From Toddlers to Great-Grandparents When people think of physical therapy, they often picture someone working hard to recover after an injury or surgery. While that’s an important part of what physical therapists do, it’s only one piece of the puzzle. Physical therapy is also about being proactive, using it as a lifelong tool to improve…
Volunteering is a selfless act of offering time, skills, or resources to help others without the expectation of monetary reward. To quote Mahatma Gandhi, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the services of others.” While the primary purpose of volunteering is to support individuals, communities, or causes in need, it…
As more and more of us become the generation that raise our children and help to take care of our aging parents we may find ourselves choosing to bring those parents into our homes to stay with us. What better way to make Grandma or Grandpa feel welcome into our home to live than a…
All mammals play; it is evolutionary. It is the way we practice the skills that we need to survive and succeed in life. It is how our brain is wired to learn, through real-life experiences and exploration. The saying “play is children’s work” is well known for its truthfulness. Yet, for several years, play has…
I still remember sitting at the kitchen table with my grandma, my toddler on one side of me, my grandmother on the other, each of us quietly brushing water over pages of a magic painting book. We didn’t say much, but we didn’t need to. There was a quiet rhythm to the moment, a shared…
What’s for lunch? In terms of those being utterly consumed by the daily grind. The answer is working moms. As a matter of fact, that goes for breakfast and dinner too. Today’s working moms have been referred to as the “Sandwich Generation” since the term was coined in 1981 by Dorothy Miller as a way…