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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 […]

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Offering Grace

February 13, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Offering Grace

My friend Jessica, who runs the page Once Upon an Upset, once wrote: “So many of us are afraid of getting taken advantage of that we forget the option of offering grace.” It’s strange that […]

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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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Wouldn’t It Be More Fun…?

December 29, 2022 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Wouldn’t It Be More Fun…?

A few days ago, I was holding one of my children, who was distressed and melting down. We were sitting together on the couch while they sobbed, and then settled down, and then would remind […]

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The “One Right Thing”

December 29, 2022 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on The “One Right Thing”

The WHY behind what parenting choices we make matters sometimes maybe even more than WHAT parenting choice we make. About four seconds before bedtime, my then-4yo switched which toy he wanted to bring to bed […]

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

December 28, 2022 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on The Stories We Tell Ourselves

I read a post in one of my favorite facebook groups the other day that made something so incredibly clear to me, that I sometimes struggle to put into words clearly enough for other parents […]

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Five Rules

October 19, 2022 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Five Rules

This is what goes through my head when I decide if I need to say “no” to something. (…on a good day, on a regulated day, when I’m parenting consciously…not just responding out of habit) […]

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