Proactive New Year’s Goals

Sandy and I learned much from the HANDS program the boys participated in their first two years. At first, there were skills that the boys scored poorly in - not because they couldn’t do it - but because they were totally unprepared. We found that when we looked ahead and prepared for the exam, each boy’s scores better reflected his true abilities. Parent’s today have the advantage of the internet, where abundant childhood data is readily available. Most researchers group developmental milestones into four major categories; gross motor skills, fine motor skills, language/thinking skills, and social/emotional skills. Neither boy is behind his age group in any skill and is ahead of the pack in a few. In order to master everything on our list, we will need to carefully plan more fun activities to stimulate their learning and mastery of our targeted goals. It’s going to be a busy year.