Never lift if you can avoid it

Never lift if you can avoid it

We lift our children hundreds of times a day. Over time, this adds up to a huge amount of lifting.

  • Find out first to many times you are actually lifting your children.
  • Some times lifting cannot be avoided. But can you make out other times?
  • Every time you lift a child, you limit it`s movement opportunities and abilities.
  • Pay attention to your habits. Plan for more time.
  • Be aware of your own body and position.
  • Wherever you can, find ways to give the child the opportunity to help you.
  • Think about where your child might be able to do something on its own.
  • Think about whether there are some changes you could make to the environment - changing the diapers on the floor, getting an extra chair in the bathroom.
  • Take some time to make some every day moves more functional for you - and your child. Pick one movement at a time - like getting dressed, or helping the child to sit at the table - and make it into an exercise.

Making movements functional

What does that have to do with working with your child at home? This way of handling your children encourages you to think, reevaluate and use their abilites. It invites you to think about their movement patterns, their weight, to watch their reactions. Apart from the fact that it will help you to take care of yourself, this approach is shifting your understanding of movement. It is a great mental exercise to prepare you for working with childen. It helps children to practise their movement in everyday life. It encourages movement.

Getting your children ready for therapy can be therapy.

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Here is the next advice: Never lift if you can avoid it.

Your life is probably busy. You have other things to do, to cook, clean, work, take care of other children.

Your child has time. Don`t think I have to get the child ready, and then we will do therapy. Getting the child ready, if done well, IS therapy.

We are using the child`s skeleton. Teaching him movements he will be able to do one day.

What happens to the child. Being lifted means some movement in the hips, but never a movement it could do by himself. There is no involvement of the spine, the shoulder blade lifts, but hanging isn`t very comfortable, it is not easy to breathe in this position.








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