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This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
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Kids and their body skills (19)
I’m reading a (German) book on kids’ body development that I picked up in a bookstore in Dresden this summer. I won’t get into details here, but the numbers are rather shocking. The amount of time kids (in this case based on German research, but the numbers could easily be representative for the whole of Europe) spend on playing outside and using their body to walk, run, play games, balance on walls, etc. dropped dramatically over the past decades.
Obviously sitting in front of the TV and playing video games have great impact on what kids nowadays learn in terms of body skills. At my fencing club I’ve seen quite a number of kids that can barely catch a ball, can’t jump rope or balance on 1 foot for more than 5 seconds at age 8/9/10.
Reading this book helps me to help ‘my’ kids develop their body movements better. Even if it’s only an hour and a half a week I coach them. Baby steps count too
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