Tania van Zyl Occupational Therapy

10/08/2021

25/06/2021

The next workshop dates are now available! Please contact me to book your daughter for this valuable course. We are also privileged to have Mariette from Essential Body Works- Mobile beauty salon who will teach the girls the importance of a good facial care routine will also give them an opportunity to practice!
Contact me or whatsapp me at 0832308497

20/05/2021

Looking for a solution to help your tween with the changes she experiences as she enters adolescence? Let her join our 2 day workshop!

The 2 day tween workshop aims to assist tween girls with the transition from child to teenager. The workshop consists of 5 sessions that is presented over two afternoons (Friday and Saturday) where girls will have the opportunity to address issues with anxiety, social interaction, group pressure, body image and self esteem.

It is a safe environment, consisting of small groups (maximum 10 group members) where interactive learning will be provided.

All girls will benefit from these sessions.

Please contact me for more information

Tania van Zyl
083 230 8497

10/05/2021

We are excited to launch our new venture, GrowingSpace, where we will be presenting Group sessions for all ages of life. Baby groups are starting next week and we have the "tween girls" group planned for later this month! Please like and follow GrowingSpace to keep up with new developments!

30/09/2020

This is why Occupational Therapy work

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3403632183055973&id=1721585134594028

Love this! So much scientific support for the power of internal motivation driving neuroplasticity. Our job is to create the environment and task to incentivise the magic of self driven exploration, movement and learning!

01/04/2020

🔒Lockdown - Baking🍪

Baking cookies is a great sensory activity! From crumbing flour and butter with your fingers, making dough and pressing shapes. It works great for strengthening the hand and finger muscles to improve fine motor skills. It is also suitable for most ages!
My 2 year old however ate most of the dough before making actual cookies 🙈
Thus was great fun and by (mostly) only supervising the older kids, I am confident that they might be able to do this again on their own.

30/03/2020

Day 2 and Day 3 of Lockdown was a bit crazy

Since it is impossible to go out, camping in the garden is a great idea for keeping busy. 🏕️

If you are not the baking kind, dont worry, kids enjoy decorating store bought cookies with icing and sprinkles. 🍪
It is even better with a tea party. ☕My my 2 year old and 7 year old sons enjoyed this (excuse the barbie apparel, my son does not know the difference 🤣)

We finished our Pie Charts over the weekend. (lets see how it goes 🙈)

27/03/2020

🔒Lockdown Day 1🔒
How to make a flexible schedule "pie chart"

What will you do with your kids during this period? 🤔 We had a meeting with our kids and decided to establish a routine for the following 3 weeks. 📝 All the same rules as our usual school weeks will apply (go to bed at 19h30, no screentime Monday to Friday ect.)

But in order to have a productive day, we set up a flexible schedule.

Today was a creative day where we painted and prepared a pie chart (divided into 12 hours of the day) to set our schedule 🎨 Each "pie" is a seperate piece of paper that can be moved around to allow for a flexible routine.
Example: we might want to do gardening early one morning instead of school, but can then rearrange our chart to allow for school at a later time 😉.

We will also make a list of activities that the children want to do, such as experiments, painting, clay, boardgames ect that will each be placed on a seperate card that can be drawn from a jar each morning for the activity time slot. ⚗️🔬🥋🎨

What will your plan be for the next few weeks? Have you considered a shedule for yourself and the children? What will you include in your chart?

I will add our final product once it has been completed😊

28/01/2020

Executive Functioning Skills guide everything we do. From making decisions, to staying on track with an activity, to planning and prioritizing a task. The ability to make a decision, plan it out, and act on it without being distracted is what allows us to accomplish the most mundane of tasks to the more complicated and multi-step actions.

https://www.theottoolbox.com/executive-functioning-skills/

27/01/2020

Skool is vol spoed aan die gang en die kinders is opgewonde om terug te wees. Sommige kinders kan die begin van die skool jaar meer stresvol ervaar... Dis 'n nuwe graad, nuwe onderwyser of dalk ook 'n nuwe skool. Hier is 'n paar idees vir ouers om die angstige kinders bietjie meer gerus te stel.

It’s not unusual for kids to need a little extra help adjusting to the start of school. Here are 12 tips that will help.

23/01/2020

Shaketha Marion McGregor is a mom-of-three from Georgia who wanted to teach her beloved children an important life lesson about earning money, so she decided that from now on, they won’t be getting their allowance as easy as coming up to her and nagging her for it. So, she created a hiring event w...

14/01/2020

📒Today we are starting the new school year refreshed and ready! 📚
Here are some great organizing ideas for homework and studying. 📝
🤓Good luck with the first day, 😉

https://www.theidearoom.net/back-to-school-organization-ideas/

Back to school time is quickly approaching and that means it’s time to start thinking about schedules, homework, backpacks, jackets an extracurricular activities. I believe if there is a plan in place before the busyness begins, then there may be less chaos.

14/01/2020

Children learn their most important lessons on the playground, not in the classroom, researchers say.