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Playvolution HQ Podcast

Playvolution HQ Podcast

著者： Jeff Johnson
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 The Playvolution HQ Podcast dives deep into play and early learning, from loose parts and power play to school readiness and curriculum. This weekly, short-format show goes beyond the resources available at playvolutionhq.com, delivering original content like DIY ideas, terminology deep-dives, commentary, news, early learning history, and more.Explorations Early Learning 人間関係 子育て
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  • PHQP_0028 Interoception And School Readiness

    PHQP_0028 Interoception And School Readiness
    2025/07/14
    In episode PHQP_0028 Interoception And School Readiness, Jeff discusses the interoceptive system and its importance in school readiness. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0028 Interoception And School Readiness Episode Notes Interoceptive System The Interoceptive System Simplified The Important Role Of Kinetic Chains In Early Learning PHQP_0027 Coordination 8 Sensory Systems That Drive Playful Learning The Benefits of Playful Aggression The Interoception And School Readiness Transcript Welcome to the Playvolution HQ podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson. Thanks for pushing play on with the show. So, I discovered something the other day. I, I, there we go. I discovered steak cut bacon. Now, look, listeners, if you knew about steak cut bacon and didn't tell me about it, I'm, I'm very angry with you. If, if steak cut bacon is a new thing for you, you'll be just as amazed as I was. I was doing my online shopping and I decided, hey, let's get a little bit crazy and move away from our regular bacon selection and see what other kind of bacon opportunities the world has to offer us. I found steak cut bacon. A pound of this stuff is four slices. So, each slice is like, like half an inch thick. And we, we, we partook, me and, me and the wife, Tasha, partook of the steak cut bacon earlier today. And it's delightful. So, what's that got to do with anything? Well, the world is full of amazing stuff and we don't know it all. And we should be open to, to checking things out and trying new things and, and looking for new things to try, I guess. And if you haven't tried steak cut bacon, you're in for a, it's just, it's just thick meat candy. Anyway, on with the show. Topic one and the only topic again for another episode, interoception and school readiness. So, the interoceptive system is a big part of school readiness, but it doesn't get much attention. Early learning programs spend a lot of time talking about, I don't know, knowing how to write your name and being able to, to name the colors and those kind of things. Those all seem, seem like school readiness things, but this is a very primordial, basic, simple school readiness thing that we often rush through in early learning programs and don't pay much attention to. So the interoceptive system is a, one of the eight sensory systems we've talked to. We've mentioned it on previous episodes. It's really about sensing the body's inner signals. So we've got all of these sensory systems inside of our body that are sending messages to our brains. And this kind of encompasses all of those. So this is internal signals that we're dealing with here and how to interpret the body's interpret, how to interpret the body's inner signals. And so it's not only wearing them up and being aware of them, but interpreting them, figuring out what they mean. And we'll get to that in a little bit more, more detail in a moment. So think for example, around your belly button, we can have a sensory experience in that six or eight inches around your belly button. And it might mean you need to eat because you're hungry. And it might mean you're feeling anxious or stressed. Maybe you need to relax. And it might mean you need to poop. And it might mean you need to pee. And it might mean you're getting sick and you need to throw up. And those sensations are in the same area. And the internal signals are very similar. And we can pretty much learn to discriminate against between them and tell the difference between them. And you get to the point where you know, oh, I've got to go pee or, oh, I need a grilled cheese sandwich. And being able to make those determinations when you're five, six years old and then heading off to kindergarten makes you a delight to have in the classroom and a happier student as well. It's good for the teacher and it's good for the student. The problem is learning to differentiate between those senses to make sense of them,
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    14 分
  • PHQP_0027 Coordination

