts, worries, deadlines won’t resonate here. Everything will flow away along with the wind. And you will realize every answer you had been looking for, was always known to you.
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Le programme a été créé en Australie en 1983 par Margaret Sase, mère de cinq enfants et experte en développement précoce. Aujourd’hui, KindyROO est présent dans plus de 15 pays et encourage toujours la croissance naturelle et saine des bébés et des enfants jusqu’à l’âge de 5 ans. Son succès réside dans les expériences motrices et sensorielles cohérentes, stimulantes et adaptées à l’âge qui favorisent le bon développement du cerveau.
À cet âge, les tout-petits marchent avec plus grand équilibre, courent partout et escaladent tout. Le saut est la nouvelle compétence excitante à cet âge avec deux pieds ensemble, et bien sûr suspendu avec deux mains et bras ensemble. Pour certains, le discours se développe, tandis que d’autres perfectionnent encore leur motricité. Les tout-petits commencent à comprendre les mots descriptifs, tels que «grand» et «petit», et les mots concept tels que «plus» et «moins».Lier le mot au mouvement intègre vraiment le concept dans l’esprit. Ces concepts sont importants pour les compétences d’écriture plus tard – pour écrire une lettre dont vous avez besoin pour déplacer le crayon vers le haut, le bas et autour pour créer la forme requise.
Wallabies sont vraiment en train de sauter sur tout ce qu’ils peuvent trouver. Chaque hémisphère du cerveau peut maintenant contrôler les mouvements de chaque côté du corps de façon coordonnée et, au bout de 20 mois, beaucoup peuvent réellement bouger leurs parties du corps par leurs propres moyens. C’est à cet âge que les enfants commencent à penser qu’ils ont le contrôle de leur corps. Chez KindyROO, toutes nos activités sont donc ralenties afin que les enfants aient le temps de se déplacer. C’est ainsi qu’ils apprennent à perfectionner leur conscience corporelle et le contrôle de leurs mouvements.
Platypus classes provide lots of ideas about how best to create the right environment for healthy development. We show you song and movement ideas and let you know about what’s happening in different areas of development, such as vision, hearing, movement and touch.
Now that your baby is moving, the floor is his/her playground. In this age group we show you how to use the floor to your baby’s best advantage. It’s cheap and easy, but you need to make it a safe place for your baby to explore and roam freely. We provide loads of ideas about music, rhythm and movement, successful massage techniques for wrigglers and squirmers, movement ideas and games that will have your baby in fits of laughter.
Wallabies are really into jumping on and off anything they can find. Each hemisphere of the brain can now control the movements of each side of the body in coordination and, by 20 months, many can actually move their body parts on their own.
Wow! Children of this age think the world is theirs. They are unaware that their little brains have yet to fully develop the ability to function so that the left and right sides of the body can manage different tasks and accomplish different skills – hopping is an excellent example because as one foot hops the other is held up doing something different. This enables the development of many skills, such as riding a tricycle, peeling a banana and washing up. This function may have begun during the early months of the two year old, but now it blossoms.
Possums love to hang, swing, climb, run, gallop, hop and somersault – in fact they love all movement. They are also becoming far more social and enjoy playing with other children. At KindyROO we encourage greater team work and provide Sensory Perceptual Motor Stimulation circuits that promote sensory integration and laterality – very important for children of this age who need further consolidation. At the same time we introduce more cross pattern activities, where the right side of the body is balanced by the use of the opposite arm or leg in throwing, walking, running etc. This is in order to further develop the higher areas of the brain.
For children to learn easily at school, they must have automatic movement skills. They must be able to use one part of their body independently from other parts, be able to cross over the midline of the body, and be able to sit still when required. Children who have difficulties with these motor skills will have more difficulty with reading, writing and general classroom coping skills.