Family Massage

So in my emergency foster care group meeting we had a speaker teaching and talking about the power of touch. She taught about how to do infant and child massage. I am not sure how I feel about all this touching people business, but she did have a little research about the brain and learning through touch. She shared this one study about Sweden, I think. Apparently the whole country is doing massage in the schools from k-12 grade. And one benefit was that children's self drawings started out just heads and bodies, but after about a month of hand and foot massage, their drawings sprouted limbs and digits. Interesting. What do y'all think?