Mary Kostka explains how visual clutter overstimulates kids. Too many toys, crowded walls, and hanging items can disorganize them. She recommends rotating toys, creating empty spaces, and adjusting environments to each child's needs, since some kids need nearly bare rooms while others thrive with more stimulation.
Foreign aloha, sensory heroes. Welcome to day 17. We are going to talk about visual clutter as another environmental trigger for kids. If there's just too too much for them to look at, it can just be so disorganizing. And I think in general, as a society, we just. We just have too much stuff. Too much, too much, too many toys, too many things to choose from. I once saw this video of a K saying he had like, he had one favorite car and he went to a friend's house and they had like a ton of cars. And he's like, I don't know how you can love that many cars because he had his favorites. So I think it's really good to rotate things, put them in a box. They get tired of them, just rotate them through. Just look around your home and, and see, you know, is there. Are there some spaces that are free of just white spaces or just empty spaces where there's just less to look at in the, in the classrooms. Working in the schools for 17 years, I often noticed, like, they have them so visually cluttered. There's no place for the kids to rest their eyes. So there's things hanging from the ceiling. Every square inch of the walls are covered. So all they have is if there's a window, they can kind of like look out the window. But it's really important just to have some space that is kind of empty, that you can just rest your. Your mind and your eyes and just. Just have some open space of some kind. Makes. Makes a very big difference. And it's much more common. It's much more coming to adults as well. So that is a kind of a quick short video today that I hope that. That find that you find that helpful, because it does. It's crazy, like how many little things can make a big difference. And we see it all the time in the clinic because some kids need a. Pretty much an empty room. And so we'll. In our clinic, we can adapt the environment to exactly what they need. So we can have the lighting, how they need it, amount of stuff in it. Some kids, it looks like Disneyland, like crazy obstacle courses. Other, other ones, there's like nothing in the room but the crash pad and a couple things we want them to do. And then they're able to just relax and, and do the activities. So everybody's different. There another variable to pay attention to. Aloha.