    PHQP_0027 Coordination
    2025/07/07
    In episode PHQP_0027 Coordination, Jeff discusses coordination. Spoiler Alert--kids need to play more. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0027 Coordination Episode Notes 8 Sensory Systems That Drive Playful Learning DIY | Sensory Play Ramps Hands Grasp Gently Poster The Coordination Transcript Welcome to the Playvolution HQ podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson, thanks for pushing play. On with the show. So, I talk more about coordination. Again, I'm trying to teach myself to play the guitar and I'm an old guy and I thought I was fairly coordinated. But when it comes to putting my fingers in the right place at the right time and making sure the left fingers are in the right place while the right fingers are in the right place while my heel is keeping beat, it's very, very complicated. And it's very, very frustrating. And I'm loving every moment of it. And it got me to thinking about children and coordination because over the last couple years, I've been talking to caregivers, you know, about play and all the other stuff we talk about in this show. And one thing that continues to come up is a lot of long-time caregivers, people who've been in the field for 15, 25, 35 years are reporting frustration with how much less coordinated the children are than they used to be. Somebody in Australia referred to it as kids that got floppy hands nowadays. And I think that's a thing. And, you know, I think it comes from the sedentariness and the screen time and a lot of that. And a lot of the things we cover on the show would address it. But I just wanna spend a little bit of time talking again about coordination. So that's our topic, coordination. So coordination is the ability to execute smooth, controlled movements. And it has a lot to do with proprioception, which we talked about in a previous episode. But coordination also has to do with the visual processes and muscle memory. And there's a lot more going on than just proprioception there. And one of the ways we can, yeah, we're realizing other sensory systems too. I forgot this slide was there. Vision is there, touch is there, the vestibular system is there. All of this stuff is working together. And for all of those things to work together, that's vestibular, the sensory system, that's four of the eight sensory systems at least working together all at once, is they need a lot of practice. And that's what I'm experiencing with my learning guitar is that I've made improvements. But especially because I'm an old guy, I've got this old brain that doesn't make new neural connections nearly as fast as if I was six months old. It's taking a long time. So I can see those slow progressions, but what it takes is repetition over and over and over and over again. And that's what kids need when they're building their coordination and these sensory systems. So our coordination develops from the core out, from our center, and then the big muscles, and then finally out to our fingertips. And so one of the problems, and I've talked about this before, one of the problems, one of the roadblocks to this in a lot of early learning settings is kids aren't engaging in enough big body activity. And if we want them to be able to sit still and keep their hands to themselves and manage a writing utensil, when they get to school, they need to be doing a lot more moving in their early learning settings than they're doing nowadays. They need to be a lot less crisscross applesauce and a lot more rough and tumble play and superhero play and running and climbing and leaping and rolling, spinning, and all that fun stuff. So core outward, if you want to get fancy with it, it's from the proximal to the distal, from the core outward. If you want to impress parents or your coworkers, you can talk about proximal to distal when it comes to coordination development. And this naturally develops, again, via play and exploration.
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    12 分
  • PHQP_0026 Avoiding Pediatric Occupational Therapy

    PHQP_0026 Avoiding Pediatric Occupational Therapy
    2025/06/30
    In PHQP_0026 Avoiding Pediatric Occupational Therapy, Jeff unpacks why more preschool play could help avoid school-age pediatric occupational therapy. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0026 Avoiding Pediatric Occupational Therapy Episode Notes Balanced And Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children The Avoiding Pediatric Occupational Therapy Transcript Welcome to the Playvolution HQ Podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson. Thanks for pushing play on with the show. So, update on something I saw. So, episodes and episodes ago I reported on seeing something called the, I called the water punch game, the water bottle punch game. So, kids were, they had a partially full bottle of water and they were just holding it up and dropping it and punching it. And that went on, I saw a bunch of kids playing it and there were only a couple kids playing it. And then over the last couple months, I guess it's been, there's this one kid I see and this seems to be his go-to hanging out when his friends aren't really able to play, thing to do outside. And he's, he's really evolved as a player of this game or evolved the game, I guess. Now it's, it's multiple, multiple strikes on the bottle before it hits the ground. So, he'll, he'll toss it up the air, up in the air and then he'll bat it up and then it'll be coming down and he'll bat it with an elbow and then maybe get it with a knee and then maybe his heel and then he'll punch it farther away from him. So, it'll be four or five strikes before the bottle hits the gun. It's kind of like, like, like dribbling a soccer ball. And, and it's, it's really great. And this kind of relates back to the proprioception episode we did a little bit ago. This kid has a wonderful awareness of where his body parts are in space in relation to his other body parts, as well of, as well as where other things in the environment are in space. So, it's kind of neat to see that, that game evolve and change over, over time. On with the podcast, topic one, only topic for, for this episode is avoiding pediatric occupational therapy. So, what I'm talking about here is not avoiding it for those who need it. I'm talking about preventing the need for it, I guess is what I'm talking about. And maybe I could have worded the title different, but you know, it is what it is. So, occupation, pediatric occupational therapy is a wonderful thing and very valuable for kids who need it. And it would be nice if we lived in a world where fewer kids needed it. And over the, over the last couple of decades, there's been a huge uptick in the number of kids that are needing, needing this kind of, kind of therapy, this kind of assistance. Human children have never been more sedentary than they are now in 2025, something I say just about every episode. And that has, has made this uptick in pediatric occupational therapy necessary. When kids don't move, they don't build the physical skills that they need, the sensory systems they need don't get wired with their brains, and they have a hard time living in their bodies in the world. And that's basically what pediatric occupational therapy does, is it helps kids who are having a hard time navigating their bodies, navigate their bodies and the world a little bit better. But that's also what, what play does. Play is the evolutionary strategy for giving us all of those skills. And then we end up with kids who lack those skills, and then we have these therapeutic settings to, to help them catch up. But again, it'd be nice if we could avoid, avoid the therapeutic settings altogether. One of the reasons for this uptick is also more screen times, because we are usually sedentary when we are in front of our screens. And so shoving young children in front of screens has really done them a developmental disservice. And look, I'm, I'm pro screen. I, there are a lot of valuable things that can come from screens,
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    12 分

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