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Spatial Awareness Explained and How to Improve Every day, we move through and interact with our surroundings. In order to accomplish this, spatial awareness is very important. But what exactly is spatial awareness? Spatial awareness refers to your ability to be aware of objects in space and your body’s position in relation to them. So […]

Ways to Help Children Identify and Express their Emotions Often children who act out through biting or hitting or what society calls misbehaving, are often a call for help as the child lacks the ability to communicate their needs and emotions. Teaching your child the skills to express their emotions and communicate their needs is […]

What is emotion regulation and how do we do it? THIS. IS. A. BIG. TOPIC! So I’m going to break it down into a few sections. Lets start with Emotional Regulation in ADULTS. Why? Because I think it’s a good place to start, looking at ourselves. How we handle our emotions, what triggers us, and […]

Understanding Emotional Development: Children & Teenagers Between the ages of two to five years old there will be lots of changes as your child moves away from babyhood to being able to manage a lot more on their own. Your child may be spending a lot more of their time with other people, at play […]

Just like Motor Development, Cognitive Development is another big subject. It can include: Attention span Memory skills Problem solving Spatial development These are some of the topics we are going to touch on as we expand our knowledge on our toddlers cognitive development. I know that a lot of parents feel concern over some of […]

Childhood development experts generally say that a reasonable attention span to expect of a child is two to three minutes per year of their age. That’s the period of time for which a typical child can maintain focus on a given task. Average attention spans work out like this: 2 years old: four to six […]