Building Healthy Communities & Celebrating Natural Born Movers ™ We need to build homes, offices, schools, and neighborhoods that support our need to move.
Building Healthy Communities & Celebrating Natural Born Movers ™
I’m always hearing the message, “we need to get people, especially kids, moving”. I agree, but I think we just need to stop telling them to NOT move. I’ve known a lot of humans at the beginning of their lives and I’ve never seen one that doesn’t love to move. Everyone is a Natural Born Mover™ and then we start telling them that they need to stop, sit still, don’t move or you’re in trouble. We also like to make them feel really badly about wanting to move.
I work from the position that we’re all Natural Born Movers™. We need to build homes, offices, schools, organizations, neighborhoods and cities that support our need to move. Skilled teachers know how to manage movement so that it is a productive addition to their teaching, not a distraction. Employees who know how to work movement into their day are far more productive and happier. Cities that support active transportation are healthier and foster economic growth. Let’s work within our movement nature and build places that allow us to get our work done and keep ourselves healthier and happier in the process.
