Nurture Early Intervention Education

06/11/2025

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04/11/2025

How did I not know about these gorgeous little accessible reading books!! 🤯🤩 Definitely adding to cart now!

Has anybody used them?

Thanks for sharing Happyhandswith_Hallie 🥰

28/10/2025

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03/10/2025

The best learning you will do as an educator or parent! 🙌🌟

Ross Greene’s quote “Kids do well if they can” is a foundational idea in his Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model for understanding and helping children with behavioral challenges.

Children want to do well. If they aren’t, it’s because something is getting in the way — not because they’re unmotivated, manipulative, or defiant.

Greene challenges the traditional view that kids misbehave intentionally or by choice. Instead, he suggests that if a child could do well, they would — because doing well is always preferable.

Problem behaviour often stems from lagging skills, like:
- Emotional regulation
- Frustration tolerance
- Flexibility/adaptability
- Communication or problem-solving
When demands outpace these skills, challenging behaviour can emerge.

If we view misbehaviour as a sign of lagging skills rather than deliberate defiance, it shifts how we respond. Instead of punishment, the CPS model encourages collaboration and skill-building.

CPS promotes compassion and understanding.
It encourages adults (parents, teachers, caregivers) to ask: “What’s getting in the way of this child doing well?” It supports proactive strategies — working with the child to solve problems before they escalate.

Instead of asking: “How do I make this kid behave?”it’s time to start asking ourselves: “What’s making it hard for this kid to behave, and how can I help them build the skills they need?”

Join us for a series of in-person workshops as Dr Greene visits Christchurch, Auckland, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Sydney and Melbourne in 2025.

Learn more at www.illumelearning.com.au/events

27/09/2025

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THIS!!!!!

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04/09/2025

20/08/2025

A fabulous explanation of bottom up regulation, letting the brain know its safe through the body! 🧠🙌 The Energy Regulation work I've been doing really helps support this approach 🥰

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"I’m all for naming our feelings- it’s a crucial *part* of emotion regulation.

But it’s just one part, and I think mainstream parenting tips spend a disproportionate amount of time focusing on it, and not enough time reminding parents that there’s a whole other piece to the picture.

Our emotions are integrated with our nervous system, which means that we can truly FEEL our feelings before we can consciously identify and label them— and that’s not even taking into consideration those folks who struggle to label them, like those who experience alexithymia or any other challenge relating to labeling emotions.

So a more inclusive practice that could be beneficial for all neurotypes, of all ages, regardless of communication ability is to speak directly to the nervous system using body-based and mindfulness based strategies as a bottom up approach to emotional regulation.

Things like deep breathing, deep pressure/squeezes, gentle swaying and rocking are all ways to speak to the nervous system.

If this was helpful, let me know in the comments, and do me a huge favor- please share this with anyone who might need to hear this message! Sharing is caring :)" The OT Butterfly