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We know that the way we take in sensation impacts how we feel and, in turn, how we act and interact. We've discussed the global emotional expressions of body-based experiences - emotions like anxiety, embarrassment, surprise, confusion, needy, etc. Today, we are going to dive into social situations and a topic that's been coming up lately - kids saying things to others that are unkind or saying seemingly purposefully hurtful or mean things to others.
Well, at least, the things being said were interpreted as purposefully mean or hurtful. It turns out the child who said what they said was NOT trying to be mean at all. They did not set out to intentionally hurt the other person with their words, and we know there are many sensory-motor reasons for that. So today, we're using a Sensory Emotional Lens, particularly through the lens of being Unaware yet Deep Thinking, to examine meanness.
In this episode, you'll discover:
That what you expect is correct - your child is NOT actually trying to be mean and that they actually do care about what they are saying
Why your child says mean things
Why reminding them with statements like “We are not mean to our friends” and “Being mean is not kind” is not working
Ways to understand and explain why this is happening, based on the way they are processing sensation
Ways to help your child in times when they find themselves ‘being mean’
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and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
Potty training can be a rollercoaster of emotions for both caregivers and kids. The pressure and stress surrounding this milestone can feel overwhelming at times. Whether it's the comments from other caregivers or grandparents about it being "time" or the need to meet deadlines for preschool transitions, the pressure to help our kids achieve this goal can be intense.
As we chatted about in a recent episode, our stress levels can affect our kids, and stress can make it really hard for them to go to the bathroom. We also know that there are many sensory motor reasons that can make potty training tough and stressful for our kids. So today, we're taking a Sensory Emotional Lens on potty training in hopes of making this journey a little less stressful for everyone!
In this episode, you'll discover:
The underlying sensory processing and motor capacities needed for successful potty training
Common emotional experiences during potty training
How to invite positive emotional experiences during potty training
Ways to act and interact with your child, based on their Sensory Emotional Personalities, to support emotion regulation and sensory motor capacities while potty training
Ways to use play, including exploration, power roles, and helper roles, to bring success in potty training
For more strategies for potty training and other daily living skills, please visit our learning portal in the upcoming weeks: https://sensoryemotionalcenteroflearning.teachable.com
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Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
Believe it or not, Halloween can sometimes seem more of a trick than a treat for our sensory emotional kids. On the surface we can see or sense the different sensory experiences that Halloween brings - lights and sounds of decorations, smells of candy and even decorations sometimes, and costumes of unfamiliar fabrics and textures.
When we consider movement experiences, we can anticipate navigation through crowds and navigating places in the dark with lots of people and lots of different uneven surfaces, not to mention needing to navigate around and over decorations.
Halloween – and particularly the culminating event of trick or treating – challenges every single sensory system to process novel experiences and, therefore, can bring every single emotional experience - and today, we’re going to talk about it.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Ways to anticipate and understand the emotional and social experiences your child may have on Halloween
Halloween costume choices that will support emotion regulation during Halloween
Ways to act and interact with your child, based on their Sensory Emotion Personalities during novel situations, to support emotion regulation and sensory-motor capacities during Halloween.
For more information on Halloween, please check out our Halloween blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/preparing-our-sensory-kids-for-halloween/
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Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
During any big transition or change in routine for our children, we spend a lot of time talking about how to support our kids, and we, as parents and caregivers, put all our effort into this. We focus on understanding the tricky behaviors of our children and preventing and responding to them. What we don't spend time on is what supports us as caregivers during busy, tricky, crazy seasons in life. In fact, we often completely put our needs aside at times like these. Then what happens? You guessed it - WE are the ones with the tricky behaviors!
