Results aren’t a prediction of how well you will do in life. Join Aniesa as she dives into exams, results and teaching your kids. Discover why results aren’t everything and why being happy, independent and confident is far more important. KEY TAKEAWAYS Don't write kids off, give them a chance to play, explore and come into themselves. There’s always a way to teach kids, results on paper aren’t everything. Your child's happiness is the most important thing. A happy child is more willing to learn ...
Aug 31, 2022•6 min•Ep. 28
There are four areas where both children and adults can have sensory integration problems. In this episode, Aniesa explains each one and how it can impact our daily lives and the development of our children. KEY TAKEAWAYS There are four areas that can be defined as sensory integration problems, sensory modulation, sensory discrimination and perception, vestibular and bilateral functions and finally your praxis. Sensory modulation occurs when your brain either over-responds or under-responds to t...
Aug 24, 2022•14 min•Ep. 27
Aniesa explores the sense of smell among children and their parents in a new episode of The Sensational Kids Show. Discover how smell is closely linked to our memory, taste and emotions, learn how smells can trigger powerful experiences from your memory bank and why smell can be an indicator of child development. KEY TAKEAWAYS Your sense of smell is closely linked with your memory and certain smells will spark a memory of a particular experience stored within your memory centre. The memory centr...
Aug 18, 2022•15 min•Ep. 26
There are some things that are absolutely vital to teach our children. In this episode of The Sensational Kids Show, Aniesa explores what activities, thoughts and feelings are important to our kids' development, which activities will help them grow and why it’s important to respect their own decision-making. KEY TAKEAWAYS Insist that your kids advocate for themselves. Respect their decision and when they’ve made their mind up about a certain situation. Always reassure them that it’s okay and exp...
Aug 10, 2022•5 min•Ep. 25
How can we help our kids deal with disappointment? In this episode, Aniesa explains why we shouldn’t dismiss our children’s big emotions, why we need to teach them to deal with feelings to become self-regulated adults and how encouraging your children to open up can help them create their own inner voice. KEY TAKEAWAYS It's important to remember that we need to allow our kids to feel disappointed. Children need to learn how to deal with big emotions and understand what’s going on. This will help...
Aug 03, 2022•20 min•Ep. 24
Learn why core strength is so important to growth and developing fine motor skills. Join Aniesa as she shares the daily activities you can do with your child to build a strong foundation of core strength, why it’s essential to improving a child's stamina and endurance and how a lack of core strength can result in a de-motivated and tired child. KEY TAKEAWAYS Having a good core strength made up of a range of different muscles will form the foundation for most of our growth and fine motor skills. ...
Jul 28, 2022•15 min•Ep. 23
Welcome back to The Sensational Kids Show, in this episode Aniesa reflects on her experience at the international sensory integration conference.. Discover why inclusion is so important to children's development, how we can use technological advances in education to improve learning and why including others makes everyone's life simpler. KEY TAKEAWAYS We've seen a lot of advances in medicine and technology, however often it is not made available to the younger generation. For example, when it co...
Jul 20, 2022•13 min•Ep. 22
Welcome back to The Sensational Kids Show as Aniesa reflects on how little she knew about everything when she became a parent. Tune in to hear why it’s okay to struggle, how to overcome self-doubt and limiting beliefs and why as parents we just need to do what we can with what we have. KEY TAKEAWAYS When your child is struggling and there’s so much you need to do, so many things their teacher is telling you to do to help them but it’s overwhelming. You have to believe in yourself, find your groo...
Jul 13, 2022•13 min•Ep. 21
Join Aniesa as she discusses auditory sensitivity and auditory defensiveness. Discover how sounds can affect children and adults, how sensory systems are designed to protect us and the fight, flight or freeze mechanism. KEY TAKEAWAYS Auditory sensitivity affects children and adults who struggle with being sensitive to certain sounds, loud or unexpected noises and sounds that are at specific pitches or those that might startle them. You may notice signs of auditory sensitivity if children are cov...
Jul 06, 2022•15 min•Ep. 20
Aniesa is joined my music therapist Claire Wood in today’s episode of The Sensational Kids Show. They discuss how music can help with multiple learning difficulties, why psychodynamic and neurologic therapy is helping people of all ages and why child-led sessions can empower children. KEY TAKEAWAYS Music and psychodynamic therapy has always been used to support adults, young people and children with their general development, their movements and overall communication skills. Neurologic music the...
