by Denali Bartolay | Oct 19, 2021 | Anxiety, Back to School, Blog, Child Behaviour, Occupational Therapy
School anxiety after home learning is to be expected. For many students, it has been a long time since they were last in a classroom, and with the uncertainty of lockdowns and the world in general, many children and young people have anxiety about returning to the...
by Denali Bartolay | Oct 6, 2021 | Anxiety, Behaviour Problems, Blog, Child Behaviour
Kids with eco-anxiety are a natural by-product of the many natural disasters and catastrophes that we have seen in the recent past. Children can see that we live in a changing world, and it is scary for them to think about what the earth might look like in the future....
by Debbie Hopper | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog, Child Behaviour, Child Development, Encouragement, Sensory Processing in the Classroom
Teachers, childcare workers and other professionals have long known that some children cannot tolerate experiences that other children don’t even notice. Certain sounds, a noisy environment, some visual elements or even being touched can trigger a meltdown that is...
by Debbie Hopper | Mar 4, 2019 | Anxiety, Blog, Child Behaviour
If you have had a bad start to your day or things have gone wrong during the week, you may be familiar with the symptoms of anxiety creeping up on you. You might feel tight in the chest or experience a panicky feeling. Or you might feel scared, tense or irritated;...
by Debbie Hopper | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog, Child Behaviour, Sensory Processing, Sensory Processing in the Classroom
In years gone by, not much research was available on the ways that environment affects children with special needs. These children were often placed into regular classrooms and expected to conform to the parameters of the majority. Sensory-friendly classrooms were a...
by Debbie Hopper | Feb 19, 2019 | Anxiety, Autism, autism spectrum disorder, Blog, Child Behaviour, Child Development, Encouragement
At Life Skills 4 Kids, we recognize that anxiety has no age limit and kids are not exempt from all the feelings and symptoms that adults experience. Of course, we realize that they are usually unable to articulate exactly what is causing them to feel the way they do,...
