With many of us working from home, home schooling children, caring for family members and other life situations it’s no wonder so many of us are feeling tired, irritable, stressed, and uncertain. The uncertainty and change that the pandemic has created in our lives has been huge and is likely to have repercussions into the […]
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While we look at the topic of rest I wonder, what did you and your family fit into this past week? I’m guessing it was a lot. If you wrote down everything you and your kids did over the past week, would you be surprised by how much you do? Let’s face it, we all
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The Rainbow Clinic’s dedication to improving the daily lives of the families we assist was once again recognised in the lead up to the 2019 Lake Macquarie Business Excellence Awards. I was thrilled to be named a finalist in the category of Outstanding Business Leader. While I did not take home the award, this acknowledgement
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If you have a child aged between four and five years old, chances are you have heard the term ‘school readiness’. It can be daunting thinking about all the skills your child might need before they head off to school and the concept of ‘readiness’ can be confusing. So, what makes a child ready for
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Interoception is perhaps the lesser known eighth sense. Just like taste, sight, smell, touch, hearing, proprioception and vestibular; we use interoception to help us make sense of the world and what we experience each day. More specifically, interoception helps us feel or sense what is happening inside of our body like hunger, thirst, feeling hot
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Every day we experience the world through our senses – sight, smell, touch, sound, taste and even body awareness and movement. How we interpret and translate the information received through our senses is called sensory processing. While this may sound simple enough, we all process sensory information differently. When it comes to our senses, there
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As parents, our number one priority is to keep our children safe. Often this might mean we want to shelter them from certain situations, information, people that we feel are threatening or situations that give us anxiety. But if our children are not exposed to factual information and given opportunities to make their own decisions
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With the ever-present cloud of COVID-19 hanging over our heads, we have all been thrust into a position of change. We are navigating social distancing, juggling working from home with home-schooling, and finding new ways to connect and maintain the services we depend on. In this unusual time, The Rainbow Clinic remains dedicated to supporting
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Food fussiness is something many parents deal with. From the early stages of introducing your baby to food, right through to teen and even adult years, mealtimes can be hard. Maybe you spent hours in the kitchen preparing a meal you thought your child would love, only to have it thrown back at you (literally
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For parents who are exposed to the term ‘paediatric occupational therapy’ for the first time, it would not be unusual to question the relevance or even know how an occupational therapist could help your child. Many of us associate the word ‘occupation’ with adults and work life, and it is because of this that the
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