Nature's Path Occupational Therapy, 13955 Woodlake Road, Elbert, CO (2025)

11/10/2025

🎄A Christmas reminder that relationship and connection are what children truly value.

📖Not that you need the research to believe me, but ya’ll know I am a research nerd so here you go…

📚In a study by Izzo et al., 2024

➡️The study asked children aged 6-13 and their parents to describe “happy moments” together. The themes that emerged: shared activities, affection, play, emotional interaction — while “material gifts” was a less frequent theme in children’s happiest moments. ❤️

➡️Take Away=relational/affectional interactions (rather than objects) are what children recall as “happy moments” and thus likely to form memories.

➡️Implication: When you foster relational interactions (parent-child shared time, emotion) you’re more likely creating the kind of moments children will remember.

🎄Let’s make this a Christmas about relationship and connection ❤️

10/30/2025

📚I am confident that teaching your children to read is more about forging patience in us parents than it is about them actually learning to read 🤣

➡️If you feel like your child will never learn to read, they will. Tune out the parents who say “Oh my child taught themselves to read,” and tune into your child’s adorable cuteness.

🧠The cognitive load of learning to read is next level. Give them time, give them patience, give them advocacy if school is pushing them beyond their abilities. Reading is developmental, a child will not read until they are developmentally ready ❤️

10/22/2025

🍂Once I surrendered to the fact that even the simplest of moments can be therapeutic, my therapeutic lense was revolutionized.

🍁I made a commitment that our OT sessions aren’t a list of the therapeutic activities that I need to check off. OT sessions are sacred sessions. A space where I need to be still and allow the Lord to work and for Him to lead and guide me in the next best step. For him to open my eyes to see these children as He sees them.

🍂Also, no offense to adults, but if every second of my day was filled with conversations with children, I wouldn’t be mad about it. The ever so subtle constant chatter in this video literally makes my heart so happy. The therapeutic value in letting a child speak, uninterrupted, airing out their thoughts, can’t be matched ❤️

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