What does it mean to parent with “sensory smarts” or to be a “sensory smart parent”?
Sensory smarts is a perspective or understanding a parent achieves when she becomes aware of how her child’s sensory issues are affecting him. You know you have sensory smarts when you recognize effective ways to help your child function better, cooperate more easily, focus on learning, and enjoy socializing.
A sensory smart parent helps her child develop his own sensory smarts, empowering him to advocate for himself and meet his own sensory needs in a socially acceptable way.
A sensory smart parent recognizes that sensory processing issues are very, very real, and respects that his child sometimes can’t bring herself to tolerate sensations that others take for granted.
A sensory smart parent can be a mother, father, stepparent, or grandparent.
For more information check out the Sensory Smart Parent Blog and the award-winning Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Issues which features chapters on tuning in to your child, discipline, advocating for him, raising a sensory smart teen, empowering your child in the world, and much, much more.
For more information, check out the Sensory Smart Parent Blog
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