What Russian Commies Knew About Exercising a Baby
Dear Friend,
Even though I share the same birthday with
Karl Marx - I'm no fan of communism. In fact,
I despite it.
At the same time, whether we're talking about
Russia or China, there's still a wealth of great
information that the rest of us can learn from.
My friend Lar Short just sent me an example
of something that proves my point. Read on and
see once again that "life is movement."
Matt,
Coinciding with today's email, having a baby do
assisted range of motion asap, is excellent for their
brain development and so is assisted swimming in the
bath tub.
The Russians back in the late 60's, when they were still
commie dogs ;), used range of motion and cross-crawl
exercises with premature births when they had no other
methods around, no high tech premie stuff like we have
here in the USA today.
I saw the films and boy did those babies look tiny! The nurse
looked like a giant about to pull them apart. The nurses would
also sing to the babies. The babies made cooing noises and smiled.
The result of this "primitive grappling of the infants" as a medical
friend of mine quipped, was that they increased the survival rate
8x, better than anything we were doing with our machines here in
the free world.
I remember how shocked my medical collegues were and how most
of them chose disbelief instead of running the experiment in conjunction
with what they were already doing. Oh by the way the babies smiles were
discounted as "gas".
Other medical people present and the parents present "quietly, and
undercover" started implementing the cross-crawls, range-of-motion,
massage, and water play with their infants. The increased well being,
health, and all around happiness of the infants plus their doing better
or at the high end of the developmental profile was credited by some to
be genetics. The infants obviously had smarter and healthier parents.
I suggested that the infants did have smarter and healthier parents -
ones that could learn and put something useful into practice even if it
came from some commie source.
Needless to say that was not diplomatic and I also knew they weren't going
to do anything with evidence that went in the face of what they already
knew. A few years later, I included these methods along with the infant
education program we were developing in Venezuela.
Among the poorest people, including some primitive natives, we got the
same increase in health, happiness, and intelligence.
EXERCISE THOSE BABIES!!!!
Last of all: This is a THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR
BEING IN MY LIFE. And specifically, in my case, for getting me back to the
exercises that I knew worked when I was a kid. It is great getting to become
a kid again (at 55).
with Gratitude,
Lar Short
M.F.: Lar, thanks so much for contributing this. I love it and am
now committed to exercising my baby daughter "right away." She
may end up being a challenge for Frank, hehe.
That's all for now.
Best,
P.S.: Don't forget to drop by my homepage to see the updates.
Very cool. Go here and take a gander.
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