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What Toddlers Can Teach Us About Back Pain & Healthy Aging Toddlers may need grown-ups to teach them how to tie a shoe and use the potty, but when it comes to knowing how to sit, stand, bend and walk with ease, toddlers become the teachers. Moreover, toddlers, in spite of their tender age, hold […]

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Guiding Our Children by Empowering Them Almost every parent has experienced the frustration of telling their child to “sit up straight,” only to see them sink back into the same familiar collapsed heap within minutes, if not moments. This is because the way we’ve all been taught to “correct” our slouching posture—lifting the chest up […]

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Sitting is Getting a Bum Rap You hear it being said everywhere these days: Sitting is the scourge of modern living, the cause of so many of our aches and pains. It makes sense we might think so, given the hours of uncomfortable sitting people everywhere experience while working at computers and desk jobs. One […]

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Autism, Head Lag and the Core ofWellbeing

March 10, 2013 By naturaltothecore in Uncategorized 1 Comment

A newborn, when lifted from a supine position by its arms, will not be able to hold its head up. The head flops back in what is commonly referred to as “head lag.” This is entirely normal for a brand new baby, and almost everyone assumes this is the result of the baby not yet having had an opportunity to develop strength in his or her neck muscles.

By the age of three or four months, however, a...

After delivering a presentation at a conference on children’s learning disabilities not long ago, I was approached by a number of parents whose children are challenged by various neurological conditions,most especially Autism Spectrum Disorders. One after another, these parents said essentially the same thing: “You just described my child!”

This may have been a surprise to them, but thestory I had just told, using images as much as words, is one shared by many babies in our modern world who...

*Belly up = bankrupt, obsolete   Before anything else is said (or written : ), I want to clearly state that I don’t believe a baby’s sleep position—whether on the back or on the belly—is, in and of itself, is a huge deal, provided that each baby spends ample time on the belly while awake. (The reasons for […]

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After workingfor what feels like forever, I finally finished BORN TO MOVE, adocumentary of sorts that puts a spotlight on the importanceof natural movement in early infancy. Whathasmade this a tad scary for me, in sending itout into the world, is that I’ve raised questions about a number of “unmentionables” such as SIDS, co-sleeping or bed sharing, the “Back-to-Sleep” campaign, flat heads, wry necks, autism, motor delays—and the underlying culture of fear that lurks like th...

After workingÂfor what feels like forever, I finally finished BORN TO MOVE, aÂdocumentary of sorts that puts a spotlight on the importanceÂof natural movement in early infancy. WhatÂhasÂmade this a tad scary for me, in sending itÂout into the world, is that Iâve raised questions about a number of âunmentionablesâ such as SIDS, co-sleeping or bed sharing, the âBack-to-Sleepâ campaign, flat heads, wry necks, autism, motor delaysâand the underlying culture of fear that lurks like the proverbia...

The Sixth Hindrance First in a series of articles about Mindfulness and the Body Mindfulness is finally becoming mainstream! And not a moment (pardon me : ) too soon, for little else could be more beneficial to our individual health, our relationships with others, and the overall wellbeing of our planet. Characterized by a quality of attention to one’s moment-to-moment experience—without judging it to be good or bad, right or wrong—mindfulness, simply put, is the acceptance of what is, in any...