Pediatric Therapy of Colorado

09/15/2025

The Best Vestibular-Friendly Brain Breaks for School!

Get a printable handout of these ideas here > https://www.growinghandsonkids.com/the-best-vestibular-brain-breaks-for-school.html?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

09/15/2025

09/15/2025

When children feel safe and valued, they grow up with the confidence to value and respect others. The way we nurture them today shapes the kind of adults they will become. Safety, love, and belonging are the foundation for raising kind and empathetic humans.

09/15/2025

Our sensory path printables are a popular resource to support regulation and sensory needs. Get a copy here: https://www.theottoolbox.com/fall-sensory-stations/

09/12/2025

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09/11/2025

Powerful Self-Love Affirmations Every Kid Needs to Hear💛

09/11/2025

Absolutely awesome infographic on the eighth - and often misunderstood - sense, interoception, or what's going on inside your body and with your internal organs.
via Neuropositive Living

09/11/2025

Back to school means new planners and getting organized to start the year off right...BUT how do you STAY organized? That's the biggest problem for a lot of us, right? Here are tips: https://www.theottoolbox.com/organization-activities/

And for the kids we work with, here are tips for organization at school: https://www.theottoolbox.com/organization-tips-for-students-organize-kids-school-work

For homework: https://www.theottoolbox.com/how-to-help-disorganized-sensory-kids-organize-homework/

And here are tips for the school-based OT practitioner...you know who you are...https://www.theottoolbox.com/school-based-ot-and-getting-organized

09/10/2025

09/09/2025

So often, we feel the urge to quiet our children’s emotions — to hush the crying, end the tantrum, or smooth over the frustration. But emotions aren’t problems to fix; they’re signals to understand.

Our children don’t need silence imposed on their feelings. They need guidance in making sense of them. They need us to show them that it’s safe to feel deeply — and that those big feelings can be carried without losing control.

That’s why our role isn’t to erase the storm but to help them weather it: to validate what rages inside while holding steady boundaries outside. “Your feelings are real. Your actions still have limits.”

It’s in that tension — empathy and boundary, compassion and containment — that children learn the real lesson: emotions don’t make you broken, and being human isn’t something to be fixed.

And so, they don’t just grow regulated. They grow whole. ❤️

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09/09/2025

Some days you move mountains ⛰️ and some days you move from the bed to the couch. 🛋️

Both are important. Self-care and mental health are both mountains of their own. As therapy providers, we offer tools and strategies to support our clients.

But therapy professionals are no strangers to the need to have a self care plan in place. Occupational therapists, OTAs, speech therapists, and physical therapists, PTAs, are long-time sufferers of therapy burnout.

Take a look at the caseload requirements, productivity standards, and unpaid tasks that many therapists need to balance. But add in the new challenges with serving clients with increased productivity requirements, in many cases and self care for health professionals is very much-needed now more than ever.

The thing is that as occupational therapy providers, we KNOW the need for balance. The occupational balance of work/play/rest is very much a service to ourselves and a fine line that must be honored. We recognize the need to set realistic expectations for ourselves, all while having to deal with the unrealistic expectations of the job.

Check out our resource on self care for therapy professionals: https://www.theottoolbox.com/self-care-strategies-for-therapists/