I couldn't possibly tell you all the reasons why movement is so important for young children in just a few minutes I mean I've written a whole textbook on it so I'll have to give you the Reader's Digest version if we're looking at it just some as a physical standpoint I mean they there's the physical development and the motor skill development which doesn't happen automatically you know they they need help learning these skills just like they need help learning reading and writing skills and any other skills that we teach in early childhood and it's it's more important than ever because we have and this phrase has been used so often lately that it's almost lost all of its meaning we have a childhood obesity crisis but if I tell you that children are 40% of children 5 to 8 show at least one heart disease risk factor including obesity and hypertension I mean we shouldn't be saying the words hypertension and five year old in the same sentence the first signs of arterioles arteriosclerosis are appearing at age five you know children six to ten a dying of sudden cardiac arrest these are these are things that never happen before and it may be the first generation of children that does not live you know their parents it's it's shocking and much of it comes from their sedentary lifestyles so we have to make sure that they have movement that they have physical activity is as part of their lives so that's just one reason but it really it impacts the whole child we tend to think of it in terms of physical development but it also impacts social-emotional development we know they have to play together you know to play cooperative games to learn to take turns and to share and all of that and then the the aspect of child development that most people don't think about is the cognitive development young children need to physically experience concepts in order to learn them so I know that one of the questions you're going to ask is how it connects to academics it all ties together you know children need to get high and low to understand those quantitative concepts in mathematics they have to fully experience their personal space to really comprehend it they need to experience spatial awareness and directionality for reading and writing you know top to bottom and left to right those are things that we don't think about with emergent literacy but you know word comprehension if they act out the words tiny it enormous they never forget them if you know if they work on positional concepts that's geometry and emergent literacy I mean they really they need to physically experience concepts in order to grasp them and we have them sitting more and more and more and it's absolutely contrary to what the research tells us