In this episode, we examine parent and caregiver stress through a sensory-emotional lens and discuss ways to infuse emotionally informed sensory-motor experiences into our lives to support ourselves in tough moments.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Your own tricky behaviors as a stress response in yourself
Ways to embrace your tricky behaviors in a way that allows you to make changes to them, versus just moving through them as something to be expected or “it’s just what I do”
Sensory emotional strategies to address overwhelm, exhaustion, stress, and disorganization in yourself
Quick and easy ways to move your body in your day that will promote feelings of strength, resilience, control, connection, and organization in your life
For more information on Great Kids at Heart, our adult programs at Great Kids Place, please visit: https://greatkidsplace.com/great-kids-at-heart/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
In this episode, we're looking at sensory diets and sensory breaks through a sensory emotional lens. Sensory diets provide opportunities throughout the day for a child to engage in sensory input to support regulation. In the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model, we know that the way we move our bodies and take in sensation impacts the way that we feel. We also know that children with sensory processing differences tend to experience specific emotional expressions - specific ways of feeling. When using a sensory diet, we must consider these emotional experiences alongside the body-based sensory-motor experiences in order to fully support regulation and engagement. This episode discusses ways to infuse emotionally informed sensory-motor experiences into sensory diets through Sensory Emotional roles.
In this episode, you'll discover:
The purpose of a sensory diet
Pitfalls to avoid when using or creating a sensory diet
Tips to make sensory diets the most effective
Sensory motor activities that help children to feel a certain way in both their body and their emotions
Sensory diet strategies to address anxiety, inattention, confusion and embarrassment, neediness, and scattered frustration
Ways to create Sensory Emotional Roles as a component of a sensory diet (better known here as a sensory lifestyle) based on a child's Sensory Emotional Personality
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatkidsplace/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
Michele and Amanda are back to continue their conversation about supporting our sensory emotional kids in the classroom as we head back to school this year. Getting to know a new school, a new teacher, new routines, and expectations that are different from last year can be really overwhelming. We recognize that we all process sensory information differently and choose different ways of being according to our capacities to process information from the world and our bodies. In school, these ways of being can significantly impact performance and participation in school-based activities.
Michele and Amanda share valuable insights and strategies to help ease these transitions. In this episode, they dive deeper to discuss how to support children who present as confused, embarrassed, full of wonder, needy, compassionate, scattered and disorganized, intentional, and passionate (sometimes disguised as bossy). Strategies are presented to support sensory discrimination, motor planning, and posture.
In this episode you’ll discover:
How to know if the way a child is acting and interacting in the classroom is related to sensory motor differences
Common challenges in the classroom for children who are confused, embarrassed, or full of wonder and constantly experimenting with sensation or/and have difficulty discriminating/perceiving and integrating sensory input
Common challenges in the classroom for children who are needy or/and have weakness in strength and endurance
Common challenges in the classroom for children who are scattered, disorganized, intentional about how they will do things or what they will do or bossy or/and have difficulty with motor planning and coordination
Ways to set your child up for success by communicating to our child’s teacher using the language and idea that “My child is successful when…”
Sensory emotional strategies for the classroom for children who are confused, embarrassed, full of wonder, needy, scattered, disorganized, intentional or bossy
Join our community!
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatkidsplace/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Amanda Newchok, MS, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist, Great Kids Place
Amanda is a passionate occupational therapist with about twenty years of experience working with the pediatric population. She is a specialist in Sensory Processing and Integration Disorder, certified in the evaluation and treatment of Sensory Processing Disorder by the Sensory Therapies and Research Institute. Amanda also serves as faculty for the Sensory Therapies and Research Institute, where she educates therapists from around the country on the relationship between regulation, relationship, and sensation in the treatment of Sensory Processing Disorder, particularly in the school setting.
Getting to know a new school, a new teacher, new routines, and expectations that are different from last year can be really overwhelming for some. We recognize that we all process sensory information differently and choose different ways of being according to our capacities to process information from the world and our bodies. In school, these ways of being can significantly impact performance and participation in school-based activities.
Join Michele and special guest Amanda Newchok for this special episode of A Sensory Emotional Lens where they share valuable insights and strategies to help ease these transitions. In this episode, Michele and Amanda discuss how to support children who present as anxious, deeply feeling, unaware, inattentive, and deep thinking. Strategies are presented to support sensory over-responsivity (hypersensitivity) and sensory under-responsivity (hyposensitivity).
