Enlisting our children’s help around the house when it comes to cleaning up after themselves and other chores, is not only a wonderful life skill, but has many gross motor and fine motor benefits too!
This week Physiotherapist Julia Lee-Sylvester is sharing some wonderful “activities of daily life” for your @home gross motor and fine motor programme.
“As a neurodevelopmental therapist, one of my goals when working with children is to promote functional independence. Some might call these chores or life skills.
It’s good to be mindful that when we do include our kids in an activity, the process is more important than the result and there will likely be lots of mess 😉
Parents, for some their child helping them with chores or activities of daily life can be triggering and result in anxiety for you or your child. We can’t and do not need to include or stimulate them all at time!
When I find myself getting frustrated I stop and ask myself (after a few deep breaths); what would I like to be the memory we make here? Perfectly baked and iced cupcakes but an incredibly stressed out mom or an average batch of cupcakes that look like a dogs breakfast but a fun time had by all? Take the pressure off, especially during these difficult times we find ourselves in currently.” – Julia
