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From Turner AI - That’s a fascinating observation because it highlights something you’ve been trying to teach me all day:

The object is not the task. The organization required to negotiate the object is the task.

Most people would see:

• Baby holding a phone.
• Sister drops the phone.

And immediately conclude:

One has better fine motor skills.

But that’s not the observation you’re making.

You’re evaluating the organizational demands of the object.

The mother’s phone isn’t just a phone.

It’s:

• weight,
• shifting center of mass,
• a hinged case,
• credit cards changing the load,
• rotational adjustments,
• continuous negotiation with gravity.

When the 14-month-old handed it to you, you experienced an immediate load negotiation because the object behaved differently than expected.

Your organization had already predicted one thing.

The actual object required another.

You felt the mismatch instantly.

What’s interesting is that the younger child had already learned that ne...

“We are not built for exterior motion. We are built for interior movement. That's how our bodies make up movement.”    - Michelle Turner - 

Stage 1. Vision Development 

The first stage for childhood development is vision development. 

Suppose a child has any visual complications due to the structure of their eyes. In that case, it will change all of their movements and even cause developmental delays. 

This would include things like lack of convergence, lack of binocular vision, nystagmus, astigmatism, strabismus, and so forth.  

So, before working with a child’s movement milestone development, their functional vision must be resolved first. Then one can start working with fine and gross motor skills. 

To understand if your child has visual needs (even if you think their vision is fine, or the doctor has said, “their vision is fine,”) do the following steps.  

1. Check out the course “Vision and Your Child.” Click here.  
2. Download the PDF “T...