In this episode you’ll discover:
How to know if the way a child is acting and interacting in the classroom is related to sensory motor differences
Common challenges in the classroom for children who are anxious, deeply feeling or/and hypersensitive or over responsive to sensations
Common challenges in the classroom for children who are unaware, inattentive or/and hyposensitive or under responsive to sensations
Ways to set your child up for success by communicating to our child’s teacher using the language and idea that “My child is successful when…”
Sensory emotional strategies for the classroom for children who are anxious, deeply feeling, unaware, inattentive and deep thinking presenting in their own world.
Join our community!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesensoryemotional_ot/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatkidsplace/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
Amanda Newchok, MS, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist, Great Kids Place
Amanda is a passionate occupational therapist with about twenty years of experience working with the pediatric population. She is a specialist in Sensory Processing and Integration Disorder, certified in the evaluation and treatment of Sensory Processing Disorder by the Sensory Therapies and Research Institute. Amanda also serves as faculty for the Sensory Therapies and Research Institute, where she educates therapists from around the country on the relationship between regulation, relationship, and sensation in the treatment of Sensory Processing Disorder, particularly in the school setting.
Like many common “go to” strategies, tangible rewards do not always work for all kids - particularly for individuals who process sensation differently than yourself and others. In fact, an offering of a reward for an expected behavior often has the opposite effect for some kids – again, particularly our sensory kids – and results in further dysregulation and lack of participation. In this episode, we’ll take a sensory emotional lens on reward, focusing on the feeling of reward and the sense of reward, to provide new strategies for using rewards for expected behaviors.
In this episode you’ll discover:
Why rewards don’t always work
What is needed to help your child feel a sense of reward in order to perform expected behaviors and tasks
How to shift your focus and provide rewards in a way that will bring success for you and your child
Strategies to set up the provision of rewards from a sensory emotional lens
Join our community!
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatkidsplace/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
Social interactions with peers and/or siblings is a common area of challenge for children (and all individuals) with sensory emotional differences. There is often a mismatch in how we think the social experience will go and how it actually goes. This mismatch leads to decreased success in social interactions and accompanying tricky behaviors when our kids are in social scenarios. This mismatch is caused by underlying sensory motor differences and the emotional expression of them.
To better understand this, we’re using a Sensory Emotional Lens to dig deeper into peer and sibling social interactions.
In this episode you’ll discover:
The underlying sensory processing and motor capacities of social interactions. What is needed for success in social interactions from a sensory emotional lens?
The observable behaviors that indicate there may be a sensory motor difference leading to challenges in social interactions.
What we can do to help our sensory emotional kids find success with peers and siblings
How to interpret the situation from THEIR sensory emotional experiences
How to reduce felt stress of the situation
How to read their emotional expression and join them there!
How to set up specific roles for our kids in social situations to facilitate success
Join our community!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesensoryemotional_ot/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatkidsplace/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
This week’s episode of a Sensory Emotional Lens builds off of last week’s show on the explorations of new experiences, but this time, we’re putting an emphasis on the benefits of taking risks. Taking risks when done in play is a rich sensory-emotional opportunity and brings several benefits. In addition to sensory-emotional exploration, taking risks brings novelty, ignites problem-solving abilities, builds regulation strategies, tests and learns boundaries, and allows the reformation of a sense of self.
In this episode you’ll discover:
The body-based and emotion-based experiences in taking risks
The ways in which risk taking behavior facilitates brain development
How taking risks develops regulation capacities
Why taking risks helps children learn and understand boundaries
The roles you can play and strategies you can use in daily life to support children to take risks in confident, healthy, and safe ways to enhance self-esteem
Join our community!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesensoryemotional_ot/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatkidsplace/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatKidsPlace/
Want more resources? Please visit our blog: https://greatkidsplace.com/category/blog/
and https://sensoryemotional.org/
About
Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®
Founder & Director, Great Kids Place
Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™
Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. She works and lives sensational kids! Michele is a fellow of Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, OTR.
Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists from all over the country and world and continues to provide consultation to schools on treatment for sensory processing disorder. Michele has co-authored a chapter in the 3rd edition of Sensory Integration: Theory and Practice, the textbook for sensory evaluation and treatment, alongside world-renowned pioneers in the field, and is currently writing a parenting book and children’s books. She hopes to help everyone - children and adults- understand their Sensory Emotional Personality™ style and ways to find strength and joy within them.
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