Jabadao Library

Wellbeing is a complex concept, but we all intuitively value and understand it and want it for our children. We know it makes a huge...

In 1998, JABADAO began an independent research project within the early years sector, recruiting early years practitioners to join us in...

If you spend any time at all reading about physical development, it won’t be long before you bump into the phrase ‘cross-lateral’...

Lots of early years practitioners have been telling us that they are concerned about physical development following lockdown. Three...

I absolutely love teaching on Zoom. And attending other people’s courses on Zoom for that matter. I love the way it makes it easy for...

An interview with Penny Greenland Q - How would you describe JABADAO in a sentence? We’re a national charity re-thinking physical...

It sometimes feels as if there is a battleground between adults and small children around the body and movement. Children want and need...

September 2020 Interesting listening on the radio this evening - talk about children going back to school, and especially what they’ve...

Did you see an article on the news recently about fitting a third thumb to the human body? It was one of those more jolly pieces at the...

Back in the 1990s, in a rapidly growing collaboration with the early years sector, the JABADAO team of movement specialists was trying to...

Babies and children often like to pull their socks and shoes off and go barefoot. We adults,  for all kinds of reasons,  (like cold,...

Tens of thousands of years ago, before our ancestors had written language,  they danced.  Why on earth did they do this?   In a life very...

It’s lockdown and the kids are at home. All day, everyday. A parcel arrives. It is the new rug for the sitting room. In the evening, the...

All of us in the early years work with Touch, most often focusing on the hands. Probably with great fine motor skills in mind, but also...

If you’ve taken a Developmental Movement Play course with us, you’ll know that we talk about reflexes as a crucial bit of our physical...

Most of us if asked to name the senses will name five. Sight, sound, taste, smell and touch. But with different specialist viewpoints the...

Playing on the monkey bars is such good body work. Around 30 million years ago something was happening to shoulders and chests. Up to...

The Feeling of Me is one of four Developmental Movement Play courses we offer. It's the one that looks at the detail of sensory...