I received this question and I wanted to share with everyone as I believe it is a question that a lot of you may have: I was intrigued by your process of having your son jump on a trampoline to calm him down. We are still in the process of figuring out exactly what is going on with my son, but he has total melt downs over very small things and the ...
Sensory Processing Disorder
“I Hate You!” he said.
"I hate you." He was mad because things weren't going his way. The issue was extremely minor but in his small view of life, he thought the issue was worth exploding over and then he lost it. This isn't the first time that I have heard these words come from my seven-year-old son's mouth. The hurtful phrase started about six months ago and ...
Helping Your Sensory Child Out of a Meltdown
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Daily Schedule
I was probably born organizing my diapers. By nature, I am an organized person and LOVE organization. So keeping a daily schedule with Bubs has not been a hard thing because I already crave that. I realize that some people take the "whatever" approach on time. But I was reminded of the importance of a schedule for sensory kids ...
Appropriate Ways and Inappropriate Ways
Anger and frustration get Bubs in a lot of trouble. A wise mom suggested that I give him acceptable outlets instead of just telling him "no" or "stop." I needed to train him to know how to handle his hard situations. He was unable to properly handle the emotions and needed training to learn acceptable ...
Simply ABC
Yesterday I suggested calendar-charting your child's days - the good, bad, and ugly. Here is another idea that I found about charting. In a forum for parents with special need kids, a mom wrote that she uses ABC's to help figure out how to avoid her son's behavior issues the next time. As an educator myself, I was familiar with this concept ...
Oh, Mister Moon
When I was a child we would sing the song "Oh, Mister Moon" while driving home at night. As a child I never dreamed that later in life the moon would affect my life so much. In September 2008 I started charting Bubs days. On my calendar you would see three marks: X, 1/2, and cry. "X" were for the days that were an emotional wreck. "1/2" for days ...
Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
While surfing for some info, I came upon the official website of the book The Out-of-Sync Child. While reading the "Introduction" page, I found some great thoughts that I want to share with you. They sum up Sensory Processing Disorder so well. Sensory processing—the ability to organize sensory information for use in daily life. [While studying ...
What’s in a Name?: Our Out-of-Sync Life
Although I don't understand 95% of Shakespeare, I do remember a few lines from his famous plays. Here is a line said by Juliet in the play Romeo and Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." While I see both sides of this concept, I believe that it is very important when naming ...
Review: Kids’ Train Ket Set 2 & 3
In February I introduced you to Kids' Express Train KET sets. KET stands for Kid's Express Train. These sets of CD's help children with speech and language. Today, I am going to specifically cover KET Sets 2 and 3. Each set contains two music CDs of at least 24 songs, a 12 page manual, and CD-Rom that contains 100's of pictures in color and black ...