Enhance your baby’s visual skills with this simple exercise!
🌟 Watch our quick video to boost visual tracking and attention span for 6-8 month olds.
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Fledglings' Flight Child Development App
Fledglings' Flight gives parents of children 0-3 years old tools to optimize their childs development
Here is a snippet from the Fledglings Flight Podcast with Annamarie Von Firley and special guest speaker, Vanessa Fox! The topic of this episode is about battling postpartum burnout. Vanessa Fox is a neurodivergent pediatric OT who knows what she's talking about when it come to identifying the warning signs of parental burnout.
here is the link to the podcast:
https://youtu.be/PalF52Z41jc
🧩✨ Let’s play a fun game called Odd Object Out! Can you find the object that doesn’t belong in each group?
Playing this game with your toddlers is a fantastic way to sharpen their observation, cognitive development, and problem-solving skills! 👀🔍
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06/01/2026
7 months in—and your baby is on the move (and making noise)!
From rolling over and scooting to babbling, grabbing, and reacting to new voices, your little one is growing fast. These small changes point to big leaps in development.
We’ve broken down 35+ key milestones across six essential areas—motor skills, social-emotional growth, communication, and more—so you know what to look for, celebrate, and support.
✨ Development doesn’t follow a strict timeline—but this guide helps you track what’s typical and what’s next.
📖 Explore the full milestone checklist:
https://ow.ly/mS4v50Wsi9b
📣 "THE WORDS YOUR CHILD HEARS TODAY BECOME THE WORDS THEY USE TOMORROW." 💬
In this powerful clip from Annamarie von Firley's IG Live with Lois Kam Heymann, M.A. CCC-SLP (Listen Love Learn , they dove into one of the questions parents ask me ALL the time:
👉 "How do I actually build my child's vocabulary?" 👈
And Lois? She delivered. 🙌
With 30+ years as a Speech and Language Pathologist and as the leading authority on Auditory Processing Disorder, Lois shared the simple, science-backed strategies that turn everyday moments into vocabulary-building gold. ✨
In this highlight, you'll learn:
🗣️ Why HOW you talk to your child matters as much as what you say
🛒 How to turn grocery runs, car rides & bath time into mini language lessons
👂 The listening-vocabulary connection most parents never hear about
💡 One small shift that makes a BIG difference
But trust me, this clip is just the tip of the iceberg. 🧊
🎧 The FULL conversation is streaming NOW on:
▶️ YouTube
🎵 Spotify
🍎 Apple Podcasts
We cover auditory processing, early warning signs, classroom advocacy, and so much more, the kind of information that changes how you parent forever. 💛
💬 Comment your child's favorite word below! 👇
🔁 Share this with a parent who's raising a little talker (or a future one!)
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Because every word counts. Literally. 📚✨
🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT! 🎙️
The most important thing you've never heard of is finally getting its moment in the spotlight — and it might just change how you see your child (and yourself 👀).
This week on A Parent's Guide to Child Development, we're diving deep into PRIMITIVE REFLEXES with the incredible Emily Roper — Neuro-Developmental Delay Therapist, certified Midwife's Assistant, founder of , and host of The Early Roots Podcast. With 600+ births attended and over a decade in the trenches with kids facing ADHD, autism, anxiety, dyslexia, and sensory challenges, Emily is the expert you didn't know you needed. 💡
Here's the wild part: your baby is born with a set of pre-wired reflexes that are SUPPOSED to disappear in the first year of life. When they don't? They can quietly show up YEARS later as:
😰 Anxiety & mood swings
✏️ Poor handwriting & pencil grip
🍽️ Picky eating & feeding struggles
🪑 Trouble sitting still in school
👕 Hating clothing tags & certain textures
🛒 Sensory meltdowns at the grocery store
📚 Difficulty reading or reversing letters
😴 Fatigue, allergies & chronic stress
And almost NOBODY connects the dots back to infancy. Until now. 🎯
In this episode, we cover:
🧠 What primitive reflexes actually are
🍼 Feeding reflexes (Rooting, Sucking, Babkin)
🦶 Mobility reflexes (Stepping, Plantar)
✋ The Palmar Grasp
🤸 Coordination reflexes (ATNR, STNR, Spinal Galant, TLR)
😱 Self-preservation reflexes (Moro, Fear Paralysis)
⏰ When they SHOULD integrate
🚨 What happens when they don't
💪 What you can do — at ANY age
🎧 STREAM NOW on:
▶️ YouTube
🟢 Spotify
🍎 Apple Podcasts
Link in bio! ⬆️ Tag a parent, teacher, or therapist who needs to hear this. 💛
Czech out this compact and inventive way to introduce your little learn to the ABCs. A is for Alligator, B is for Bear. What animal begins with the letter C? This toy carries the fundamentals of basic child development--fine motor skills, cognitive, and interactive play. But most importantly, it awakens curiosity and imagination. It invites kids to learn by playing, discovering, and having fun!
