Welcome to the 30 Day "Get Sensory Confident" Challenge!

Foreign welcome to the 30 day get sensory confident Challenge. I'm so excited that you're here and from here on out, I am calling you a sensory hero. Because just the fact that you're here and you're learning and trying to understand your child and how to help them, in my book that means you're a sensory hero and you will be a hero to your child as you learn all of these different things. And so the main goal is to help you increase your confidence so that you can help your sensational child. And the other goal is for you to not feel alone. And so we'll talk about that in a few minutes. But this is a community of, of parents that can help each other as well. So I'm going to walk you through the challenge and kind basically how this all works and then give you a little bit more info. So basically the first thing you'll notice is it says, do you want this, the starter kit? Depending on when you watch this, it might say coming soon or it might give you a link to do that is for your convenience. We've put together some kits that have a lot of the things that are mentioned in here in it, but I'm also going to have how you can easily get them on, on Amazon. But a lot of people have asked us, can you just, you know, put something together and make it easy for us? And so we've done that. We're working on it. Depending when you watch this, I'm very close. So on week one, the way this works is every day is 15 minutes and you'll have a video and you might have a handout or something to look at, but you have an actionable item to just kind of reinforce your learning, where you might be asked a question and then you answer it and it'll get emailed to you and then you only need 15 minutes a day for the 30 days. If you want to just binge watch, you have time and you want to watch a bunch at one time, go for it. If you need a break in between, you know, this is for you to do at your own pace. But if you can just commit to the idea that you're going to put in 15 minutes every day for 30 days, then you'll get through it without even hardly trying. So that is how it works. So the first week is all about just kind of a quick start, some things to help you get going. The first part is about meltdowns and tantrums. There's a really big difference between the two and how you handle them. So it's a really good place to start so you'll know how to respond to your child. And then there's just some different things that we're going to talk about on ways to. Some just quick, quick tools on how you can stay calm and help them stay calm. We're going to go over what are some really common root causes. I see. You know, we've helped thousands of kids, and I would say 80% of them have a very similar profile. So we're going to talk about what a lot of the root causes are and why it's not your fault. Most of the parents come to us, they're so relieved because they realize it's not their fault. Like, it. It's the child and their development and their nervous system and certain little building blocks haven't matured yet. And. And it's. It's just such a. It's such a relief, honestly. So I'm going to share with you what the most common causes are and then going to talk in general about the 3C method. And that is actually what week two, three and four are. And I'll get to that in a minute. But we're also going to talk about when no is a big trigger because it is for most of our kids because they have a strong sense of needing to be in control. So we have some tips and tricks for you with that. So the three Cs are calm yourself, calm the environment, and calm the child. So that is going to be weeks two, three, and four. And so in calming yourself, this is a piece that often gets missed. And honestly, I'm just, like, really excited for this app because even the parents that are coming to us, we do a ton of education in the sessions, but I don't feel like we get to dig into this piece as much as I would like to because we're, you know, focused so much on the child. But the parents need to know their own sensory systems. And so we'll have a quiz you can kind of think about, like, what. What do I seek? What do I avoid? It's really common to have a mismatch where, you know, like, say a mom is auditory sensitive and tactically sensitive and their child's, like, all over them and really loud, you know, so just understanding your own sensory system and understanding your child's and why they're doing what they're doing. And then there's a lot of things you can do to. To make it work so it's not so stressful. We're going to talk a lot about how you can bring yourself down to be calm because there's, there's mirror neurons and so we want them to mirror you being calmer versus you mirroring them and getting more stressed. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about some of the zones of self regulation. Have you make your own toolbox so that you have your go tos to help you. And I talked about the mismatch. So the, the week three, the calming the environment. This is going to be all about really common triggers. So lighting and sounds and visual clutter and textures and scents and how to create a safe space. You can avoid a lot just with those first two things having that awareness. And then we're going to talk about tools to calm your child. And these are our go tos. These are the things that work with most of the kids. So there's just a variety of tools. There's the sensory brush, galaxy light body sock bubbles, Bubble mountain, different types of headphones, how to use them, when to use them, all of that. One of the things the parents, when we've surveyed them as we were asking them like what things help them and what we should put in this, in this app and in our kit over and over and over they wanted to know the why. They wanted to hear more information on the, on why does this work, you know, what is happening in their body. And so this app's going to be able to dig in a little bit more and be able to help you understand the wise. So yeah, we went and how to use weighted blankets, compression clothing, weighted vests, all of that good stuff. And then we'll wrap it up with the best ways to play. There's some play types of play that are really regulating for kids and certain types of play that are very disregulating. So we're going to go through that. And then I have a bunch of bonus things. I have what are the best sports and activities. I'm going to go into a little more depth on the vestibular and proprioceptive system so you understand that a little bit better. And, and that's our position sense and our sense of movement and the five most common primitive reflexes which are some of the root causes that we see a lot and tips and tricks for being out and about. And so like I said, you can go at your own pace. It's basically 15 minutes for each lesson. And, and one of the things that is really exciting to me is to create a community of all you parents that so you can support each other and not feel so alone. One of the things that kept coming back to me and feedback is that people really didn't want to necessarily do it like on a social media group. They wanted more privacy, especially our 2E, our 2E parents. So the kids that are super bright and they're probably gonna, you know, go off to do amazing things and go to Harvard or something, they. They don't. They're. They're. They're laying really low. They don't want anybody to have even a chance of finding out that their child is struggling. So it's been a request to have, like, a more private way to communicate. And that's one of the reasons I chose this platform, because it has a members area, so I can have different channels and, you know, topic areas. You all can, like, message and reply back and forth. There may still be a desire for me to have a private Facebook group for people in addition to that. And we'll just see what you guys think because, you know, it's a little limited. It's just messaging where in a Facebook group I can have, you know, I can. I can post more things and videos and stuff like that. So it'll be up to you guys. You guys will let me know what works best for you. But for starters, be sure to get into the membership area and make your profile and introduce yourself and all that good stuff. So I'm just kind of checking my list. I think I covered everything. I think I talked about the fact that I'm, you know, we've been. We've been going treating our sensory kids, thousands of them, for 16 years now. And I have a. I recently set a really. They call it a bhag, a big hairy, audacious goal. I've decided to put a number on it that I want to help 100,000 kids with sensory processing disorder throughout the country in the next five years. So by 2029, when Ohana turns 21, and I can do it through this app because that's, you know, infinite potential. So if you know another family that is struggling and you finding this helpful, please tell them about it. And, and, you know, the more. More people that we can support and help, the better. So I am gonna hop off. Welcome again, and I will see you in day one.