2024, The Occuplaytional Therapist

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December 19, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Books In Your Child’s Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things, the Occuplaytional Therapist (Kelsie Olds) combines reassuring knowledge, modern research, light humor, and empathetic imagination to provide helpful insights and collaborative […]

Wishing, and Frustrated For Wishing

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

We have been through some wild things as a family in our lives, but none of them have strained us as thoroughly as these past few weeks. They’ve been the hardest for our family’s well-being, […]

A Child Reads YCPOV

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

(Content warning: This post contains discussion of physical child abuse.) *** When I was nine or so, my family went on a road trip. I read all the books I’d brought with me. Bored, I […]

Ten Ways – Toothbrushing

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Ten things I could’ve done when my kid didn’t want to brush her teeth… Nonverbal cue: Set the toothbrush down next to my kid. Toothpaste already loaded. Wordlessly. Offer alternatives: Mouthwash, floss, a different flavor […]

A More Nuanced “What’s Wrong”

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

One skill that has been really helping me in these past few weeks has been the skill of being able to describe to myself in my head, in detail, what feels bodily wrong when things […]

Strange World

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

I love the movie Strange World. It’s charming, compelling, visually gorgeous, and doesn’t get enough hype. It was my kids’ favorite for awhile like a year ago, but we hadn’t watched it since. I put […]

Baking Soda + Vinegar = Empowerment

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

We have been using the park after school as a good strategy for getting/staying regulated. Just going and camping out with a meal for a few hours, til it’s close to bedtime. But on this […]

One Thing Different

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Bedtime has been rough for… Well, let me back up. Bedtime has been out of whack in general for like, six weeks now. But bedtime has been especially bad and full of tears and yelling […]

The Sensory Weight of Disability

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

The sensory weight of disability. It’s the way it feels like I had barely learned how to take care of myself without self invalidation. It’s the way that all of my feel-good strategies involve making […]

Doing It Live

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

A weird component of running a page like this while my kids are 5 and 6, not grown, is that I’m still in the middle of this. It’s not theoretical and it’s not like I’m […]