The fascinating children's motor development. What for a long time was interpreted as the brain's use of a series of levers and forces to achieve an objective, is currently considered as a body and mind duality that acts in a coordinated way to achieve concrete goals.
One of the factors that favor motor development is the motivation for movement and for the activities that generate vestibular stimulation, that is, for those games in which displacements and accelerations occur in space. Let's explain why children like to swing
Vestibular stimulation could be defined as the set of bodily experiences in which the child lives a change of position in space. Depending on its intensity generates very different emotions.
The smooth and slow rocking that the newborn or the baby receives when in his mother's arms generates stability, tranquility and security. It is one of the most frequent measures to facilitate sleep or to assist you in case you are crying.
On the other hand, when we want to wake a child we also resort to vestibular stimulation by lifting him from the cradle or incorporating him (when he is falling asleep during the meal, for example).
These uses of the change of posture in space ends up using the child himself on the swings to experience intense sensations. It is a good resource for those kids with a tendency to sedentary who can find a greater motivation towards the movement using this type of elements.
Inflatables, trampolines, fair machines ... are other examples of vestibular stimulation elements that are usually very well accepted by children. The only aspect that must be taken into account (apart from the safety of the different elements) is that, as we have already said, they increase the level of mental alertness when they are abrupt and rapid, so they can put children "as a motorcycle ", but it is also one of the factors that make Children like to swing.
