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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 […]

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Survive.

February 21, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Survive.

One of the most asked questions that I ever get—both in comment form, and in email form. I finally took the time to really write out a very long post answering it. Q: How can […]

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Reframes

February 14, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Reframes

On my Facebook page, I asked adults to share something that their child had been doing that was frustrating or upsetting to them. I then invited people in the comments (myself included) to respond, from […]

Philosophy

Progress Doesn’t Have to Be Perfection

January 29, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Progress Doesn’t Have to Be Perfection

A few nights ago, one of my children had a complete and total meltdown. Screaming. Crying. Yelling for their dad, who was not available, working from home in the closed office. (Dad is the stay-at-home […]

Philosophy

The Wrong Time to Lecture

January 26, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on The Wrong Time to Lecture

  Just a simple reminder. ❤ A lot of times, we think (mistakenly) that if we don’t lecture our child “in the moment” about whatever it is that they did wrong (or whatever we think […]

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Reward Charts

January 12, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Reward Charts

Two people have asked me questions about reward charts in the last week or so, so that seemed like a reasonable question to answer next. The reason for both of them asking it was because […]

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Regulated vs Calm

October 20, 2022 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Regulated vs Calm

I see children on my school OT caseload who are three, and four, and five, and six. They are behaving in all sorts of inconvenient ways for traditional schooling. They touch things when they pass […]

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