Skill: Balance

Safe exploration builds physical literacy, confidence and curiosity

It’s time to encourage safely crawling up stairs, balance skills, and playing

These fundamental movement skills will help your preschool child become physically literate

Physical literacy is when kids have developed the skills, confidence, and love of movement to be active for life. Here are some simple ways you can gauge the state of your child’s physical literacy.

Yet fitness a proven strategy to help thwart the negative behaviours associated with the condition

Diversity, as opposed to specialization, is demonstrably beneficial in developing physical literacy

Do you want your child to be physically literate? Dr. Vicki Harber urges us to hear the call of the wild. A professor of physical education and recreation at the University of Alberta, Dr. Harber is a leading Canadian researcher in the area of physical literacy. She says the outdoors plays a critical role in … Continued

Here’s a great indoor or outdoor activity to get your preschool-age child developing important movement skills: walking a tightrope! How to teach your child to walk on a tightrope: Find a thin piece of rope or a long piece of ribbon. Stretch the rope or ribbon out on the floor of your living room. (If … Continued