6 Essential Exercises for Movement & Milestone Development*

The purpose of these exercises is to teach you a skill set you can use in the home to initiate milestone movement patterns for your child.

You are not teaching your child to mimic a movement. You are teaching them to do transitional milestone movements. 

Transitional milestone movements are the movements that happen between milestones movements; in other words, teaching your child the necessary movement.

• to independently get an arm off the floor and to reach (reaching),
• to get the head off the floor and into the air (successful tummy time),
• to go from the back to the front and the front to the back (rolling over),
• to independently get in and out of sitting and so on.

At a minimum, take 15 minutes a day, working on each side of the body, and go through each of these exercises.

It doesn't matter if your child is an infant, baby, toddler, teen, adult, for any person to have movement success, these...