by FamilyConnections | Feb 10, 2022 | Children, Emotions
There are three distinct parts of the brain that are responsible for arousal. These being the reticular activating system, thalamus, and the amygdala. The reticular activating system acts as a gate keeper for sensation. At this level, the sensation is categorised as...
by FamilyConnections | Dec 15, 2021 | Anxiety, Children, Emotions
Anxiety disorders are the second most common childhood mental illness in all children and the most common among girls (AIHW, 2020). Anxiety includes 3 aspects: physiological (rapid heartbeat, stomach aches, sweating) cognitive (thoughts) ...
by FamilyConnections | Nov 25, 2021 | Children, Emotions, Neuroception
Neuroception, as described by Dr Stephen Porges “is a neurobiological process, programmed into our DNA, which helps us evaluate our environment and distinguish whether the situations or people around us are safe, dangerous or life threatening. Neuroception is...
by FamilyConnections | Oct 28, 2021 | Children, Emotions
Often when people think about social skills they look at categories of play (practice play, constructive play, symbolic play and games with rules) and stages of social play (unoccupied play behaviour, onlooker play, solitary independent play, parallel play,...
by FamilyConnections | Apr 20, 2020 | Children, Emotions, Sensory Activities
In our busy reality, everything happens quickly and our children are often expected to follow at the same pace. Everything happens faster and there is more things happening around us. We don’t always have time to check if children understand what is happening around...
