Parents hope to bring up happy, well-adjusted children with the skills and traits to become successful adults. Society depends on it.

Increasingly, this is not the case. Alarming trends in developmental and social-emotional delays, disruptive behaviors and mental illness, indicate a need to reevaluate factors contributing to such conditions. We must reimagine ways to optimize whole-child health as early as possible.

The PQ Theory asserts that early physical movement patterns, experienced in progression and paired with caregiver attunement and proper nutrition, can alter a child’s brain development in ways that increase foundational traits for life success; namely, self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-agency. Moreover, these traits help children mitigate the effects of exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs); thereby making early movement an effective prevention and treatment modality for addressing exposure to childhood trauma.

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