Sensory Processing Disorder is a challenging beast. If your child has signs of SPD, or an SPD diagnosis, you have likely already experienced many battles and frustrating moments, just trying to get through this thing called daily life. Maybe your child can’t stand the feeling of t-shirt tags. Or the sound of a chair scraping…
During our busy lives, connection can be hard! But you know that saying, ‘quality over quantity?’ Sometimes, that’s not quite true in parenting. What do I mean? I mean that sometimes, more is better. Don’t sweat making every moment with your child magical. Those little moments…in the car, running errands, making dinner together, finding that…
Ah, back to school! We love it and we hate it, right? Because no matter how ready we are to have the kids back on a schedule, that means WE have to be scheduled, too! Morning person or not, working outside the home or not, we have to set that alarm and get going on…
We want to shield our children from pain, difficulty, and trauma. This is natural. But we do our kids a disservice when we succumb to enabling. What is enabling? This is when we, as parents, inadvertently encourage unwanted behavior. Case in point: when we give in to a tantrum in order to avoid a scene…
What do we mean by autonomy? Autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision for oneself, or to have choice and control over yourself. Behavioral autonomy is the ability to make decisions and follow through with actions, rather than simply following along with peers or parents. Often, we think of teenagers when we think…
New to learning about autonomy in kids? Start with our post on creating autonomy for toddlers and preschoolers. Welcome back! Ready to create autonomy for teens and school-aged kids? Feeling a sense of control and direction over one’s life is hugely important to school-aged kids and teenagers, and it starts in the toddler years. In…