Jun 29, 2022•36 min•Ep. 19
Aniesa draws on a recent experience with her son. She had a very tough day and her son came home to find her very upset and in a state of overwhelm. It made her re-recognise the importance of children seeing their parents, caregivers and other adults experience real emotions and in this episode she explores why this is. KEY TAKEAWAYS When your child is sad, don’t tell them to not be sad. It’s better to let them experience and feel their emotions and instead offer them support, either by asking i...
Jun 22, 2022•12 min•Ep. 18
In today's episode of The Sensational Kids Show, Aniesa is joined by Wellbeing Specialist and Mental Health Expert Giselle Monbiot. They discuss anxiety in kids and teenagers, the movement towards expressing emotions and how forming attachments between parent and child is crucial to treating mental health issues. KEY TAKEAWAYS There's an awful lot of anxiety in kids and teenagers in school, specifically in those that are possibly a bit more introverted and cannot be put into a particular box. As...
Jun 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 17
In this episode of The Sensational Kids Show, Aniesa discusses our eighth sense, interoception. Learn how to tune into interoception to better understand your body, your emotions and what you need to do to stay healthy and in a positive mindset. KEY TAKEAWAYS It can be hard for some kids to just adapt to that change and often they can't quite explain how or what they're feeling. Our eighth sense is called interoception. You have your functional senses, which use your sight, smell, taste, hearing...
Jun 08, 2022•17 min•Ep. 16
Join Aniesa as she discusses ADHD and how it presents itself differently in girls, and women and how it is so often undiagnosed or missed. Understand the signs and symptoms to be able to spot ADHD, how to overcome the gender bias and the different coping strategies to help a child with ADHD focus. KEY TAKEAWAYS Why do boys often get diagnosed with ADHD and girls don't? At school, boys are presented differently, as overactive and boisterous. Studies have shown a gender bias towards diagnosing ADH...
Jun 01, 2022•24 min•Ep. 15
In today's episode of The Sensational Kids Show, Aniesa gives you some ideas of things you can ask your kids after school. How to engage with them and ask questions that lead to more meaningful conversations that give your child the opportunity to express their feelings and emotions. KEY TAKEAWAYS As adults, we can be pretty annoying and it needs to be acceptable for children to be able to identify and vocalise anyone in a position of authority that annoys them. No feelings are wrong or incorrec...
May 25, 2022•14 min•Ep. 14
Have you experienced Empty Nest Syndrome? Join Aniesa as she discusses the feelings, emotions and emptiness you can feel when your children grow up, leave and become less dependent on you. Learn how to overcome Empty Nest Syndrome, how you can fill your diary with new hobbies and why acknowledging your feelings is essential to putting yourself first. KEY TAKEAWAYS Empty nest syndrome is a phenomenon in which parents experience feelings of sadness and loss when the last child leaves home. Althoug...
May 18, 2022•15 min•Ep. 13
Aniesa is joined by award-winning author and behavioural specialist, David Robson. Together they discuss the instinct of parents, the role teachers play in our children's lives and how you help your child connect, achieve and navigate. KEY TAKEAWAYS Teachers have so much pressure to perform and to deliver lessons it's hard for them to prioritise the emotional needs of their pupils, it's the awareness of mental health that needs to be addressed as part of the teacher's remit. You've got instinct ...
May 11, 2022•45 min•Ep. 12
Join Aniesa as she explores and explains the four parenting attachment styles and how attachment theory can impact parenting and the development of your child into adult life. KEY TAKEAWAYS As a parent, your presence is designed to make your child feel loved, safe, secure and protected and this leads to attachment. Attachment theory is how parents respond to their child's needs. Attachment styles are working models of how our relationships function and how they are formed early on in our lives. ...
May 04, 2022•21 min•Ep. 11
Kids love teaching! In today's show, Aniesa shares why kids love to teach and how it benefits their development. Discover why letting kids teach others will help with their planning, sequencing and directional skills. KEY TAKEAWAYS Kids teaching improves their planning skills, their sequencing and how well they can describe and explain their actions. Allowing kids the opportunity to teach and instruct can really help them develop their ability to give directions and to explain themselves. This h...
