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When One Sibling is “Right” and One Sibling is “Playing”

September 27, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on When One Sibling is “Right” and One Sibling is “Playing”

I wrote a post about myself, an adult, not freaking out when my children said things that were factually incorrect because I knew they were playing at having that skill. Like pretending to read a […]

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Case Study: Sensory Mismatch in Play

September 13, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Case Study: Sensory Mismatch in Play

I’ve written before about “sensory mismatch”. It’s one of the hardest things for people with vastly different sensory profiles to be able to get along with each other in stressful circumstances. Let me tell you […]

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Turn Arguing into Play

September 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Turn Arguing into Play

A little moment from my life: The kids (5 and 4) ran to get in the car. They began arguing: Apollo: I got here first! Summer: No, I got here first! Apollo: No, I got […]

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Learning To Fight

September 6, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Learning To Fight

“I wish I could let my kids learn to work out their own fights, but it turns from verbal to physical in the blink of an eye. I have to intervene. How could I let […]

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In the “Wrong”

August 19, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on In the “Wrong”

My kids built an obstacle course together out of pillows and mats in our house. My son went on it first. When he got to the end, he flopped down on the mats, laying down […]

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Child-Led Scissors Play

August 15, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Child-Led Scissors Play

Yesterday, my kids (age 5 and 4) found a stack of papers that my son had brought home from school. The speech therapist sent home a bunch of picture cards that he could use at […]

Activities

Playing With Scissors

August 8, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Playing With Scissors

Yesterday, my kids (age 5 and 4) found a stack of papers that my son had brought home from school. The speech therapist sent home a bunch of picture cards that he could use at […]

Child Development

Speaking and Silence

August 2, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Speaking and Silence

There are probably a hundred things I love about the sisterly relationship between Bluey and Bingo. The show does such an incredible job at honoring their different personalities as well as their different stages of […]

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Sensory Mismatch & Bedtime Routines

June 23, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sensory Mismatch & Bedtime Routines

A challenging thing about having children with vastly different sensory processing styles, or about having a very different sensory processing style yourself than your child, can be finding solutions in your family that meet both […]

Activities

Sticky Notes

June 22, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Sticky Notes

It started with a sticky note on a book that someone sold to my husband. My son got really interested in it. I was unaware of this, and when he came asking me for “paper […]

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