Homework…That seemingly endless battle that seems mostly to inspire anxiety, avoidance, annoyance and loads and loads of frustration. If your children are like so many others who find homework overwhelming, I’m sure you’ve experienced the tears, cries, avoidance strategies and many more frustrating or annoying behaviours that children can be so good at. Although I’m […]

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas and start to the new year. I’m back at work today, trying to frantically catch up on my emails, reports, blogs, and so on, and feeling completely frazzled, but I took a moment to stop and think about what the new year means […]

As we rush around finding gifts for our children this year, I wanted to share one more Christmas gift ideas post, this one about how to choose gifts that would help develop your child’s reading, writing and mathematic skills. There are many options available, obviously, but I will give you a few suggestions here. There […]

Posture is very important for many activities of daily living, e.g. for feeding, writing, games, schoolwork, homework and so on. Not only is it important for physical control of the body, but it can also increase attention and help increase control of eye movements. Poor posture may be caused by a multitude of things, but it is commonly […]