Your goal today is to choose FIVE actions you can do THIS WEEK to improve your brain health. The first one is GIANT, so if you choose one of those, YOU WIN!
🧠 Giant Chunking
- Limit passive learning (like screen time)
- Improve diet: "You are what you eat"
- Regular exercise and good sleep
- Learn a foreign language
Physical Baby Steps - These are physical movements to add to your daily routine. Which one will you do?
Crossover Actions - Move your right arm to the left, and your left arm to the right again and again!
- Crawl, climb, hopscotch
- Right hand to left knee
- Macarena dance
- Pretend to climb a ladder
Physical Contact - Touching your children improves their (and your) synapse delivery!
- Hugs, hand on shoulder
- Shoulder-to-shoulder, hip-to-hip
- High fives, handshakes, clapping games
Stretch & Massage - blood flow is HUGE with your brain health. Use that spine as the pathway from your brain stem all the way down to your toes!
- Pull your ear away from your shoulder
- Twist: left elbow outside right knee
- Clasp hands behind back and pull
- Shoulder rubs in a circle
Gather & Release - causing stress to the muscles, and then releasing reminds you of how you can release EVERYthing!
- Pull in knees, then stretch out
- Clench & release fists
- Curl toes & flare them
- Flex and point toes
🏠 Atmosphere & Play
Notice & Name - this is a visual therapy method and improves gross motor skills
- Name items around you in another language
- Use colors, numbers, objects
Play with Cards - Physical movement and eye tracking with control over your environment adds a TON of growth in your brain.
- Go Fish, Memory, Flash Cards
- I Spy, Pictionary, Speed rounds, Charades
Improve Environment - Ask your children if they need changes!
- Check clutter, air quality, brightness, smells, comfort, and noise
- Get sunlight (Vitamin D)
⏱️ Five Second Habits
- Touch opposite toe with pointer finger (windmill)
- Quick math games (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
- Say greetings or manners in a second language
- Mimic songs, Simon Says, rhythms, or tap a beat
- Take just 5 seconds to make a healthy choice
✅ Choose Your Baby Steps
- Giant Chunking (Language, Diet, Screens, Exercise)
- Daily Physical Actions (Crossovers, Stretching, Massage, Touching)
- “School” Activities (Games, Atmosphere, Five Second Habits)
Which five did you write down? Comment below!