Crossing the midline

[Mum2SweetCs]

Ive had a glimpse of braingym but can only find information on courses available?

Do they have like activites or lessons for children?

Anyone know if they have something like little ahtletics ?

Thanks

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Have only just seen this and thought that I would add that Gymbaroo exercises are helpful for crossing the midline. There are many that they do in their 3years+ class and school readiness class. One in particular is called '"crocodiles".

1st stage - homolateral
Have your child lay on their stomach on the floor. Have their head facing right. Bend their right knee up and their right arm so that their fingers are almost touching their nose. Massage (eg roll with a rolling pin) down the right side of their body, telling them that this is their bent side, this is their right side. Then do a different massage down the left side (say walking with your fingers) and tell them that this is their straight side, this is their left side.

Get the child to swap sides - turn head to the left, bend left knee up and left arm to tickle their nose. You may have to position them early on, but after practice they should be able to get into position on their own. Repeat the massage for left and right sides (rolling pin on left this time and finger walking on right).

Repeat the swapping sides, using a clap as a signal to swap sides.

Once they are proficient at this (able to effectively swap sides without assistance) you can move to cross pattern
This time position so that when facing the right side right arm is still tickling nose, but left leg is bent up. Massage is diagonally across the bent body parts then straight body parts. Then clap to swap and they need to turn head to the left, bend left arm and right leg. Repeat until they can make the changes fluidly.

You can do this exercise every day.

There are a number of other ones - eg passing a small beanbag around your waist behind you, making actions to songs (like the wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish, where you need to swish right across your body), making diagonal stripes with a ribbon on a stick from top left to bottom right and vice versa, marching with swinging arms and you can probably make up a few - anything where you need to have one part of your body moving across the midline or coordinating left and right movements of different body parts.

Good luck