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How to Stay Calm When Your Child is Yelling | Want to know how to stay calm as a parent, even when your children are out of control? We’re sharing 9 tips for moms and dads who want to know how to be more patient, calm, and present with their kids. Whether your child is just misbehaving, or struggles with developmental delays like ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, and/or ODD, these behavior management tips will help!

Special Needs Parenting: How to Stay Calm When Your Child is Yelling

Autism and School Anxiety | 13 tips and coping skills to help kids with Asperger syndrome, autism, and sensory processing disorder handle feelings of anxiety and overwhelm in the classroom (and beyond). We’ve included tips for teaching students with autism as well as our favorite products and ideas to help parents empower their anxious kids and teach appropriate self-regulation at school and at home.

Autism and School Anxiety: 13 Tips to Help ASD Kids Cope in the Classroom

Anxiety in Children | Everything you need to know about the signs and symptoms of childhood anxiety (stomachaches, lack of sleep, school anxiety, etc.), the best parenting tips for mom and dad, and 7 coping skills and activities for kids with big worries. #anxiety #mentalhealth #kidstherapy #playtherapy

Anxiety in Children: 15 Tips and Coping Strategies to Teach Self-Regulation

Executive Functioning Activities for Kids | If you’re looking for tips, activities, and games to help develop your child’s working memory, impulse control, problem solving, time management, organization, social, and self-control skills, we’re sharing 17 tips and activities to help support your child at home. Perfect for kids with learning disabilities like ADHD, these ideas will help your child be successful at school and beyond!

Practice That Feels Like Play: 9 Executive Functioning Activities for Kids

16 Hand Eye Coordination Activities for Kids | If your child struggles with hand eye coordination, proprioception, and/or gross motor skills, this collection of hand eye exercises and activities provides fabulous learning opportunities for children that are also incredibly fun! Perfect for toddlers, kindergarteners, and school-aged kids, these ideas will help develop practical life skills.

Practice that Feels Like Play: 16 Activities that Improve Hand Eye Coordination

9 Parenting Tips for Overwhelmed Autism Moms | Parents of autistic children deal with tremendous stress. From anticipating and managing autistic meltdowns and teaching self-regulation, to organizing occupational therapy, behavioral therapy and IEP meetings, and everything in between, life for mothers (and families) of kids with autism can be anxiety-provoking, which is why we’re sharing 9 of our best tips to beat parental burnout!

How to Cope: 9 Parenting Tips for Overwhelmed Autism Moms

Oral Motor Activities for Kids | If your child has autism and/or sensory processing disorder & you’re looking for oral sensory activities you can do at home, in the classroom & as part of speech therapy, we’ve got 16 fun activities for toddlers, kids in preschool & kindergarten & beyond! These activities help with a variety of challenges like picky eating and inappropriate chewing, sucking & biting.

The Oral Sensory System: 16 Oral Motor Activities for Kids

Essential Oils for Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder | If you’re looking for natural remedies for autism to help alleviate symptoms of stress, anxiety, insomnia, anger, aggression, lack of focus, ADHD, etc., we’re sharing our favorite single oils you can use to create your own recipes and blends, as well as our recommended doTERRA and Young Living essential oil blends for kids.

Beginners Guide to Essential Oils for Autism and Sensory Processing

How to Discipline an Autistic Child | Is it the autism or just bad behavior? It’s hard to know for sure, but if you struggle with autism and discipline, we’re sharing 13 practical tips and behavioral strategies you can start implementing at home and in the classroom TODAY to help you child develop appropriate behavior management strategies and self-control techniques in a fun, nonthreatening way.

How to Discipline an Autistic Child: 13 Tips for Parents

30 Play Therapy Activities for Kids | 30 simple therapeutic activities for children you can use in a counseling setting or at home to help a child express their emotions surrounding a trauma or ongoing feelings of anxiety. Perfect for toddlers, kids in preschool, school-aged kids, for tweens and teens, and kids with autism, ADHD, and anxiety, these activities offer a great way to teach healthy anger management and coping skills.

