Your Ultimate Survival Guide to a Sensory Friendly Holiday Season
Two down! How many to go? Halloween and Thanksgiving were here with their sweets, pies, costumes, decorations, visitors, expectations,...
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Matt Sloan
- Oct 5, 2021
- 7 min
How to Help With Bed Time and Sleep
Ahh bed time. The calming sounds of “brush your teeth!”, “get your pajamas on!”, “Get out of the bath!”, “Get your foot out of your...
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Matt Sloan
- Jul 27, 2021
- 8 min
Fidgeting and Focus: What are Fidgets and How to Use Them.
“Stop squirming”! Sit down”! “Get that pen out of your mouth”! “Enough of the tapping”! Everybody knows this kid. Everybody knows this...
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Matt Sloan
- May 28, 2021
- 6 min
Improve Kids Fine Motor Skills Part III: Core Strength
It’s All About That Base Welcome to the third and final part of improving fine motor of our fine motor series. We’ve made it to the end!...
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Matt Sloan
- Apr 27, 2021
- 9 min
Improve Kids Fine Motor Skills Part II: Strong Arms!
Part II: 13 WAYS TO IMPROVE JOINT STABILITY IN THE ARM TO IMPROVE FINE MOTOR. Last month we talked about improving fine motor by...
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Matt Sloan
- Mar 2, 2021
- 7 min
13 SIMPLE HAND STRENGTHENING ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE FINE MOTOR SKILLS FOR KIDS. Part 1.
Fine motor. I hated doing fine motor stuff as a kid. I wasn’t very good at it and my hands always hurt. My handwriting was sloppy, I...
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Matt Sloan
- Jan 19, 2021
- 7 min
Making a Calm Down Space in your Home
Making a calming space in your house sounds relatively simple but there are a few things to consider when setting one up for your kiddo....
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Matt Sloan
- Sep 27, 2020
- 1 min
Ball Beats! Improve Coordination With a Ball
Work on coordination with just a ball! There are a million and one exercises and activities you can come up with using a ball. Here are...
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Matt Sloan
- Sep 24, 2020
- 1 min
Body Beats! Improve Coordination in Kids
Today's sensory health tip is Body Beats! Doing activities like mirroring and crossing midline can help with building bilateral awareness...
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Matt Sloan
- May 9, 2020
- 1 min
For The Love Of Mike, Will You Please Get To Work! Ways to Help Kids With Focus and Learning
During this pandemic it's so much fun to corral my kids to get them to do school work. Or chores. Or clean up their crap. Sometimes I'd...
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Matt Sloan
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Coordinate Your Parts! Fun Ways for Kids to Improve Coordination
Today on Sensory Fitness Live, Reggie and I talked about activities to focus on to help with coordination. Doing coordination activities...
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Matt Sloan
- Apr 29, 2020
- 1 min
Ways to Help With Tactile Sensitivities
Today on Sensory Fitness Live, Willy and I talk about some activities to do at home that revolve around the tactile system. Come watch...
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Matt Sloan
- Apr 12, 2020
- 4 min
Home School, Teddy Roosevelt, and George Carlin
So let me start off by stating that my wife is a principal of an elementary school. I was also a teacher for 13 years and worked in...
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Matt Sloan
- Mar 26, 2020
- 5 min
Why wont my kid shut up?
Who's ready for school to start again? I am raising my hand, feel free to do so. We are on week 2 of social distancing and although we...
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Matt Sloan
- Dec 6, 2019
- 9 min
Postural Stability. This word you keep saying, I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Sit down! Stop squirming! Where are you going? Get off me! Keep walking! Slow down! Get off the floor!" Do any of these sound familiar?...
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Matt Sloan
- Nov 15, 2019
- 6 min
Why is my kid flopping all over the soccer field?
All the kids are lined up on the chalk line ready for jumping jacks and one kid lays in a heap at the end of the line. Most of the kids...
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Matt Sloan
- Nov 12, 2019
- 4 min
Why is my kid drawing on himself all the time!?
As soon as the markers are out he's got a mustache, a pirate patch, circles on his palms, a smiley face on his belly, and a dragon down...
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