Hotary Occupational Therapy Services

10/22/2025

This is such a great and helpful visual I found via Regulated Classroom 👏🏽 Such a simple way to explain the importance of coregulation, and how emotions ARE contagious! 💡om

09/17/2025

When Dr. Gabrielle Lyon was just 5 years old, her dad took her on 10-mile bike rides—and physical activity became part of her everyday life. That early exposure to movement laid the foundation for her passion for strength, muscle, and now, her career as a board-certified physician and author of “The Forever Strong Playbook.”

“When you instill that kind of physicality into the cultural dynamics of the household, it changes the trajectory for children,” says Dr. Lyon. Now, she’s teaching her own kids the importance of resistance training—much earlier than when she started herself at 17 years old.

As more families bring structured fitness into their routines, experts are noticing a shift. “This generation of children is seeing their parents at the gym, and so it’s more common for a family to do that together,” says Dr. Eva Seligman of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

And even though the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) has been issuing position statements on the importance of youth resistance training since 1985, getting kids involved still feels a bit “avante-garde,” Dr. Lyon says.

“There are these outdated myths, for example, that training affects bone growth and there [are] lots of injuries,” she says.

The other component at play is that culturally, young girls aren’t encouraged to pick up, say, kettlebells from an early age, but instead to enroll in dance classes, for example.

“There is this very early mental programming that I think changes the landscape of musculature in kids,” Dr. Lyon says. “We have to be very conscious of that if we want to change the metabolic landscape.”

09/11/2025

this could be very useful for several families!

A Seattle startup is bringing back the landline—with a twist.

It’s called Tin Can, a Wi-Fi phone designed just for kids. The retro-style handset only makes voice calls to numbers parents approve, with no apps, internet, or texts. Parents say it gives kids the independence to chat with friends without the risks of smartphones.

Demand has been so high that Tin Can is now backordered until December.

08/25/2025

such a great idea! Especially for those super fast kiddos!

oobi

08/03/2025

this is a great idea!

08/03/2025

this is amazing and so accurate

Kindergarten Achievement Standards
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