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5 Strategies to Raising a Confident Kid
HOW TO PROMOTE INDEPENDENCE IN YOUR CHILD I've spent years watching kindergarten students acclimate to the classroom. Some students set themselves apart from their peers immediately: they are very verbal they can already read or demonstrate strong foundational...
8 Genius Therapist Inspired Toddler Hacks
My New Favorite Parenting Hack Book Did you register for "What to expect when you're expecting?", my mom asked me on the way to my shower. "No—there's an app for that!" I told her, laughing. I knew she wouldn't get the joke, but I really did have the app. It's a...
Ten Best Apps for Handwriting with Kids
As I walked into school the other day, a friend of mine grabbed me in a panic and said “Should my four-year-old really be practicing a page of letters every night?! This is the only time I get to spend with her and I’m forcing her to write a whole page of D’s! This...
11 Things on a School OT’s Summer To-Do Wish List
Whether you finished strong or crawled to the finish line this past week, you made it to the end of the school year! You have the summer off...What should you do? We have the summer off to relax, recoup, and reenergize ...right? Yes! However, we are Occupational...
7 Myths about Mindfulness & Kids
Are you practicing and teaching mindfulness? Mindfulness programming with children and in schools is becoming a more popular practice. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or therapist, is there anything stopping you from practicing mindfulness yourself or from using it...
This is Why We Shouldn’t Push Handwriting for Kids
Pushing kids into writing before they are developmentally ready happens to be one of my pet peeves. (I actually have quite a few of them, you can read all about them here.) Experience has shown me is that children should NOT be pushed into handwriting before they're...