Lisa Chan is on the show today! Lisa is an Occupational Therapist for children. On her Instagram, she gives simple, practical and fun ideas for families. In this episode, we talk about some basic occupational therapy tactics that Lisa uses in her own practice. She gives us some really good ideas about helping children learn to tie their shoes and other things that we can be working on with our kids from a young age. I found this conversation to be really helpful for myself and I hope you do too!
What we talked about:
3:25- Introduction to Lisa and how she got into Occupational Therapy
5:25- What an Occupational Therapist does
9:35- Tips for teaching our kids how to tie their shoes
13:30- Slowing down and allowing children to learn things on their own
16:30- What executive functioning skills are
18:50- Working on executive functioning skills with our children
21:40- The information that she shares on Instagram
23:45- What heavy work is and how we can implement it
29:25- Breath work with our kids
34:05- Focusing on our kid’s strengths versus what they need to improve on
38:20- End of podcast questions
Show notes:
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson
Zach Gets Frustrated by William Mulcahy
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