Slower Is How You Learn It

A gentle lullaby about slowing a movement down so the brain can build the plan for it, which is Aderet's own closing advice in this episode.

Aderet Therapy Weekly is a weekly paediatric physiotherapy podcast for parents of babies and young children, made by Aderet Therapy in Campbelltown, in the Macarthur region of NSW. Each episode mixes short talk segments with original songs written for the week's topic. This is the song from episode 5, “Why does more practice not fix a wobbly child?”.

This has been created with the help of AI.

Links

• Aderet Therapy
• Listen to the full episode (Aderet Therapy Weekly, episode 5)

Lyrics

Verse

No need to hurry, love, and no need to race

Take the whole of it down to a walking pace

Every slow try is a line getting drawn

A path through you that wasn't there at dawn

Chorus

Slower is how you learn it, slower is the way

Not fewer tries, love, just a gentler day

Nobody's timing it, nobody's turned it

Into a race, love, slower is how you learn it

Verse

One step at a time and the next one waits

Buttons and laces and rhythm and plates

Some days it lands and some days it strays

That is not you failing, that is just the way

Chorus

Slower is how you learn it, slower is the way

Not fewer tries, love, just a gentler day

Nobody's timing it, nobody's turned it

Into a race, love, slower is how you learn it

Outro

Slower is how you learn it

And you'll get there

Disclaimer

This song and this video are general information. Every child is unique, and nothing here is medical advice or a substitute for a conversation with your GP, your child and family health nurse, or your physiotherapist. The episode this song comes from says what can and cannot be supported by evidence; the song does not make clinical claims.

About Aderet Therapy

Paediatric physiotherapy for newborns to 18 years - gross motor development, assistive technology, communication physiotherapy, aquatic physiotherapy, key worker early intervention, school holiday programs, and the free Little Movers League community sessions. NDIS, Medicare and private.

Suite 10, 261 Queen Street, Campbelltown NSW. Wheelchair accessible, free parking.

Phone 02 4949 7276 · info@aderettherapy.com.au · aderettherapy.com.au

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