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OT, sleep pics

Sam adores the Occupational Therapy for Sensory Integration Disorder. Hopefully it will be covered by insurance so we only have to pay $20/visit. He liked the ball pit and swings the best but the combination of big muscle activity with fine motor/attention tasks, as in the pics below, meant he could concentrate for a really long time on the cognitive task and afterward felt satisfyingly floppy instead of brimming with pent up energy and tensed muscles as he usually is.



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Sense of Wonder

"...a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength...

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused — a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love — then we wish for knowledge about the subject of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate."

Carson, R. (1965). The sense of wonder. http://www.fws.gov/northeast/rache…