Play Assist Rockhampton

19/10/2025

Celebrate the Grandparents in your life this Grandparents Day — Sunday 26 October. 🧓👴

It's a wonderful chance for families to come together and celebrate the special bond between children and their grandparents. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

It’s the perfect time to say thank you for the love, wisdom, and traditions grandparents share across generations. 💖

👉 Looking for fun and meaningful ways to get your kids involved? Visit qld.gov.au/grandparentsday for free downloadable activities, craft ideas and inspiration to help your children show their appreciation.

19/10/2025

Pausing isn’t easy — but it’s powerful. It’s one way our children learn to trust that feeling emotions is safe — theirs and ours.

For practical tools on what you can do when you’re feeling triggered by your children, visit: https://genmindful.com/blogs/mindful-moments/what-can-i-do-when-i-feel-triggered-by-my-kids

19/10/2025

19/10/2025

This is a good tip from .

One effective strategy for supporting executive functioning is to make things visual. When expectations or end goals are hard to visualize, it can be challenging to initiate tasks, especially those that seem difficult or boring. Planning for future events, organizing thoughts for writing, comprehending what we read, following multi-step directions, and remembering schedules or agendas can also become more difficult. By making these elements visual, you can help bridge the gap between intention and action, making it easier to manage these tasks.

19/10/2025

🔬✨ Girls in STEM – Let’s Go! 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍💻👩🏿‍🚀👩🏽‍🔧

Are you a girl aged 12–18 who’s curious about science, tech, engineering or maths? Want to meet other like-minded girls and work alongside real STEM experts to solve a real-world challenge?

Join us for a FREE hands-on STEM program led by the inspiring Sarah Chapman from STEM Changemakers! Sessions are scheduled for Saturdays between 8 November to 6 December 2025, with an end of program celebration on Sunday 7 December 2025.

✅ Spots are limited – register now at stemchangemakers.au

Proudly sponsored by QANTAS Regional Grants and supported by Rockhampton Regional Council Libraries.

19/10/2025

Oral motor exercises: https://www.theottoolbox.com/oral-motor-exercises/

Oral motor problems and feeding: https://www.theottoolbox.com/oral-motor-problems-and-feeding/

18/10/2025

Thu 30 Oct, 4-7pm

15/10/2025

You have loved our content on the brain so far - I am very passionate about children learning about this hence why it is a large feature in our interventions.

So from tomorrow we shall be focusing on The Upstairs and Downstairs Brain - helping you to understand your child's responses and subsequent behaviours.

As usual there will be a toolkit to accompany the series, which will be available from tomorrow - it's a cracker!

WATCH THIS SPACE

15/10/2025

Now Free In Australia

15/10/2025

Let’s talk about the child brain!

Ever felt baffled by a child’s sudden meltdown, defiance, or emotional switch? It’s not bad behaviour — it’s brain behaviour.

This week, we’re diving into The Child Brain Explained — a series that helps you understand why children react the way they do and how you can guide them back to calm.

We’ll start with a simple but powerful idea: the Upstairs and Downstairs Brain — the two parts that shape how children feel, think, and act.

Once you see what’s happening inside the brain, everything starts to make more sense.

Stay tuned — over the coming week we’ll explore how the brain develops, what happens when it feels unsafe, and how connection helps bring it back online.

Understanding the brain is the first step to changing behaviour.

NOW AVAILABLE IN THE RESOURCE STORE - to accompany our series on social media.

The Child Brain Explained: How the Upstairs & Downstairs Brain Shape Behaviour, a Toolkit for Parents & Educators - available for only £3.75 until 3 November 2025

Electronic download available at link in comments or via our Linktree Shop in Bio.

14/10/2025

Wondering how to engage with your kids so they share the good (and not-so-good) details about their school day? Here are some questions you can ask. Tap the link in the first comment for more. ⬇️

14/10/2025

Give a child loose parts, like wood offcuts, fabric scraps, tubes, shells, lids, and you’re giving them more than “stuff.” You’re giving them language. Not words on a page, but the power to declare: I have an idea.

A stick can be a bridge, a sword, or a lever. A cardboard box can be a rocket ship before lunch and a café by dinner. Loose parts whisper permission: change the plan, invent the rules, build what you imagine.

When we hand kids finished toys, we hand them someone else’s idea. When we hand them loose parts, we hand them possibility. A thousand directions their thinking, play, and problem-solving can go.

It’s one of the simplest ways to invite creativity into childhood.