Play Therapy Techniques: 30 Therapeutic Activities for Children

Breathing Techniques for Anxiety in Children | If you’re looking for simple relaxation techniques and breathing exercises for kids that work at home and in the classroom, we’ve got 10 ideas to help. These calming activities are perfect for anxiety and stress as well as anger management, and help teach healthy coping skills so kids can calm down on their own when big emotions strike.

Breathing Techniques for Anxiety: 10 Calming Activities for Kids

20 Gross Motor Activities for Kids | Whether you’re looking for fun games, exercises, or an obstacle course to help develop your child’s large muscles, or need more specific ideas for kids with autism and other special needs as part of their occupational therapy program, these indoor and outdoor ideas can be re-created with simple things like painters tape, chalk, pillows, balloons, and an exercise ball.

Practice that Feels Like Play: 20 Gross Motor Activities for Kids

Gluten Free Casein Free Diet for Autism | The GFCF diet is one of many alternative autism treatments, and some parents see an improvement in autism behaviors when they put their child on a gluten free and dairy free diet. We’re sharing our best beginner tips for a smooth transition to the diet as well as 20 of our favorite kid-approved GFCF recipes to help get you started.

Gluten Free Casein Free Diet for Autism: 29 Tips & Recipes for Parents

DIY Good Behavior Chart for Kids | Looking for a reward system to support your positive reinforcement efforts with children either at home or at school? Perfect for parents trying to control rambunctious boys, teachers trying to enforce classroom rules, and moms who desperately want their morning routines to run smoother, these ideas also work well with special needs kids with autism, ADHD, etc.

Positive Parenting: DIY Good Behavior Chart for Young Kids

21 Sensory Break Activities for Kids | Also known as ‘brain breaks’ & ‘movement breaks’, these sensory breaks for kids are perfect to help students with ADD, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, autism & other developmental delays calm down & focus in the classroom. Perfect for teachers & parents, these fun ideas also develop gross motor skills, improve self-regulation & help with behavior management in the classroom.

Sensory Integration at School: 21 Sensory Break Activities for Kids

11 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child | The internet is full of all the things you should never say to an anxious child as well as great coping skills and tips about children and anxiety, but what parents really need is a list of things to say to an anxious child when big emotions take over. We're sharing 11 ideas and our favorite anxiety books for kids!

How to Help Kids with Anxiety: 11 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child

56 Occupational Therapy Activities for Kids | Whether your child has sensory processing challenges, struggles with fine motor, gross motor, and/or visual motor skills, needs help with handwriting, or needs core strengthening exercises, we have 56 fun learning activities that are perfect for kids with developmental delays like autism and sensory processing disorder. These pediatric OT ideas will not disappoint!

Learning Through Play: 56 Occupational Therapy Activities and Tips for Kids

17 Zones of Regulation Activities | Trying to teach self-regulation in the classroom or at home? These ideas, lesson plans, worksheets, games, and activities teach kids self-control and self-discipline while also helping them practice their social skills. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school, NT kids and children with autism and other special needs, these activities are great for parents and teachers alike!

Self-Regulation in the Classroom: 17 Zones of Regulation Activities

30+ Activities for Kids with Autism | We’ve got over 30 fun ideas, games, and activities to help develop your child’s social skills, speech and communication skills, and gross and fine motor skills, as well as provide him a way to release physical energy and find ways to calm down and self-regulate. Perfect for bad weather days, we’ve included worksheets, task boxes, and art projects!

30 Indoor Activities for Kids with Autism for Bad Weather Days!

Transition Strategies for Kids with Autism | Whether you’re a parent looking for transition strategies to help your child with autism cope with day-to-day tasks more easily or a teacher looking for tips and tricks to make classroom transitions easier, we’ve got 10 brilliant ideas to get you started!

Transition Strategies for Kids with Autism: 10 Tips that Work!

Traveling with an Autistic Child | Whether you’re flying with an autistic child, or embarking on a long car ride with an autistic child, we have 7 helpful travel tips to make the experience as easy as possible. From picking a destination and using visual schedules to knowing what to pack and the best travel toys for kids, we’ve got everything you need for a smooth vacation!

Traveling with an Autistic Child: 7 Helpful Travel Tips for Parents