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Immediate Obedience

June 13, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Immediate obedience is a fear response. There isn’t immediate obedience when you’re committed to parenting your children without making them afraid of you. Sometimes your kid just needs a second to process what you asked […]

Imagine

May 17, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

Imagine how unsafe you would have to feel before you would punch somebody. Imagine how threatened you would have to feel before you would intentionally knock things over and run away. Imagine how distressed you […]

What is Behavior Communicating?

December 7, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

The phrase “behavior is communication” was invented in response to a set of ideas, a counter to them. One of these ideas is that children’s inconvenient or strange or annoying behavior is a sign of […]

Self Check-Out

June 22, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

I had an epiphany recently while checking out at the store. I think sometimes parents are to their children, what self checkout machines at stores are to adults. 😂 “PLACE YOUR ITEM IN THE BAG.” […]

Defiance

March 11, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

There are times in my life when I start feeling my own internal “defiance” increase—though I don’t usually call it by that word. I start feeling resistant to having to answer people about the decisions […]