44. Confused Yet Full of Wonder Road Map for Regulation and Engagement Through a Sensory Emotional Lens

In today’s episode, we’re focusing on the Confused Yet Full of Wonder Sensory Emotional Personality map. We'll explore the specific sensory and emotional behaviors—essentially the landmarks—that you can expect to encounter on this SEP map. By recognizing these key traits, you’ll be better equipped to understand and navigate your child's world with connection, empathy and insight. 

Just as a map offers guidance through unfamiliar landscapes, understanding your child's Sensory Emotional Personality (SEP) can provide clear guidance through your child’s behaviors and interactions. Each SEP serves as a guide, revealing how children process sensations and navigate their emotional world, and unveiling their unique characteristics and behavioral tendencies, shedding light on why they act the way they do. As caregivers, this understanding empowers us to anticipate and respond to their needs more effectively.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• The expected social behaviors of the Confused Yet Full of Wonder Personality

• The expected emotional expressions of the Confused Yet Full of Wonder Personality

• How to know if your child doesn’t have the just right sensory information or sensory data to use in order to match their actions/behaviors to what is expected of them

• The connection between perceiving sensations in the just right way and emotion regulation 

• How difficulty with perception of sensation in the just right way shows up in social interactions, such as over talking, over touching, difficulty with personal space

• Why you may need to constantly redirect your child and repeat yourself when asking them to do things in daily life  

• How provision of time and space and having the expectation that it will take your child more time, move moving and more experimenting to do things can support regulation and participation 

• Ways to respond to your Confused Yet Full of Wonder child to both address and prevent dysregulation through validation of their experience and provision of Sensory Emotional supports

  
  

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About

Michele Parkins MS, OTR/L IMH-E®

Founder & Director, Great Kids Place 

Founder, Sensory Emotional Engagement Model™

Michele is an Occupational Therapist endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. She specializes in working with children and families with Sensory Processing and Integration Disorders and challenges in social-emotional development. She is also a parent of two sensory kids. Michele is passionate about working with families and other therapists and continues to do so as a clinician and educator. She educates therapists fro