Family ADDventures

11/20/2025

It’s that time of year when you have HSA funds to spend! Use them before you lose them!!

11/13/2025

What a pleasure to join the Bexar County Collective of Care celebration today!

Connecting with nonprofits like SACRD.org Romero Davis and Alejandra Maia of United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County was a blessing!

We learned the CRCG of Bexar county was awarded 400 million dollars to build a crisis center!

Thank you Erica of Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for facilitating and leading the charge along with Chief Mata and Bexar County courts!

Also, excited to be a referral practitioner for SYNC and AACN!

Thanks again to Chief Mata of the Bexar County Juvenile Justice Dept for the invite! Family ADDventures will be serving on 2 of the task force action groups starting in January! Let’s work! 💪🏼

11/08/2025

All about Behavior Intervention Plans! (Latest IG reel in comments)

🛑If your BIP strategies include “first, then” or “offer choices” without regulation they WON’T WORK! These strategies are executive functioning strategies, Not co-regulation strategies! Here’s the science:

❓Why “First, Then” and “Offer Choices” Don’t Work When a Child Is “Downstairs”

1. Neurobiological Framework (Dr. Dan Siegel’s Model)

🤯When a child is triggered or dysregulated, the downstairs brain—the limbic system and brainstem—takes over. This part of the brain controls survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

🧘🏽‍♀️The upstairs brain—the prefrontal cortex—is responsible for reasoning, sequencing, and decision-making.

🌩️During dysregulation, the upstairs brain is offline.

🌪️Any request that requires executive functioning (thinking through a choice, following a sequence, understanding consequences) is neurologically impossible at that moment.

📋So when a plan says, “First finish your math, then you can play,” or “Would you like to walk or talk it out?”—those interventions assume access to cognitive processing that the child doesn’t yet have.

2. What Happens in Practice

👨🏽‍💼”First, then” and “offer choices” are executive-function strategies, not co-regulation strategies.

If used too early (while the student is still in the stress response), they can:

😫Increase frustration (“I can’t think or choose right now”).

😟Be perceived as control or threat, escalating the nervous system further.

💪Create power struggles between adult and child.

☎️ Want to review your BIP? Schedule a free strategy call at the link in our profile!

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11/06/2025

It was a pleasure to meet attorney Katy Boortz of Boortz Law Texas today at my favorite Tea Shop! Always wonderful connecting with aligned practice owners who protect kids and support families!

11/04/2025

Our favorite farm is accepting donations for their 100 animals!

Help Us Keep the Farm Warm!Winter brings challenges — but together, we can ensure our animals stay safe, healthy, and fed. Your support keeps our barn doors open to the community and helps us continue our hands-on educational programs for families and children.Every gift makes a real difference .....