Routines don’t have to be rigid—they just need to feel safe. This post explores how daily rhythms support the nervous system and shares simple family activities to help bring more calm and connection into your home.

Food can play a big role in mood, focus, and emotional balance. We explore how daily eating habits affect the nervous system and share gentle tips to support regulation—especially for kids who are picky, sensitive, or anxious around food.

Everything your child does—playing, learning, coping—starts with the nervous system. In this blog, we explain how movement, connection, and sensory input shape your child’s development and what to do when things feel out of sync.

A sensory diet isn’t about food—it’s a plan of activities to help your child feel calm, focused, and regulated. In this post, we explain what a sensory diet is, why it helps, and how we tailor them to each child at Seeds OT.

Is your child sensitive to sounds, clothes, or textures? You're not alone. Many children experience the world more intensely. This blog explains why, how it affects daily life, and how OT can help your child feel more comfortable and confident.

We use polyvagal theory to understand what’s happening underneath—how a child’s nervous system responds to stress, change, or overwhelm. Once we know what their body needs to feel safe, we can support real regulation and growth.

Paediatric occupational therapists support kids with all the skills they need for everyday life—like getting dressed, playing with others, focusing at school, managing emotions, building independence, and more. In this post, we break down what OT is, who it helps, and what to expect in sessions at Seeds OT

In paediatric occupational therapy, connection is often the most powerful tool we have. Relational therapy shifts the focus away from simply “fixing” skills and toward nurturing the therapeutic relationship itself—because children grow best in safe, attuned, and emotionally responsive spaces.

Relational approaches in OT honour the idea that regulation, trust, and capacity develop through co-regulation and felt safety. Whether we're working on sensory integration, emotional regulation, or functional independence, we’re also building a foundation of connection—one that helps a child feel seen, safe, and capable.

This is especially important for children with trauma histories, neurodivergence, or difficulty navigating social and emotional cues. A relational lens means the therapist isn't just assessing behaviours but tuning into the why behind them—responding with curiosity, empathy, and consistency.

At its core, relational therapy reminds us: the relationship is the intervention.

We often hear about helping kids learn to self-regulate but the truth is regulation doesn’t start alone. It begins through relationship.

When your child is overwhelmed, upset, or full of energy they are not trying to be difficult. Their nervous system is asking for help and the most powerful support we can give is often simply being there with them.

This post is about co-regulation — how we help kids feel safe enough to calm down by the way we show up with our tone, presence, and patience when things get tough.

Kids don’t learn to calm down because we tell them to. They learn it because we show them how it feels when we are with them.