Let’s face it, we can all be creatures of habit at times. Even if we enjoy an occasional moment of spontaneity, we generally like to plan and prepare for most of our daily activities. Children are much the same. Just as routines and schedules help adults to manage daily activities (could you imagine if you …
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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 …
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 …
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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