Calming Sensory Activities for Visually Seeking Children

by Cara | Mar 5, 2018 | Special Needs & Disability

Sensory activities, and providing a varied sensory diet is one of my favorite ways to reduce children’s stress, minimize meltdowns, promote learning, and increase household happiness.  Here we are going to take a look at how visual stimulation calms down...

Calming Sensory Activities for Visually Avoidant Children

by Cara | Mar 2, 2018 | Special Needs & Disability

Sensory activities, and providing a varied sensory diet is one of my favorite ways to reduce children’s stress, minimize meltdowns, promote learning, and increase household happiness.  Below we will talk about how to minimize overwhelm, or provide needed...

Natural Mattresses We Use for Passive Toxin Reduction

by Cara | Feb 24, 2018 | natural health, parenting, personal care, Pregnancy and Babies

What if I told you there was a change you could make that greatly reduces the toxins that your children inhale for 12 hours a day that they would never complain about, that you wouldn’t have to do anything different in your day-to-day life, and it doesn’t...

Why Sensory Integration May Be Causing Your Child’s Meltdowns

by Cara | Feb 5, 2018 | Special Needs & Disability

  While trying to get on top of meltdowns that happened every time we had errand day, I was thrust into the sensory integration regulation world with my child.  Sensory issues are real and they are not caused by poor parenting, a strong will, or lack of exposure...

Review: Time4Learning Online Homeschool Program

by Cara | Oct 25, 2017 | parenting

This software makes it possible for me to homeschool my child.  That’s the quick answer.  I’ve done a mix of public, home, and private schools for my kids, based on what our whole family’s needs, and their individual needs, are at the time. Why we...

Special Needs Mamas, This is Why You Need Self Care

by Cara | Oct 4, 2017 | Special Needs & Disability

You have a child with special needs.  You give and give and give, and somewhere along the way you start to lose yourself.  This is common for all moms, the infant years are intense.  But you, mama, you can’t take a part time job and put your child in part time...