I love movement and I love celebrating, thus I always strive to create movement-rich celebrations. For years, I’ve done a movement advent calendar at the end of the year as a thank you to my…
13 Ways to Make Your Walk More Nutritious
Your body needs many dietary vitamins and minerals to maintain its physiological homeostasis, and it requires a variety of mechanical nutrients (loads that create cellular deformations that facilitate cellular processes) as well. Walking is a…
30 Things You Can Do at the Playground
Friends, DON’T JUST SIT THERE. Here are 30 ways you can move at the playground. Thirty things you can do to nutrify (I really shouldn’t be allowed to write books) your next playground experience. I…
Hypermobility (and 12 Steps to Stronger, More Stable Shoulders)
This post was edited February 2020 to better organize and update its resources. Last week I posted a couple of videos on how to hang better when your elbows or shoulders are more lax than…
Back-to-School Minimal Shoes: A Sizing and Shopping Guide
This post was updated 2019 and again in 2021. – KB The winding up of summer vacation means a lot of things, and for many of us it means back to school shoe shopping. Although…
What I’ve been doing for the last 10 weeks
I haven’t written a post in weeks and weeks. Here’s why: The paperback version of Don’t Just Sit There went to the printer two weeks ago, which means lots of proofing, and edits, and back-and-forth…
Come to Outdoor School for 5 Minutes
This post, originally published July 31, 2015 has been slightly edited February 2019 (through tears, just looking at my now older kids back when they were so little) to include updated links and some game…
Keeping your body and life FIT.
If you’re interested in reading more on ideas presented in the article below, I suggest reading Movement Matters. If you’d like movement instruction via video, start with Daily Movement Multivitamin. Modern life seems to come…
Skinny Jean and Compressive Garment Injury
The news of a “skinny jean injury” hit the press this morning. This is just one type of issue that can arise from garments that compress areas of your body. You move through your environment, but…
Dear Barbie,
Dear Barbie, I was very excited to hear that, after 56 years, you are getting ankle joints and will finally be able to wear flats. However, it occurred to me that in your excitement at…
Cleaning Up Our Sleep
This article was updated in 2019 to reflect our constantly evolving furniture-free, dynamic living space. For context, you might want to start with the article Why I Went Furniture-Free and How to Transition Out of…
Don’t Just Sit There (With Kids)
I rarely just sit there, even when I’m sitting there. This works for me because I can be with my kids while still varying my mechanical environment. In a single hour I got both an…