Coming home from music class on Saturday, he wanted to play with his Little Tikes car (sit in/ride in car) & did not want to go inside the house.
Papa's car was parked in the car porch, leaving very little space for him to play but it was not a barrier for him. He still had his fun!
Gross Motor
He pushed his car around papa's car, maneouvering so well that he missed hitting papa's car by 1 cm most times. He moves it very well around the pillars; knows how to avoid going over the tiled edge; makes u-turns; controls the speed rolling downwards to stop just in time to avoid knocking into the gate; gets the positioning right to avoid the opened windows and yet avoid getting into the bushes.
He knows how to ever so slightly adjust his muscle strength, co-ordinate between left & right movements & his arms & legs. I found it quite amazing for a boy with cerebral palsy to be able to do that. This is a boy who even last year, would run and fall over nothing; who would be walking then turn to go right or left & tip over.
As I observed him, I knew that these are the things that would escape the attention of parents of able-bodied kids. It's simply amazing how much goes on in the body & brain to walk, run & in this case, push around his Little Tikes car.
This isn't the first time he's pushed it around. He does it often. He's had a lot of fun with it (& practice). He's such an expert now. It's also not the first time I've seen him doing it at the 'expert level'. I've just not had time to write about it. Lately he's been playing like this while wearing his Neurosuit so perhaps it helped him progress to the 'expert level'.
Papa's car was parked in the car porch, leaving very little space for him to play but it was not a barrier for him. He still had his fun!
Gross Motor
He pushed his car around papa's car, maneouvering so well that he missed hitting papa's car by 1 cm most times. He moves it very well around the pillars; knows how to avoid going over the tiled edge; makes u-turns; controls the speed rolling downwards to stop just in time to avoid knocking into the gate; gets the positioning right to avoid the opened windows and yet avoid getting into the bushes.
He knows how to ever so slightly adjust his muscle strength, co-ordinate between left & right movements & his arms & legs. I found it quite amazing for a boy with cerebral palsy to be able to do that. This is a boy who even last year, would run and fall over nothing; who would be walking then turn to go right or left & tip over.
As I observed him, I knew that these are the things that would escape the attention of parents of able-bodied kids. It's simply amazing how much goes on in the body & brain to walk, run & in this case, push around his Little Tikes car.
This isn't the first time he's pushed it around. He does it often. He's had a lot of fun with it (& practice). He's such an expert now. It's also not the first time I've seen him doing it at the 'expert level'. I've just not had time to write about it. Lately he's been playing like this while wearing his Neurosuit so perhaps it helped him progress to the 'expert level'.
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