23 Critical Executive Functioning Skills by Age
Learn key executive functioning skills by age, and engaging executive functioning activities to boost development for toddlers, kids, and teens! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Tommy had a friend from school over for the very first time....
How to Make a Visual Schedule + Use it Well
Learn how to make a visual schedule for toddlers, kids, and teens. Plus, what a visual schedule is, and how to use it for sensory processing issues, Autism, or ADHD. Kids of all ages thrive on routine. Whether it means eating meals at a predictable time...
Sample Feeding Schedules for 1 Year Olds
11, 12, and 13 months plus can be a difficult time to determine a toddler feeding schedule with so many transitions from baby food and bottles. Get these sample feeding schedules with milk for 1 year olds from a feeding expert and mom. A baby's first year is...
10 Auditory Sensory Activities for Kids and Toddlers
Auditory sensory activities are perfect for helping kids overcome auditory processing disorders, auditory seeking and auditory sensitivities. Try these 10 activities to help with auditory sensory processing. “She is so loud! She yells and talks over me constantly.”...
Division of Responsibility: The Game-Changing Strategy for Picky Eating
Learn how to use the division of responsibility to help improve picky eating, whether you have a toddler, kid, or teen. Plus, strategies to implement this picky eating strategy. How many different kinds of picky eating advice have you heard in trying to help...
The 8 Senses Explained: Unraveling the Mystery
Learn about the 8 senses of the body that make up sensory processing, how they work, what they each do, and how the 8 senses relate to kids with sensory processing difficulties. Most of us know that there are 5 senses, we learned about them in kindergarten, but there...
What Parents Need to Know About Sensory Dysregulation
Learn what it looks like for your child to be in sensory dysregulation and how to help them get out of it and prevent it in the future. Most days at school Zoey* was a handful. Her fiery red hair would blur as she quickly ran around the room, touching...
3 Signs it’s a Sensory Meltdown, Not a Tantrum
Is your child having a sensory meltdown or a tantrum? Learn exactly how to tell the difference between a sensory meltdown vs. tantrum and how to help your child’s sensory processing when they are having a sensory overload meltdown. As Sarah lifted her son into...
8 Sensory Seeking Activities to Calm a Wild Child
Use sensory seeking activities to calm and organize sensory seeking behaviors in your "wild" child or toddler that seems to never stop moving. Would you describe your child as wild, rough, or dangerous on a regular basis? If so, those could be signs of sensory seeking...
How to Break the Toe Walking Habit in Your Child
What causes sensory toe walking in children and how do you address it? Learn about toe walking sensory strategies, how it relates to sensory processing disorder, and when to be concerned. In one of our most popular articles of all time, 10 Sensory Red...