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Posted By A Son-Rise Message Board Participant on August 26, 1999 at 23:10:18:

In Reply to: Re: Sonrise Room and Diet posted byJohn Koumoutseas on August 26, 1999 at 04:12:17:

Why do you feel jumping is "not normal?" Patrick LOVES to jump. It is providing him with vestibular input that he obviously needs or he would not be jumping. It's great physical exercise, too. We actually play a looking-at-you eye-contact game with Patrick jumping on the big therapy ball, us holding his hands and using our knee to wedge the ball steady into the corner, and he looks at you through the mirror side of our one-way mirror and then you look in the mirror and he looks at you. He smiles and laughs and is having FUN! If what we are posting is making you "frustrated" maybe this program is not for you. You stated in a previous post that you were not doing Son-Rise yet. Son-Rise is not about "normal first, age appropriate second." If love and acceptance is "first" as you corrected yourself, then if your child loves to jump, you love and accept the jumping and fill yourself up with it so that you are enjoying that moment when you are jumping together or he might be jumping and you are encouraging him, or playing an interactive game in the process. "Normal" and "age appropriate" are not words we use in OUR Son-Rise program.

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Comments:: Why do you feel jumping is "not normal?" Patrick LOVES to jump. It is providing him with vestibular input that he obviously needs or he would not be jumping. It's great physical exercise, too. We actually play a looking-at-you eye-contact game with Patrick jumping on the big therapy ball, us holding his hands and using our knee to wedge the ball steady into the corner, and he looks at you through the mirror side of our one-way mirror and then you look in the mirror and he looks at you. He smiles and laughs and is having FUN! If what we are posting is making you "frustrated" maybe this program is not for you. You stated in a previous post that you were not doing Son-Rise yet. Son-Rise is not about "normal first, age appropriate second." If love and acceptance is "first" as you corrected yourself, then if your child loves to jump, you love and accept the jumping and fill yourself up with it so that you are enjoying that moment when you are jumping together or he might be jumping and you are encouraging him, or playing an interactive game in the process. "Normal" and "age appropriate" are not words we use in OUR Son-Rise program.