Pre-walking travelling skills, such as crawling and rolling, underpin all physical disciplines. Communicating this important message to parents and providing suggestions on how to develop these skills will help young children develop the strength, speed, stamina and co-ordination needed to engage successfully in physical activity.
As well as building the essentials for engaging in physical activity, pre-walking skills also benefit a child's social, emotional and overall physical development. More specifically:
Rolling activities stimulate the vestibular system (situated in the ear) that influences directly children's balance. Rolling also affects development of the proprioceptive sense - essential to children's relationship to their physical selves in space and ultimately the social skills necessary to operate effectively in a group.
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