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Just Needs: parenting children with disabilities
How to handle overstimulation during the holidays
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Exceptional Lives
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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Let’s talk about overstimulation, especially during the holidays. Here’s the interesting part though, this is about overstimulation for us parents. Here are 4 tips that have helped me a lot.
Resources mentioned in this episode
- Overstimulated by Life? 20 Ways to Give Your ADHD Senses a Break
- Study shows overstimulation caused by smartphones, while they promise the opposite
- Digital Overload: What Is It, and How Is It Affecting Our Mental and Physical Health?
- Sleep and health
- Just Needs: Better parenting through self-regulation
- Just Needs: Co-regulation: your secret tool for managing meltdowns
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