How to Improve Your Child’s Spatial Awareness with Development Activities

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Spatial Awareness is the distance between you and the objects in your environment. So for me, it was the distance between me and the soccer ball or me and my teammate. As babies crawl and walk, they begin to learn more about their environment and the space they explore.

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