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Why Your Discipline Often Backfires
...these questions: What is the “attention payoff” you are giving your child in a persistent behavior challenge you are facing? Is there a valid need (i.e. physical/sensory) that may also...
From Nursing to Coaching: Walking with Parents in Intense Times
...Right after I completed the coaching program, Connected Families posted a part-time parent coach position with a specific focus on families with young kids and sensory needs. That seemed too...
Cross-Generation
...helping children. Jim worked in youth ministry leadership beginning in 1985, and Lynne focused her Occupational Therapy efforts on young people’s sensory needs beginning in 1987. As Lynne and Jim...
3 Steps to Prepare Kids for Holiday Family Gatherings
...behavior challenges and “what’s going on inside your child” that might be driving those behaviors. 1. Overstimulation and Sensory Overload What it looks like: Your child becomes hyperactive, silly, or...
Grace & Truth for Moms
...loads of experience from raising her spirited crew of three. Additionally, she has over 25 years of experience as a pediatric occupational therapist specializing in kids with sensory processing disorders...
Connected Families is Building Community in EXTENDED FAMILIES
...beginning of us learning about sensory processing. We were in the midst of a big transition and her wisdom was invaluable at that time and since. Lynne also coached us...
Our Favorite Books and Parenting Resources
...Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) – Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR CORRECT: Resources to learn to correct kids well These books are to help you learn to be an...
Help! My Child Keeps Unbuckling and the Kids are Spitting! | Ep. 69
...discover: The Connected Families Framework, and the power of asking wise questions to impart wisdom (instead of just managing behavior) How to search for the underlying issues (such as sensory)...
How to Stop Attention-Seeking Behavior Before It Starts
...skin is your body’s largest organ, and when its sensory receptors are stimulated, the hormone oxytocin (the one that makes us feel warmly connected) is released. At the same time,...
7 Peaceful, Powerful Ways to Connect with an Angry Child
...Express empathy in strong, simple sentences: “You love that bike!” “It’s so frustrating when something you really like gets broken!” “I feel that way too sometimes.” Introduce a different sensory...