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One more activity that I've always loved... child is in the swing over my gymnastics mats and I spray several piles of Fun House bath soap all around them. They swirl the colors, isolate fingers in different patterns to make designs, and I use them as a human spirograph as well. They are so motivated that I get twice as long neck/full body extension out of them! (The "human spirograph activity is used when the child is fatiguing quickly from using surface muscles to extend. I can give them the 3 quick extractions at their heel cords to activate the extensors before I start spinning them around. The designs they make are really quite beautiful!
Regarding the ATNR exercise at the end of this video. Say the child's arm(s) flex or collapse during this activity. If this keeps happening to them, I assume we are just making that retained reflex worse (or, at the least, not any better). So what to do? I am worried if we tell them to focus on not bending, they will just end up locking their elbows.
You can continue to do the exercise and help them become aware of their elbows and focus on not letting them bend, without locking out! We'd also recommend specific primitive reflex integration exercises, which we teach in our course!
If you enjoyed the video and want to dive deeper into Primitive Reflexes, make sure to check out our full course on testing and integrating primitive reflexes! 👇
harkla.co/products/primitive-reflexes-course
One more activity that I've always loved... child is in the swing over my gymnastics mats and I spray several piles of Fun House bath soap all around them. They swirl the colors, isolate fingers in different patterns to make designs, and I use them as a human spirograph as well. They are so motivated that I get twice as long neck/full body extension out of them! (The "human spirograph activity is used when the child is fatiguing quickly from using surface muscles to extend. I can give them the 3 quick extractions at their heel cords to activate the extensors before I start spinning them around. The designs they make are really quite beautiful!
That sounds like SO much fun! Thanks for sharing!!
Regarding the ATNR exercise at the end of this video. Say the child's arm(s) flex or collapse during this activity. If this keeps happening to them, I assume we are just making that retained reflex worse (or, at the least, not any better). So what to do? I am worried if we tell them to focus on not bending, they will just end up locking their elbows.
You can continue to do the exercise and help them become aware of their elbows and focus on not letting them bend, without locking out! We'd also recommend specific primitive reflex integration exercises, which we teach in our course!
Could you do these same things with a compression sock that children use in the school?
sure!
Hello! Can this be used a regular yoga swing?
Hi! Maybe?!