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Windshield Wipers & Hitting Your Sibling

May 11, 2025 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Windshield Wipers & Hitting Your Sibling

How is driving on the opposite side of the road like your kid hitting their sibling? *** My family recently moved to a new country. Now I’m driving on the right side of the car […]

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Co-Regulation in Action

May 10, 2025 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Co-Regulation in Action

One of my absolute favorite things about our new life in Australia is that we’ve made best friends with the neighbours, who have several kids close in age to both of my children. All of […]

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Five Things from My Book I Wish Every Grown-Up Knew

May 10, 2025 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Five Things from My Book I Wish Every Grown-Up Knew

#5 – Culture does not dictate children’s development. Just because a teacher, grandparent, friend, book, or person on the internet thinks your child “ought to be ready by now” does not necessarily mean that they […]

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Dysregulation at Home

January 17, 2025 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Dysregulation at Home

During one of the recent snow days home, my kids were getting really sick of being cooped up inside and struggling to be able to play with one another successfully. They both needed more space […]

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Rage For No Reason

January 16, 2025 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Rage For No Reason

We came back from the usual 2-week holiday break, and then had school cancelled for an entire week due to snow and road conditions. So, when my kids went back to school yesterday (with a […]

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Push Them To Breaking…

January 16, 2025 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Push Them To Breaking…

(All I’m doing in this post is describing adult/child interactions that I observed, but I want to give you a heads up that it’s kind of infuriating. I think that’s important to share and to […]

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Wishing, and Frustrated For Wishing

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Wishing, and Frustrated For Wishing

We have been through some wild things as a family in our lives, but none of them have strained us as thoroughly as these past few weeks. They’ve been the hardest for our family’s well-being, […]

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A Child Reads YCPOV

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on A Child Reads YCPOV

(Content warning: This post contains discussion of physical child abuse.) *** When I was nine or so, my family went on a road trip. I read all the books I’d brought with me. Bored, I […]

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A More Nuanced “What’s Wrong”

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on A More Nuanced “What’s Wrong”

One skill that has been really helping me in these past few weeks has been the skill of being able to describe to myself in my head, in detail, what feels bodily wrong when things […]

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One Thing Different

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on One Thing Different

Bedtime has been rough for… Well, let me back up. Bedtime has been out of whack in general for like, six weeks now. But bedtime has been especially bad and full of tears and yelling […]

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