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Muffin Cone

August 2, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

There’s an episode of Bluey called “Muffin Cone” (s2 e43). The girls’ little cousin, Muffin, who’s three years old, comes over to play at their house. She won’t stop sucking her thumb, so her mom […]

Sitting

July 17, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Sitting is not morally better than standing. Sitting is not morally better than pacing. Sitting is not morally better than wandering. Sitting is easier for some adults to handle than standing, pacing, or wandering. Why […]

You’re Not Listening (part 1)

June 7, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Once you start paying attention to how often adults say “listen” to euphemistically mean “obey”, it’s hard to get it out of your head. I think many of the adults I know are trying very […]

Paradise Island App

April 2, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Compared to the other two apps I’ve named, Forest and Finch, this one is much more of a game and also much much simpler in function. I believe it was designed for children and young […]

Forest App

March 31, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Those who have followed this page for awhile know that sometimes I talk about my own journeys with becoming more self-aware of my own needs and what’s going on in my own body, since I […]

Self Awareness

February 16, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

I think there are most likely exactly zero of us who received explicit, overt, interoceptive (inner body sense) instruction growing up. Maybe there are a few of us who did actually receive good instruction, but […]

Low Attention

February 5, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Low attention is not a moral failure. The picture I got from talking to the teacher about the boy was very different from the picture I got when I worked with him. “He leaves things […]