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January 23, 2013

Are We Over-Scheduling Kids? Is It All Work and No Play?

Blog, mental health, Parenting all kids, Special needs children, special needs moms

Over-Scheduling kids may cause stress. Are you over-scheduling your children? Is it all work and no play in your home? Free play vs scheduled activities for children: is there a happy medium? Listen to the wishes of any of your adult friends. What do you hear most often? How they are too busy or too overwhelmed or how life is too hectic and how they are looking forward to a vacation or long weekend to relax and recharge their batteries. Now listen to your kids, tweens or teens. Listen to your special needs child. Do they feel the same way?

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January 17, 2013

Importance of “Play” for Kids, Tweens, and Teens

ADHD, Blog, Parenting all kids, physical activities, Special needs children

Jill Howlett Mays, MS, OTR/L was my guest on The Coffee Klatch Tweetchat I hosted a few years back. We had a marvelous session on some of the topics covered in her book Your Child’s Motor Development Story Understanding and Enhancing Development from Birth to Their First Sport that came out in the Fall of 2011. Our topic of discussion was Importance of “Play” for Kids, Tweens, and Teens. For the first segment of our session I had a Q&A period with Jill and then it was Open Forum so participants could tweet questions or comments.

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