15 Tips to de-energize when homeschooling

Sensitive children and (home) education, a difficult combination. That’s why I wrote 3 parenting tips for your stimulus-sensitive child now that your children have to stay home from school and are at risk of becoming overstimulated.

Most schools should have emailed or delivered teaching materials for your children for the coming weeks. But how do you make homeschooling a bit relaxed and fun? And how do you ensure that you build in enough moments of relaxation and de-stimulation?

Be realistic

Perhaps an open door, but try not to set the bar too high for yourself and your child. Provide variety in your child’s daily program and of course make it visual for your child. This is how you help your child de-stimulate.

Check Sclera for free daily rhythm icons. After every half hour of working on school assignments, schedule a relaxing activity so that your child can de-stimulate.

15 Activities to de-energize

And in between school tasks, you try to use activities that help your sensitive child to process stimuli. The activities can vary per child and per moment. Read my suggestions here to help your sensitive child de-stimulate.

• Do yoga exercises together
• Listen to music or a listening story (with these nice headphones)
• Chewing on a chewing chain
• Hum or sing a song together
• Use a weighted hose or weighted pad
• Wear a hearing protector with noise reduction
• Use a pressure vest
• Read a book
• Drawing or coloring
• Sensory play with play sand or rice
• Knead briefly with aromatheraputty
• Rocking
• Let your child sort pompom balls, beads or animals
• Watching and discovering with sensory bottle or tactile bags
• Cuddling with a pet

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Is your child overstimulated or is it a tantrum?

By building in sufficient stimulus-regulating activities, you partly prevent your child’s angry outbursts. Do you sometimes wonder if there is a tantrum or rather overstimulation? Read the differences between a tantrum and overstimulation here.

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