If your child struggles with emotional regulation, the Zones of Regulation® can be a great tool to help them. Our team recently had the opportunity to learn from Leah M. Kuypers — who developed the Zones of Regulation®. Here, we’ve shared our learnings that you can use to help your child. “Life is 10% what […]
READ MOREHow to Raise an Emotionally Health Child
How does your child know how they are feeling when they are playing with peers, with family or by themselves? As humans, we experience a huge range of emotions: happiness, sadness, frustration, worry, anxiousness, excitement, anger and just to name a few. It’s important to understand how we feel, because it impacts how we respond […]
READ MOREHelping Manage Your Child’s Behaviour
Our Director and Senior Clinician, Lisa Hughes, has reviewed ‘The Bonsai Child’ by Judith Locke and shares her learnings about how to help our children develop resilience. As Occupational Therapists, lots of parents ask us about how they can manage their child’s behaviour at home. It’s easy for us as OTs to do in a […]
READ MOREHow to Handle the Holidays
Does your child sometimes find it hard to cope during the holidays? In this blog post we share our tips to help make the holidays easier and less stressful for you and your child. Holidays are a great time for many of us, but for some children the lack of structure and change in routine […]
READ MOREDoes My Child Need Help with their Social Skills?
At OTHC, one of the areas we frequently support children in is social participation—and it’s not just limited to children with a formal diagnosis. We see children of all ages and neurotypes who may find it challenging to connect with peers, read social cues, or regulate their emotions during everyday interactions. To meet this need, […]
READ MOREAnxiety in Children
Everybody can feel worried or stressed at various stages. However, how do you know when simple worries or stresses are becoming too much? And how can you recognise it in your child? It is important to highlight that some worry and stress is healthy. They are part of a built in survival instinct within the […]
READ MOREDeveloping Skills and Strategies for Emotional Regulation in children
Emotional regulation refers to an individual’s ability to recognise, process and act upon the emotions that they feel within different situations. Our capability to complete this process reflects the development of a variety of different skills. Emotional regulation is important as it impacts not only our confidence and sense of self but also our ability […]
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