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In loving memory of our wise parents,
Betty and Marvin Newman
and
Doris and Herman Stock

Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

LAO Tzu

We want to focus on activity ... and we want everybody to think about moving their bodies.

MiCHELLE OBAMA, 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll

You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out ... Thats what its all about.

THE HOKEY POKEY

Many Thanks

We are eternally grateful to many people who helped us grow this book, including:

Larry Paul, who embraces, supports, and delights in Joye and her passion for promoting happy, healthy childhoods.

Mark Zweig, whose mindfulness, wisdom, and loving support of Carol faileth never.

Joyes children, Ami, Miri, and Benjy, for listening to her talk and talk about how much fun she and Carol have had collaborating on this book.

Carols sons, Jeremy and David, and daughters-in-law, Jenny and Melissa, for listening to her talk and talk about how much fun she and Joye have had collaborating on this book.

Carols grandchildren, Eden, Aaron, Asher, Noah, and Isaac, for cheerfully trying the activities and offering their own ingenious variations.

Joyes pets, Hailey Sue and Jesse James, for being the most In-Sync dog and cat in the world.

Amiel Francke, OD, Joyes mentor extraordinaire, who guides and nurtures her professionally and personally and shares his brilliance about vision and its importance in living an In-Sync life.

The incredibly dedicated and creative staff at Kids Moving Company, who over the years have helped get so many children In Sync.

Wise and wonderful Marguerite Kelly, for generously sharing her knowledge with parents everywhere and for teaching us the art and science of how to get this book into your hands.

The staff at Apple Store Bethesda Row, especially Thom, Kelly-Ann, Pearl, Hugh, Danny, Ned, Paul, Steve, Marcy, and Doug.

Jane Healy, for writing the splendid foreword to this book and for her lifes work, which is to get children actively participating in the world around them.

Our illustrator, Durell Godfrey, for her delightful illustrations.

Our Perigee editor, Marian Lizzi, and publisher, John Duff, for their thoughtful guidance and support.

Ethel in Kansas, her In-Sync son, Frankie, and all the other children who accompany us on our journey.

Our beloved parents, guarding us from above, who taught us what we know and how to be.

Most of all, each other, forever.

Joye and Carol
Bethesda, Maryland
Spring 2010

Foreword

WHEN KIDS RUN, catch balls, roll down a hill, splash joyously in puddles without falling down, and relate to others with an easy grace appropriate to their age, they are strengthening their bodies and brains. These are simple and powerful words from Carol Kranowitz and Joye Newman to describe the childs natural learning curve. Physical activity: Its what kids do, the basic connection that ignites a lifetime of intelligence. Seems obvious, doesnt it? Well, it isfor children who are In Sync.

As any educator can tell you, children who are not In Sync have always been with us, puzzling and worrying their teachers, psychologists, andespeciallytheir parents. Currently, pediatricians, teachers, and parents are troubled by a rapid increase in children who have somehow missed out on the body-brain connection and are seriously delayed in basic physical and perceptual skill development.

Professionals attribute this worrisome trend to the altered landscape of twenty-first century childhoodan excess of electronic play-time and screen-time, with a commensurate lack of physical and creative activity. These are natural steps toward integrating body and brain on the way to a fully functioning intellect. Mature thinking and learning are founded on neural pathways that develop as a child masters physical coordination, skilled movement, balance, and many other skills inherent in sensory and perceptual motor development.

Yet our hyper-stressed pursuit of progress has convinced many parents and teachers that childs play is an outdated waste of time. Why should a digital generation spend valuable learning time on rough-and-tumble, gooey, muddy, spontaneous physical fun? they wonder. Theres work to do, academic skills to master, the electronic universe to conquer!

Oh, how wrong they are! It is your childs active manipulation of, and response to, the three-dimensional world around her that sets a course for her future intelligence.

Kranowitz and Newman urge us to give the electronic entertainments a rest and resist trying to accelerate learning. Fortunately, they also tell us how to reverse these damaging trends while identifying and targeting any childs specific areas of need. They give us a series of flexible activities that can be adapted to time and place, as well as the childs ability and attention span.

I challenge you to choose a relaxed setting and sample these activities with a child without having fun! Start with the basic ones, and dont be fooled; these seemingly lighthearted games and the authors easy style belie their profound importance. While you cant yet peer inside a childs brain to observe what is happening when she practices games such as Arm Circles or Paper Plate Play, you can be sure that something important is going on in there.

Hopefully, you will also be willing to act as guinea pig, try the activities yourself, and even look a little foolish in the process. If so, you will provide a model of not only how to meet a new challenge but also how to relax, laugh, and generate your own fun together rather than having it brought to you by some electronic device.

Thank you, Joye and Carol, for giving us this helpful means of tuning in to body and brain as we work on becoming an In Sync human family.

JANE M. HEALY, PH.D., author of Your Childs Growing Mind and Different Learners

Introduction

JOYE AND CAROL TAKE A WALK

During a glorious spring walk beside the Potomac River near Washington, DC, we spot a toddler gleefully pushing his stroller along the gravelly path. We watch his mother encourage this heavy-work activity, even though their progress is slow and zigzaggy. You are so strong! she says. He looks up at her, giggling, and the stroller lurches off-course toward the bushes. His mother quickly steps in front. Whoa! she says. The child stops the stroller in time and, with some effort, corrects his pilot error.

We understand the immense value of this interaction among Mom, child, and stroller. This mother is growing an In-Sync child, and we are delighted!

Around the bend, we see a six-year-old stomping through a puddle and a twelve-year-old balancing on a fallen tree trunk. We know that these active children are strengthening their bodies and brainsmuch more than many of their peers who are indoors staring at a video screen or being drilled with flash cards.

Such seemingly unremarkable experiences as stomping and balancing can, in fact, be the foundation for optimal physical, academic, social, and emotional growth.

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