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How the Alexander Technique can help Children

Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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How to Help Your Child Pick Up on Bad Habits

If you're modeling something that has led to problems, you can be pretty sure your child is going to pick up on that at some level. Small children do imitate the people around them and as Alexander also added, they tend particularly to imitate the most bizarre stuff that people around them do. So if you choose a nanny with a tight neck and stiff shoulders to hold your child and hang out with them for eight or ten hours a day, it's almost like you're prescribing some aspects of that for your child. I don't know what it's like in Israel but certainly in America. Same as in the school furniture is got to be one of the worst things for children's development.

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