We think it is safe to say that sometimes our children do not always understand what we are trying to teach them. We want to impart a particular social skill and they just don’t seem to catch it. Today we are sharing three very effective and powerful tools that you can use to teach a particular skill – physical, social, etc. The example we are using today is teaching a child how to wait, particularly one who is prone to interruptions but you can use the tools for other skills as well. Solutions: Tool #1 – Social story –Written –...
Jacob comes to church activities with aspergers-like symptoms. We love Jacob and are eager to serve him well. He is brilliant and also very rigid in his thinking. If it is not logical to him, it is not to be done. If a teacher or leader or another child is doing something that does not make sense in his black or white only perspective, he really has a hard time. The behavior he sometimes displays is impatience, and/orrudeness, and/ormeltdowns. He cannot work his way out of an “It HAS TO BE DONE like this” way of thinking. We suggest that...
Sometimes as people who serve in children’s ministry we might encounter this: Children who are very sensitive to their world. Lights are often too bright. Sounds are often too loud. Even the slightest hints of perfumes or cleaning chemicals or scented candles or even, children’s markers are too smelly. Wall art and floor displays and simple touches are too much. These are children whose world is overwhelming. They have sensory overload 24/7. This makes it hard to focus. Hard to concentrate. You know when an annoying noise like a car alarm is beeping loudly for a while, or when you are in a...