Same routine. Every single day.

Ajouté : 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]This is almost always missed with the kid who is struggling with multi-step instructions. The parents say, "I don't know what's going on. My kid went into first grade, and where they could follow two to three-step instructions, like they could do it okay, all of the sudden they can't do it." You know, we have the same routine every day, and I ask them to, you know, put their socks on, put their shoes on, put their coat on, and they put their socks on, and they forget the rest. They're walking and they see a shiny thing, or they see a toy, they see their Legos, and I find them just playing with their Legos. What happened?

[00:00:30]They had the skill, and now they don't have the skill. What's almost always missed is, in this scenario, what we're seeing is that we're seeing that this child is not attending to their visual cognitive mind. They're starting to lose resilience. We're starting to have a demand avoidance cycle, which is very common at this age. You're going to see this shift towards this fight or flight, this loss of resilience. You may see postural distortion, you may see some errors in eye movements that come up, and you will almost certainly see a decreased attentiveness in their visual mind, which is why they're become more impulsive to reacting into their environment. Where they could plan and move through space with a couple instructions, two to three-step instructions, now they're doing one, they're having an input, they see something fun, and they're going to that thing, they're reacting. more impulsive.

[00:01:17]If this isn't corrected or addressed with the appropriate clinical tools and parenting supports, right now strategies at this point, this can become a bigger issue as we dig deeper into the demand avoidance cycle.