Help with Sensory Issues

[torontokids]

Whenever I would work with kids with sensory issues you would do as Bright Sparks suggested. Find something that works for them and slowly desensitize them. Difficult for you for sure as winter is now upon us. The expectation would still be the same as the other kids though. One boy I had in my daycare had some major sensory issues. I would start at the beginning of the season (before it got super cold) and he could choose to wear the hat/mitts etc or sit on the stairs and not participate. He was used to wearing his stuff before it got really cold. He would also throw a fit if his mitts got wet or were forgotten and he had to wear his back up ones but he eventually had to get it.

It is much, much harder with your own kids! I'll be the first to admit that. If I am struggling with something my daughter is doing my husband will ask me "what would you do if one of your DCK's was doing that?" Usually works!

[AmandaKDT]

Whenever I would work with kids with sensory issues you would do as Bright Sparks suggested. Find something that works for them and slowly desensitize them. Difficult for you for sure as winter is now upon us. The expectation would still be the same as the other kids though. One boy I had in my daycare had some major sensory issues. I would start at the beginning of the season (before it got super cold) and he could choose to wear the hat/mitts etc or sit on the stairs and not participate. He was used to wearing his stuff before it got really cold. He would also throw a fit if his mitts got wet or were forgotten and he had to wear his back up ones but he eventually had to get it.

It is much, much harder with your own kids! I'll be the first to admit that. If I am struggling with something my daughter is doing my husband will ask me "what would you do if one of your DCK's was doing that?" Usually works!

She was mostly okay with wearing mitts and a hat when the weather wasn't that bad. I never let her have a choice about whether she could wear them or not. But now that it involves it fitting closely around her face and neck she absolutely hates it and she is just wearing me down. I don't give in and it results in some major screaming fits (like this morning where she cried and scratched at her face the whole time we were outside, upsetting the new girl I have and making her cry too). It was just too much for me this morning, hence my need to post about it.

For sure it is harder with your own kids, I often wonder how my little girl would do if she were in someone else's daycare.

I guess I will just have to keep insisting on it, and bear the tantrums. *sigh*