Why do children progress so rapidly in their neuro-muscular development? Children progress from being unable to hold up the weight of their head, to crawling, sitting, standing and running typically in a period of no more than a year or two at most. We typically write it off as its easy for children because – we claim that – children are growing, therefore its easier for them, its easy for them to progress… but is it? Think about it.
What if you all of a sudden your limbs started growing and growing, the proportions of your body started changing and changing drastically? What if everything in your body was changing… and changing all at once. Is it really easier for children? If you think about it, its actually harder for children to develop as they are dealing with a body that doesn’t remain the same at all, not just for days but for months at a time they grow until there is a pause, and then they grow again inches at a time.
Imagine trying to learn how to catch a ball, how to throw a ball, how to stand, run, jump when everyday as a child your body is different!
Everyday something is longer… arms grow, legs grow, their torso grows.
Everyday something is larger… feet, hands.
Everyday something changes, yet despite the changes and the rapidity of these changes children develop. How?
Children develop at astonishing rates despite the challenges of an ever changing body because they have not yet learnt to care what anyone else thinks : they are free of the limited thinking, of the judgement, the comparison, the conformity that society demands from each and every each individual who seeks entry into the inner circle of those who are considered ‘A-listers’. Without the pressure of caring what anyone else thinks… children are free, free to be themselves, free to explore, free to try anything and everything without WORRY of ‘what if’? Without a care of what anyone else thinks, children find an innate confidence to try… almost anything! Children explore their world, they explore their potential because they are open to the moment, they are RELAXED.