Every year millions of parents and their children head to stores with a list of required supplies for the return back to school. Every year that list includes a composition notebook. Despite the wide range of ages, this book is a standard purchase and in my book the #1 Back-to-School Blunder for Kindergarteners.
Young children that are just learning...
Since March is Women’s History Month and April National Occupational Therapy Month, I would like to take this opportunity to explain my often-misunderstood profession that is more than 90% female. Occupational therapy (OT) is close to 100 years old in the United States. It is a holistic health care profession that aims to promote health by enabling individuals to perform...
Most people do not realize we all have a dominant eye. Typically it is the same as our dominant hand or foot, but not always. Eye dominance helps to aid in eye-hand coordination, handwriting, cutting, dressing, and other skills children need to develop properly. Sometimes a parent may think a child is doing something awkward or wrong when really he...
When new parents start to purchase toys, the importance of safety starts to really set in mostly because of choking hazards. It is common to see warnings on toys that have small parts because typically children under three years old and especially babies are not able to differentiate between edible and inedible objects. Small children like to mouth objects as...
Women are known as natural planners. Many plan their weddings. Many more plan their pregnancies and create a birth plan. Yet, not so many have a plan for playtime.
As a pediatric occupational therapist, I often meet parents that don’t realize how much is involved in play until they notice a developmental delay. After all, playing isn’t something that...