Home Strategies for Under 5yos - Part 2

✔  Why it's important to teach and understand emotions
✔  Why it's important to teach and understand emotional regulation and sensory regulation
✔  Understanding our own sensory profile
✔  Understanding our kids' sensory profiles
✔  Explosive meltdowns vs shutdowns
✔  Tools & strategies to calm down and therefore stay calm and regulated

Managing Meltdowns:
✔  Don’t be telling someone that’s not calm to calm down - it won’t end well ✔  Limit talking, questions, demands till another time of day when they are better regulated
✔  Someone in meltdown mode - silent or explosive - is not capable of reasoning or processing. They are maxed out and you talking will be adding to their overwhelm not helping
✔  Meltdowns - not the time for discussions about behaviour or for punishing/discipline - save talking through for later (often hours later)
✔  Learn strategies that work with you & each child (they’ll be different) and have them ready to go when a meltdown happens - meltdowns aren’t the time to test (unless working with a new child)
✔  Ultimately we want our kids to take control & responsibility for staying regulated - teach them rather than always doing it for them (talk through the process - this can take years)
✔  Pick your battles - if your kid keeps calm/regulated by having 4 weetbix at 5pm right before dinner… What are you going to do? What’s more important?

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• Why it's important to teach and understand emotions
• Why it's important to teach and understand emotional regulation and sensory regulation
• Understanding our own sensory profile
• Understanding our kids' sensory profiles
• Explosive meltdowns vs shutdowns
• Tools & strategies to get going and therefore stay calm and regulated

Little Wooden Toybox Pty Ltd
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au
https://www.trainingbites.com.au

Any requests or feedback?
Email Tash: tashkritter@gmail.com

What Skills are involved in everyday Routines?

• executive functioning skills
• time management
• working memory
• fine motor skills
• gross motor skills 
• motor planning
• understanding context
• problem solving 

Visual schedules 

• Reduce the overwhelm
• Reduce the tears, frustrations and refusal to complete tasks
• And set them up to succeed
• Reduces nagging
• Helps keep you sane
• Helps them take responsibility

Visual Aids can include

• Do do lists/picture strips - for the day
• Do do lists/picture strips - for an individual task 
• Now/Then - transitions
• Family Planners
• Monthly/Weekly/Daily Planners
• Family rules/expectation
• Classroom rules/expectations

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Ever wondered why your kid keeps crashing into you, climbing all over you are wanting loads of hugs?!

Proprioception (or movement breaks) helps us to 
✔ understand our position in the space around us
✔ calm down
✔ get going

Movement breaks are a great way to:
✔ organise the brain
✔ organise sensory input
✔ improve attention
✔ improve body awareness
✔ decrease defensiveness

Movement breaks include:
✔ Running
✔ Jumping
✔ Climbing
✔ Lifting
✔ Crashing
✔ Hugging
✔ Pushing
✔ Pulling

Emotional Regulation (with Proprioception) Packs: https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au/products/training-bundle-emotional-and-sensory-regulation

Little Wooden Toybox Pty Ltd
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au
https://www.trainingbites.com.au

Any requests or feedback?
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Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family

✔ get organised

✔ stay calm

✔ enjoy life

✔ manage behaviours

✔ emotional regulation

✔ sensory regulation

Today we cover:

✔ fidgets, wobble chairs etc that allow us to focus

✔ iPads - setting up boundaries & family rules and values

✔ meals - healthy relationships with food, this may look different and that's ok

RESOURCES: https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au/collections/emotions-routines

Little Wooden Toybox Pty Ltd
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au
https://www.trainingbites.com.au

Any requests or feedback?
Email Tash: tashkritter@gmail.com

Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family

✔ get organised

✔ stay calm

✔ enjoy life

✔ manage behaviours

✔ emotional regulation

✔ sensory regulation

Today we cover:

✔ routines - why we uses them & why they work

✔ labels & getting organised

✔ transitions - timers & Now/Next visual schedules

✔ quiet safe spaces to calm down

✔ spaces for whole body movement to burn energy

✔ co-regulation - finding the balance between your sanity and their happiness

✔ sleep - choosing sleep over scrolling socials

RESOURCES: https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au/collections/emotions-routines

Little Wooden Toybox Pty Ltd
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au
https://www.trainingbites.com.au

Any requests or feedback?
Email Tash: tashkritter@gmail.com

Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family

✔ get organised

✔ stay calm

✔ enjoy life

✔ manage behaviours

✔ emotional regulation

✔ sensory regulation

Today we cover:

✔ leads - controversial - hear me out!

✔ resting together - keeping your sanity

✔ stimming

✔ iPads - controversial - hear me out!

✔ meals - what are we teaching them about their relationship with food

RESOURCES 
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au/collections/emotions-routines

Little Wooden Toybox Pty Ltd
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au
https://www.trainingbites.com.au

Any requests or feedback?
Email Tash: tashkritter@gmail.com

Practical steps, tools and strategies to help you and your family

✔  get organised

✔  stay calm

✔  enjoy life

✔  manage behaviours

✔  emotional regulation

✔  sensory regulation

Today we cover:

✔  routines - why we uses them & why they work

✔  labels & getting organised

✔  transitions - timers & Now/Next visual schedules

✔  quiet safe spaces to calm down

✔  spaces for whole body movement to burn energy

✔  co-regulation - finding the balance between your sanity and their happiness

✔  sleep - or lack of... and instead finding joy in the little things where possible

ROUTINES RESOURCES: https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au/collections/planners

Little Wooden Toybox Pty Ltd
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au
https://www.trainingbites.com.au

Any requests or feedback?
Email Tash: tashkritter@gmail.com

Join me as I talk about day-to-day life with Autism; the sucky bits and the wins, plus tips for enjoying life despite the challenges 👇 

✔   All behaviour is a form of communication

✔   What if we chose to step back and look at things differently? 

✔   What are behaviours communicating? Lining things up, rocking, flapping, stimming, intense focus, covering ears or eyes, hiding, running, tippy toes, meltdowns, being alone/parallel play

✔   Emotional overwhelm

✔   Sensory overwhelm

✔   Anxiety/Excitement

✔   Fight/flight response

✔   Control and order in a chaotic world

Want to know more? Ask me 👇 I'd love ideas for future podcast topics 😊😊😊

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Join me as I talk about day-to-day life with Autism; the sucky bits and the wins, plus tips for enjoying life despite the challenges 👇 

✔   What is co regulation?

✔ Take the time to learn your sensory profile

✔   In understanding your sensory profile, you will build more empathy for what your child is experiencing

✔   Sensory inputs impact emotional regulation which impact our behaviour

✔   Behaviour similar to an iceberg - the behaviour is the bit you can see but there so much going on that you may not be able to see

✔   Invite your child to join your calm, instead of you joining their chaos

✔   Pick your battles, decide where you are will to compromise, decide what is important to you and your family

Either we spend time meeting children's emotional needs by filling their cup with love or we spend time dealing with the behaviours from their unmet needs... either way we spend time - Pam Lee

Want to know more? Ask me 👇 I'd love ideas for future podcast topics 😊😊😊

Little Wooden Toybox Pty Ltd
https://www.littlewoodentoybox.com.au
https://www.trainingbites.com.au

Any requests or feedback?
Email Tash: tashkritter@gmail.com