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🎥 ICYMI: The IG Live everyone is talking about is now available to watch! 🎥
If you missed us LIVE with , don't worry — the full conversation is up and ready for you to dive into whenever you have a minute (or want something more interesting than another load of laundry 🧺).
We sat down with the brilliant Emily Roper of Early Roots — Neuro-Developmental Delay Therapist, certified Midwife's Assistant, and host of The Early Roots Podcast — to unpack PRIMITIVE REFLEXES… aka the most important thing you've probably never heard of. 🤯
Spoiler alert: those "cute" newborn reflexes? They have a job to do. And when they don't finish that job, they can quietly shape EVERYTHING — from how your child holds a pencil ✏️ to how they handle a loud noise at the grocery store 🛒 to why they can't seem to sit still at the dinner table 🍽️
In this conversation, we cover:
🧠 What primitive reflexes actually are
🍼 The feeding reflexes (Rooting, Sucking, Babkin)
🦶 The mobility reflexes (Stepping, Plantar)
✋ The Palmar Grasp & why it matters for handwriting
🤸 The coordination crew (ATNR, STNR, Spinal Galant, TLR)
😰 The self-preservation reflexes tied to anxiety & sensory overwhelm
⏰ When they SHOULD integrate
🚨 What it looks like when they don't
💪 What you can do — at ANY age
This one is a game-changer for parents, grandparents, teachers, therapists — basically anyone who loves a kid. 💛
🎧 Then catch the full podcast episode on A Parent's Guide to Child Development on Youtube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts— link in bio!
Tag a parent who needs to hear this. ⬇️
🎥 ICYMI: The IG Live everyone is talking about is now available to watch! 🎥
If you missed us LIVE with , don’t worry — the full conversation is up and ready for you to dive into whenever you have a minute (or want something more interesting than another load of laundry 🧺).
We sat down with the brilliant Emily Roper of — Neuro-Developmental Delay Therapist, certified Midwife’s Assistant, and host of The Early Roots Podcast — to unpack PRIMITIVE REFLEXES… aka the most important thing you’ve probably never heard of. 🤯
Spoiler alert: those “cute” newborn reflexes? They have a job to do. And when they don’t finish that job, they can quietly shape EVERYTHING — from how your child holds a pencil ✏️ to how they handle a loud noise at the grocery store 🛒 to why they can’t seem to sit still at the dinner table 🍽️
In this conversation, we cover: 🧠 What primitive reflexes actually are 🍼 The feeding reflexes (Rooting, Sucking, Babkin) 🦶 The mobility reflexes (Stepping, Plantar) ✋ The Palmar Grasp & why it matters for handwriting 🤸 The coordination crew (ATNR, STNR, Spinal Galant, TLR) 😰 The self-preservation reflexes tied to anxiety & sensory overwhelm ⏰ When they SHOULD integrate 🚨 What it looks like when they don’t 💪 What you can do — at ANY age
This one is a game-changer for parents, grandparents, teachers, therapists — basically anyone who loves a kid. 💛
🔗 🎧 Then catch the full podcast episode on A Parent’s Guide to Child Development on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts — Friday, May 29, 2026 at 6pm
Tag a parent who needs to hear this. ⬇️
You can build your child's fine motor skills with this clever looping toy from Germany! They will also build visual tracking skills, pincer grasp, problem solving skills as they guide the colored beads along the metal loop.
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