A brief insight from an early childhood perspective. Early childhood is an extremely important period for children to develop their gross motor skills. Research indicates that those children who are ...

In a Montessori classroom, gross motor activities come in the form of free play on the playground and are worked in ...

Many babies go from crib to crawling in their first year or so. One moment they’re lying on a playmat and the next they're already rolling, crawling and cruising around the living room. So what are ...

Children are biologically programmed to use their whole bodies to explore and interact with their physical environment. Through crawling, walking, running, rolling, jumping and balancing, they are ...

Children’s gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are just about fully developed around this age, although they will continue to be refined over the next few years as your child learns ...

The relationship of childhood overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) with motor skill and coordination is gaining due attention; however, longitudinal evidence is currently lacking. The evolution in the ...