Golf

Golfing in pajamas! That's the new style LOL! Hayley was trying out the new pair of gloves which we bought her over the weekend.

She has been attending golf lessons at Kindergolf Jelita for over a year now. My husband, KC, is a golfer while I am hopeless at golf! I have no ball sense whatsoever though I did take lessons before I was pregnant with Hayley and I am not sure when I will go for a refresher's course. I don't mind the sun but I just simply CANNOT AIM and HIT! Anyway, that's my problem!

Back to Hayley... she is the sort of child who is not able to focus on anything regimental nor routined but surprisingly, she is pretty okay at golf meaning that she is able to hit the ball correctly and requires minimal reminders on posture and tempo. That is indeed a relief to us all in constrast to the fact that she has relatively short attention span when it comes to doing her basic penmanship (including Chinese Characters) and simple arithmetic.

Last December, she has progressed to playing on the Par 3 Course and thoroughly enjoys the outdoor lessons. We also realised that she became more interested in the game after we attended the HSBC Women's Champions a few months back.

Oh by the way, Hannah hates golf! She told me that she much prefers swimming as she feels that golf requires too much walking under the sun. Now, swimming is one sport that Hayley is not able to master despite having taken lessons for more than a year now. Although she has no fear of water and clowns around in the pool more often than not, she does not seem to be able to synchronise her strokes. Guess she will need more time.......

Osteopathy

Most of my friends are aware of Hayley, my younger daughter's learning difficulties. She is 5 going on 6 and has been assessed by an educational psychologist that she displays strong signs of dyslexia.

At the beginning of this year, she started her intervention classes at Orton Gillingham as well as speech and language therapy at Speech Inc.

My child was also asked to undergo Occupational Therapy and will start her session at Kidz Paediatrics tomorrow. Recently, I had been advised by a friend to visit an osteopath to see if the treatment will help Hayley focus better and to cope with her dyslexia.

The following links provide some information on osteopathy and craniosacral work:-

http://www.hands-on-london.com/osteopathy.html
http://www.hands-on-london.com/osteopathy_sciatica.html

http://www.milneinstitute.com/forms/A%20CLIENT%20intro.pdf

We have gone for 2 sessions and its quite interesting as to how the treatment is being administered. The patient is asked to rest on a massage table and the therapist monitors the craniosacral rhythm with his hands while supporting the back of the patient's head. He conducts other gentle assessments and corrects the sources of pain and dysfunction using gentle manipulative techniques, for example at points around the patient's ears and temples.

Hayley has an extremely low threshold for pain but she has yet to complain about any discomfort during the therapy, which is good news to me!