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Hey friends, welcome back. I am so grateful to have all of you here. We are in the holiday season. Whatever holiday you choose to celebrate, gift giving can be part of this time of year.
I'm gonna talk about non screen type of GIFs for our kiddos.We do have some of our kiddos that have a hard time regulating, have a hard time with emotional management. Maybe you have a kiddo with PDA or a kid with OCD. [00:02:00] Helping them find something that they can do that kind of helps them be able to work through some of their emotions, especially if there's an autism mix in there. They sometimes have the hardest time understanding what they feel and being able to work that through, right? The cognitive prefrontal cortex isn't there to help them yet. And so I personally love giving them the idea or the ability to have something like a guitar or drums. I have a kiddo who very much is AuDHD and I got him a drum set andWhen he is really having a hard time regulating himself, he will go in there, he'll put the pads on the drum.
So it's not crazy loud and he will just drum away. And it's actually really [00:03:00] fun to be able to see his skill level increase. And he's doing it in a healthy way. So it's a really great way for him to learn, to teach himself, to regulate. And it's like a co regulator. love giving the gift of music meaning an iTOUCH or a phone that is loaded with music or
some sort of music speaker. I use this a lot with my kiddos who have a lot of executive functioning and it's not a possibility for them to have someone co work with them or body double with them. So that is one thing that I work with them on co working or body doubling and using music to help them.
So it's really nice to be able to have some sort of a speaker that's able to play music or play audio books. Now, for some of you, [00:04:00] you might have say an audible account and you can gift your kid some age appropriate audio books and get them into audio books that they can use while they're around the house or maybe having some quiet time or you can gift them some music and that's nice so they can have some time to themselves. Another thing that is really nice to give to our neurodivergent kids, especially if they have fine motor things, or they complain a lot about say handwriting hurts or typing hurts, or, you know, for a fact that they have fine motor things that are lacking, giving them Things to do such as knitting or crocheting, maybe the adult coloring book or kids coloring book, giving them Play Doh or the silly putty or the [00:05:00] ones that spark sparkle and smell good.
I forget what it's called, but they're it's like a slime putty type of in a tin can. Those ones are really nice too. to be able to give. To our kiddos, but giving them things that they can either do with you as a bonding experience, or say you have more than one sibling, more than one child, they can do it together.
As a sibling bonding type of situation. Quite often I will get my kids craft activities that they can do together. And sometimes I see the most sweetest, gushiest, most loving things as they are doing the crafts together. Whether it's a painting project or, I'll go to Michael's or some sort of craft store and get those one with the foam pads where they can, make a house together or make a Christmas tree together, something like [00:06:00] that.
Where they are able to do a craft project and either you have a parent do it with the child or siblings do it together or they can do it independently. There are a lot of our kiddos who they struggle very much with social and emotional things. They have a really low processing speed when it comes to solving problems socially, but they're kinetic or their ability to solve problem solve or solve puzzles or build things is extremely high.
So I really like getting them the type of kits where they can build things and then they can See it go. So it's a car that they can build and then they can see it go across the kitchen floor or it is something that they build and the lite turns on and the motor kicks in and something goes around.
I love [00:07:00] 3D. puzzles or Lego sets are wonderful things to give our kiddos. There are those Kiwi crate type of things where they can put something together and then they can see it in action. It's very satisfying for them and it builds a lot of confidence and it helps bring out their creative side. I hope that you really enjoyed this holiday version of the Neurotribe and you got some really good ideas for your kiddo or kids and you have a wonderful holiday season. I love you all. Take care. Bye bye.
