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9 Time-Management Tips for Frazzled Parents Working from Home

June 23, 2020Parenting

For the most part, your day has very little spare time in it. But when we begin to add your job and parenting and now housework or cleaning, food shopping, and ‘distance’ teaching your kids their academic lessons, it can be overwhelming and make the most organized, put-together person lose their minds! So in this time of craziness, when so much more is being put on your shoulders, here are a few tips that may help keep you a little saner. And who knows you may create a habit in the house that sticks!

How to Tell If What Your Child is Experiencing is Trauma Related Stress

June 6, 2020Trauma and Stress

Did you know that when we go through a traumatic event, like our current pandemic of COVID -19, it can cause some to have behaviors and show symptoms that mimic attention problems/ADHD, especially in our children?
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What Can I Do to Help My Child Get Through the Stress of The Pandemic?

June 6, 2020Trauma and Stress

As a parent, it can be hard to see your child struggle for any reason. It is even harder to look at their struggles and attempt to help them through it when we are going through the same experience they are. The Covid-19 pandemic has hit us all hard. It is a wonder that many of us can still remember to take a shower, let alone try to help our children through the emotional and behavioral craziness they are experiencing too!

So What Is This Thing Called Sensory Processing?

August 15, 2020Sensory Processing

Sensory Processing has become a common phrase that parents, teachers, and some professionals are using a lot today. It merely refers to how we receive, analyze, and respond to the signals and information in our environment. How our brains process this information serves as the foundation for all of our other developmental skills, whether that be behavioral, social, or emotional. Issues that arise in one of our systems functioning, in either taking in the information, organizing it, or even responding to it, can impact all the other processing areas in our brains and, ultimately, affect how we are acting every day.

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