Episode 34: Raising Sensitive, Strong Willed, or Spirited Children: How Occupational Therapy Can Help with Candice Curtis
/Do you ever experience having your child sit on your face? Or your child keeps on chewing that toy? Or who likes to spin on circles and to move constantly?
I do and I know parenting with sensitive, strong-willed, or spirited children can be tough. This can be a cause of stress and anxiety for us.
For this upcoming episode, we are going to discuss a topic that you may find a little bit technical. But, I know for sure can help you understand your child's behavior. And so, I am super excited to be joined with Candice Curtis who is an Occupational Therapist and a Sensory Integration Specialist. She's a beautiful mom of two amazing boys. Her mission is to help parents with children who have sensory processing and executive functioning difficulties. It is her passion to give these parents the right tools to help their kids with sensory needs so that they can enjoy life as a family.
Candice will be guiding us in understanding our child's behavior in this episode and so we'll be learning the following:
What is Sensory Seeking and Sensory Avoidance
Why kids have intense behavior when sensory seeking
How to help our kids with sensory needs
When to determine the need for an evaluation by an Occupational Therapist
If you want to learn more about this topic, follow Candice on her website www.integratefamily.com as well as on Facebook and Instagram.
Listen to her podcast as well The Autism and Sensory Parenting Podcast! You'll love it.
And as we continue to grow a community of parents where we can be of help to each other find more balance in our lives and in our parenting, join me in conversations with my free Facebook Group: Balanced Parenting Community. See you there!