4 Urgent Brain Food
Why is dancing with children so urgent? Because we adults shuffle the child from place to place without noticing that the child’s job is to feed their brain so it can grow. Dance is the major way they make connections with the body. This is their “occupation.”
Toddlers dance and we are delighted but when an older child explores a movement over and over in public, we feel like it is our job to nip that action in the bud. Crawling over and under the chairs in the airport is for us dangerous and unsanitary. Yes, we need to make our judgement calls, but the activity is what the child has chosen to build their brain at that moment.
Like in the airport, we stop children’s brain feeding times at all times of the day and at any location. When the child is exploring movement, we either do not notice or we judge their occupation to be a low priority.
How can we expect anything but computer and game addiction if we have ignored the child’s basic brain food, dancing.
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