Sensory Therapy

24/12/2025

Wishing you a happy and healthy Christmas

22/12/2025

ADHD can be an asset in the right environment 💃

20/12/2025

It’s ok to do Christmas your own way 🥰

19/12/2025

Things to avoid when your child learns to write

If you are wanting your child or student to write their name of the alphabet, read these 5 mistakes to avoid when introducing handwriting to kids FIRST!

19/12/2025

Christmas can be derailed before it even begins when adults carry fixed ideas about what Christmas food should look like.

For children and young people with ARFID, these expectations can turn a season meant for comfort and connection into one filled with pressure, fear, and shame.

This visual is written in the voice of the young person, to help adults understand what ARFID feels like at Christmas – and what actually helps.

Because festive food traditions should never matter more than a child feeling safe, accepted, and trusted.

Save this. Share it with family. Let it do some of the explaining for you.

Download: ARFID at Christmas – What I Need You to Know
Details in visual.

18/12/2025

Show compassion for kids with difficulties after school ❤️

Sensory overload doesn’t usually explode out of nowhere — it builds in layers throughout the school day. This visual explains how noise, movement, lights, and demands stack up until a young person reaches breaking point.

Full After-School Restraint Collapse Toolkit, including sensory processing checklist, available via the link in comments below ⬇️ or via Linktree Shop in Bio.

18/12/2025

Play doesn’t need instructions, outcomes or perfection. It needs time, space, and the freedom to follow curiosity 🌿

18/12/2025

Parenting sometimes involves being unpopular with our children

Save this, and when you need to — show it to your kids.

Because sometimes we forget that parenting isn’t always supposed to feel smooth or adored.
Some days we set limits, ask hard questions, enforce boundaries, double-check plans, or hold them accountable…
and we walk away wondering if we’re doing it wrong.

We worry we’re being too much.
Too strict.
Too protective.
Too involved.

But the truth is:
this is the job.

We persist,
and they resist —
and that’s part of the dance of growing up.

Kids don’t always recognise guidance for what it is.
They don’t see the safety behind the rules,
or the love inside the boundaries,
or the care behind the questions.

But one day, they will.

And until then, we keep showing up — steady, loving, imperfect, consistent —
because even when they’re annoyed, rolling their eyes, or pulling away,
what they’re actually experiencing is a parent who cares enough to stay present.

That’s not the failure.
That’s the gift. ❤️

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18/12/2025

You can say no especially at Christmas in ways that are kind

17/12/2025

So sad that reading to our children is on the decline 😢

Why aren’t more parents reading to their kids?

A new article from The74 says it’s not just time, it’s also tech. Screens are everywhere. For many young parents, reading feels like school, not fun.

"When we introduce screen time very young, and we don’t manage the amount of time children are spending on screens, … it can be difficult for children to transition from such an exciting medium to a medium like a book that may initially feel not as exciting" - Rebecca Parlakian, Senior Director of Programs, ZERO TOTHREE

But when kids miss out on daily reading, they miss out on a lot: vocabulary, focus, social skills. Read the article: https://bit.ly/4rD4EVR

17/12/2025

Children need more than answers handed to them —
they need the ability to understand, question, explore, and make sense of the world on their own.

Teaching them how to think means giving them the tools to:
pause,
reflect,
consider different angles,
ask better questions,
and trust their own reasoning.

It means letting them wrestle with ideas instead of memorising conclusions.
Letting them form opinions, not inherit them.
Letting them learn to sift through noise, pressure, and influence with a clear, steady mind.

Because when we only teach children what to think,
we raise compliance.
But when we teach them how to think,
we raise clarity, curiosity, and confidence.

We raise kids who know how to make choices,
how to look for answers,
how to recognise truth,
how to stand on their own two feet
without needing someone to script life for them.

We don’t need them to think like us.
We need them to think for themselves.

They don’t need our conclusions.
They need our guidance.
Our conversations.
Our willingness to let them grow a mind that’s truly their own.

That’s how independent thinkers are made. ❤️

Quote Credit: Margaret Mead❣️

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