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Kinesiologist offers tips to help calm ‘Covid kids’ Cobar Mobile Childrens Services hosted kinesiologist Brendan O’Hara on Monday with Brendan conducting a movement workshop for local mums and bubs. “Basically we looked at early childhood
development and we did some work with the crawling all helped children to go on to walkbabies. We looked at crawling patterns and I ing correctly. suggested a couple of things that they could “These three things are really crucial do,” Brendan told The Cobar Weekly. “With the older children we did a lot of He explained how rolling, rocking and calming activities because nowadays we see so much more anxiety,” he said. “All the educators around the traps, working in the whole of the central western district, as well as other educators and teachers are talking about children not being self-regulated. “They are talking about ‘Covid kids’. “These children grew up during Covid and now they are at preschool as three and four year olds and their socializing skills are out of whack; their immune systems are down and their anxiety levels are very high. “They’ve lost the ‘rhythm’ in their lives.” Brendan showed parents some calming activities to help bring back the rhythm. “Today I showed parents things I would use in a clinic. The movements I incorporate into songs and dances are to do with early childhood development,” he said. Cobar Mobile educator Tammy McKay said Brendan had visited a number of times. “It’s always been a success,” Tammy said. Through their ‘Start strong pathways’ program Cobar Mobile is looking to provide more assistance for local families with children in the 0-3 years age group. They plan to conduct further workshops on mental health and meditation and, after receiving requests from new mums and mums-to-be Kinesiologist Brendan O’Hara with Cobar Mobile Childrens Services educators Tammy for assistance with newborns, they are hoping to also hold lactation and sleep routine workMcKay and Bridget Brookman at Monday’s movement workshop. shops and webinars.
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Disqualified driver A 28 year old female driver who was stopped by police in the early hours of Sunday morning and returned a positive result for alcohol, was also found to be a disqualified driver. The Cobar woman was pulled over by police in Morrison Street at 12.35am on Sunday. Enquiries revealed she was disqualified from holding a driver’s licence until 2027. The woman was arrested and taken to Cobar police station for the purpose of a breath analysis. She was later issued with a Court Attendance Notice to appear at Cobar Local Court later this month for driving while disqualified and driving with mid range PCA.
