These big bouncy balls (similar to an exercise ball) sit in a stationary base and are designed to blend in with nursery decor. To soothe baby you simply take a seat and gently bounce.

Whether students or adults are sitting on traditional chairs or using core strength to balance on exercise balls, she said, everyone needs to stand and move around after 20 to 30 minutes of sitting.

SHERWOOD, Ore. - Parents know how much of a chore it is to get a child to sit still but one second-grade teacher may have found the solution. In Sari Hedges' classroom at Hopkins Elementary there ...

Donna Yehl's fourth-grade students bob behind their desks, heads nodding up and down as if the children were on the deck of a ship.

Some gently bounce on stability balls. Others rock back and forth on plastic wobble chairs that move like spring animals on a playground. Some sit cross-legged on pillows around a low table.

And sitting on a ball all day might well be too much for most people. A 2009 study examining the effects of sitting on an exercise ball as opposed to a chair concluded cautiously that “ the ...

Spaetig said parents will often sit on the balls when they come for meetings. ... "I'll ask my teacher if I can sit on a bouncy ball," she said. April 5, 2004. DEBORAH BACH.

A new grant from SEF provides for stability balls (shown here) ... Stability balls 'bounce' into the classroom at Franklin School. Published: May. 17, 2013, 6:39 p.m.