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Year: 2023

Activities

“Touched-Out” Roughhousing

March 10, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on “Touched-Out” Roughhousing

Here’s an unconventional tip for parents who are sensory-sensitive or get “touched out”. First of all — there’s nothing wrong with you if your preferred level of touching, snuggling, hugging, wrestling etc in a day […]

Activities

Ultra-Washable Paint

March 10, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Ultra-Washable Paint

Ultra-washable paint: 50% washable tempera paint 50% dish soap or bubble bath or old shampoo that you have left over after switching brands That’s it. Mix those two together. It will create an extremely washable […]

Activities

Painting with Brushes

March 10, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Painting with Brushes

When I introduced watercolors to my children for the first time (back when they were 3 and 2), I thought that the concept of dipping the paintbrush in the paint, wetting the paint, cleaning the […]

At Home

A Successful Meltdown

March 10, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on A Successful Meltdown

(At the time of my writing this, my son was 3 years old.) Yesterday evening was the best meltdown we’ve had in a long time. How’s that for a starter sentence? This is an incredibly […]

Personal

“Stop Crying”

March 7, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on “Stop Crying”

“Stop crying” was one of the most repeated things I heard in my childhood — definitely the most repeated “correction” I ever heard. I was constantly crying too much. And constantly in trouble for it. […]

Personal

Positive Expectations

March 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Positive Expectations

You may have heard the advice to tell your kids what they CAN do, and not what they CAN’T do. Or, to say your POSITIVE expectations, not your NEGATIVE expectations. An example of this might […]

Personal

Half Donut

March 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Half Donut

When I was ten years old, my family was helping start a new church. This is something we did often when I was a kid. The church had a pastor and many of the other […]

Autism

Explaining Neurodivergence with Phones

March 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Explaining Neurodivergence with Phones

One way that I sometimes explain the concept of neurodivergence — that autism, or ADHD* are different wirings of the brain, without being something “wrong” with the brain — to children (or sometimes to their […]

At Home

Two Stories of Power and Powerlessness

March 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Two Stories of Power and Powerlessness

Two stories about power and powerlessness. A child and an adult were entering a classroom, together, one on one. The child skipped ahead of the adult through the open door of the classroom, zigzagged to […]

At Home

Giving Kids Power

March 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Giving Kids Power

Okay, after my last post, you might be asking, how do we give kids power and autonomy? Honestly, a different way to ask this same question might be, how do we protect their right to […]

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