Simone Davies

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 049a: Simone Davies on Setting Up Your Home to Support Your Child's Growth · 21 Oct 2022 podcast

Yeah.

Also movement is great.

If a child's dysregulated and they get involved with like scrubbing a table, it can actually help them calm down for kids who like need movement to do that.

So if you just invent a table scrubbing activity where there's a bar of soap and a brush and you wet the brush and you get them to clean the kitchen table, it can sometimes like, yeah, help them decompress if they're really out of control.

Yeah, it's definitely difficult for those kids to organize themselves.

And so again, we need to keep it as simple as possible, that their homework always gets unpacked and put in exactly the same place, that their work area is actually clutter-free without distractions lying around.

Because if they see the iPad sitting on their desk before you know it, they might be distracted to do something like that.

So really to remove everything else that they don't need and to have at the ready what they do need.

I like to also have like a little set of drawers where they can access a pencil or some paper, a stapler, scissors, depending of course on their age, so that if they need something, they don't have to walk to the other side of the house and wonder where it might be.

I remember just having a cup of tea at a friend's house and our kids were playing and they wanted to make some comic book and they kept running into the thing saying, mom, where's sticky tape?

And then she'd have to ruffle through like hundreds of drawers to find some sticky tape.

And so if this isn't a completely, you know, there's no differently white kids here, but it's not teaching kids to take care of stuff themselves.

So just taking a little bit of time to set up the work area to be very inviting, distraction free.

everything at the ready and with the things always in the same place that could really help a child learn that system and then be more productive every day, do it the same every day.

Because again, the less work that brain has to do to how do we do this again?

You know, it really just helps their executive function a lot.

yeah

And the one thing that we haven't really talked about is to make the spaces really beautiful and attractive because then it's more conducive to, you know, being a place that they want to hang out and that they actually want to do their homework or something like that.

So that can also happen in their bedroom.

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