Stuff to help dd and her constant restlessness

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

Aside from ritanol (joke!)

She is nearly 8 and is just on the move all the time. She watches tv on the floor comforting herself into all sorts of shapes. She doesn't just walk anywhere. It's skips, jumps, heel walking etc.

At the table the legs are twisting round the chairs legs, or up under her and back down again repeatedly.

We've spent forever on tackling this so that she knows when she needs to sit as still as she can muster, and since learning to walk has been active. Relentlessly so.

We are out an about a lot, she swims a fair bit each week, cycles, can walk for miles etc so she has a good chance to "get her wiggles out".

I need to start accepting that her body just needs to move a lot. What can I do to help? Are there seats/toys/activities I can introduce to help?

We went into school the other day for a meeting with the assistant principal - this is high school so ages 14-18. She had three normal chairs, a wobble chair, and a gym ball. She also had a basket on the table, full of objects that you could play with while talking eg fidget spinners, rubix cubes, rubber bands, various other things.

DS immediately took the gym ball to sit on, and fidgeted with one of the objects, and it made it much easier for him to talk through what turned out to be a difficult subject.

I had to really struggle not to grab one of the rubix cubes and start playing with it myself. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree I guess :-)