Apr 27, 2022•14 min•Ep. 10
In today's episode of The Sensational Kids show, Aniesa explores strategies for treating proprioception difficulties, our adaptive system and suggested some activities for how to help develop kids who are under-responsive or over-responsive. KEY TAKEAWAYS In terms of proprioception, you can be under-responsive or over-responsive, and it's really going to impact your movement, your motor functioning and your motor output. Somatosensory dyspraxia and your postural disorders are super important for...
Apr 20, 2022•35 min•Ep. 9
Executive functioning is overlooked, but crucial to development. In today's show, Aniesa explores executive functioning, how to build cognitive skills and regulate behaviour. Discover how to create a consistent routine with your child, how to develop skills and why self-control and self-regulation are essential to development. KEY TAKEAWAYS Executive functioning is the higher order of cognitive skills such as behaviour regulation and goal-directed activities. It's the ability to be self-directed...
Apr 13, 2022•52 min•Ep. 8
Aniesa is joined by play consultant, and author of the PAUSE, PLAY, CONNECTⓇ Flow, Debi John. Today they explore the world of play, how to express, learn and connect with your child through the wonderful world of play. KEY TAKEAWAYS The opposite to play is rigidity and feeling very stuck. Playfulness is a free expression with creativity and no big agenda. Playing brings that feeling of joy and freedom of expressing yourself and learning and connecting. Play can heal trauma and it can heal commun...
Apr 06, 2022•29 min•Ep. 7
Five bugbears we have to overcome as parents, teachers and carers. In today's show, Aniesa shares her own experience and the bugbears and annoying things parents are taught or told to do when looking after their child. KEY TAKEAWAYS It's hard to build trust when a child has psyched themselves up about completing a task and then when they complete it parents, teachers or carers ask for more. Children won't eat when they're hungry if they're forced and not comfortable with the taste, texture or sm...
Mar 30, 2022•9 min•Ep. 6
Connection is everything, If we cannot connect and if we don't connect, then what's the point. Join Aniesa as she explains the value of connection, how to achieve and navigate your relationships in order to become happy and fulfilled and why the most important connection you can have is the one with yourself. KEY TAKEAWAYS Connection and guilt go hand in hand but In order for you to connect you have to disconnect with the idea of guilt and that you're not good enough. Connection is everything an...
Mar 30, 2022•20 min•Ep. 5
Touch is a very powerful sense and can have a huge impact on development. In this episode find out more about our fundamental senses, the tactile system and how to develop your child's fine motor skills. Discover the difference between light and deep touch, how they're related to your emotions and how to overcome difficulties with tactile processing. KEY TAKEAWAYS The tactile system is made up of your functional senses such as sight, smell, taste and touch. Then you have your balance or the vest...
Mar 30, 2022•29 min•Ep. 4
What happens when things aren't quite going according to plan? In today's show, Aniesa dives into sensory processing and how to overcome to manage our senses, responses, actions and reactions. Discover the impact of your tactile system, how to help your child's development and how to spot sensory processing disorder. KEY TAKEAWAYS Sensory processing disorder is like a neurological traffic jam, which prevents certain parts of the brain from receiving the information they need to adequately and co...
Mar 30, 2022•22 min•Ep. 3
Guilt is the thief of all things joyful. In today's episode of The Sensational Kids Show, Aniesa explores the guilt we all feel when we become parents and how to overcome it. Discover why guilt is completely unnecessary, how to take care of yourself and start letting go and why the perfect parents we're trying to be simply don't exist. KEY TAKEAWAYS Guilt is completely unnecessary. It has no purpose, serves no purpose and is often completely and utterly self-inflicted. Guilt is a constant for pa...
Mar 30, 2022•18 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to The Sensational Kids Show, a podcast all about empowering kids and the adults who raise them, care for them and teach them. This podcast is for all those parents who want their children to thrive, to succeed and simply not to have to struggle with what seems to come so easily to other kids their age. It is for anyone caring for a child with any range or level of additional needs. In today's episode, I'll be sharing a little bit about my own journey and passion and reasons for launchin...
Mar 30, 2022•8 min•Ep. 1
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