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18/08/2025

For those with teeny tiny people in the home, this is a really good page to follow for movement ideas at home. Building brains and healthy little bodies.

15/08/2025

10/08/2025

09/08/2025

Let this sink in 🤔

03/08/2025

Pack away the tablets, phones and video games for a bit.

⭐Exciting new article: ⭐ The Importance of Skipping with a Rope.

Extensive research from the Mind Moves Institute confirms that most learners with emotional, behavioural, and academic challenges retain active primitive reflexes beyond the typical developmental window.

While primitive reflexes are adaptive and functional during infancy (up to 6 months post-term), they become maladaptive if retained beyond this age, impeding neurodevelopment.

✨ Neurodevelopment refers to the brain's capacity to establish and refine neural pathways necessary for:
✅ learning
✅ memory
✅ concentration
✅ posture
✅ emotional regulation
✅ self-control

🧩 It’s not random - it follows an innate, hierarchical blueprint.

Mind Moves is a structured movement programme designed for the classroom and home. It targets primitive reflexes, guiding them to full maturation and integration through repetitive, specific movement patterns.

🔓 Once these reflexes are integrated, the “survival brain” is relieved of primitive motor responses, allowing the “thinking brain” to focus on higher cognitive functions like:
📖 reading
➗ numeracy
🧠 problem-solving
📊 executive functioning

💬 According to Melodie, “movement is medicine.” 💃🕺
This captures why skipping with a rope is such a powerful, playful therapeutic tool—it supports postural development and neuro-integration.

🤸‍♀️ Mastering this gravity-defying movement reflects the maturation of balance, coordination, and sensory-motor integration.

Read more here:👉 https://www.mindmoves.co.za/2025/07/31/the-importance-of-skipping-with-a-rope/

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31/07/2025

28/07/2025

“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” — Kate DiCamillo

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16/07/2025

A FB group worth following if you are invested in a healthy childhood for your children.

13/07/2025

These are gold 🌟👌

06/07/2025

Still remains one of my favorite people to follow. Her continuous work on brain development and children’s overall holistic development- excellent!!
Dr Melodie de Jager

⭐New Article Alert⭐

We’re excited to share Dr Melodie de Jager’s latest article: “School Readiness Doesn’t Begin in November”

Too often, we think of school readiness as a last-minute push at the end of the year. But true readiness is something we nurture every single day.

At the Mind Moves Institute, we believe PLAY = SMART. When you watch a child playing with their whole body, you see the entire Executive Functioning Process unfold before you!

This new article offers fresh, practical insights that can help parents, teachers, and professionals support children to lay strong foundations for lifelong learning success.

📖 Read it here:
👉 https://www.mindmoves.co.za/2025/07/03/school-readiness-doesnt-begin-in-november/

🌐 Explore our online courses:
👉 https://elearning.mindmoves.co.za/

✨ Let’s shift perspectives together and make every day a step toward real school readiness! 💫

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ecd
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VIA Televisión
BabyGym Institute International
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Knysna Initiative for Learning and Teaching - KILT

AECYC Association for the education and care of young children/ VVOS

11/05/2025

Crying is healthy - thank goodness coz I'm an adult cry baby 😁