Self Care - Independent Skills
Confidence is a Key to Success!
Confidence is a Key to Success!
- Practice, Practice, Practice! Prior to being exposed to a social learning environment, help your child develop these independent self-care skills over the summer….
- Open and close the backpack- kids will pack up themselves.
- Laces, buttons, zippers, and snaps- practice makes perfect!
- Coats and jackets -where is that armhole; it can also stow my hat & gloves in my sleeve!
- Coughing and nose blowing, and hand hygiene - Please teach how to cough into your elbow and how to blow your nose with a tissue, and then afterward to wash hands effectively for 20 seconds or more (sing happy birthday twice through).
- Opening straws, milk containers, and juice boxes - lunchroom skills!
- Bathroom routines - this is a BIG ONE! Students should be toilet trained and be confident that they can use the restroom solo. Our Beginner classrooms have a bathroom and children will use it independently. Shared hallway and lunchroom bathrooms will also be used. Some toilets have handles, push buttons, and automatic flushing. Here are some helpful tips to build confidence and be successful…
- Don’t Hold IT - Everybody Goes!!
- Prevents constipation/medical complications from chronic constipation / functional constipation / encopresis
- Prevents bellyaches
- Prevents bowel movement accidents in school.
- Prevents missed time from class and disruption of learning.
- Prevents disruption to social relations and harmonious integration in the school environment.
- Prevents early dismissal requests and absenteeism
- Teach your child to wipe themselves (especially after bowel movements)
- To independently flush after using the toilet and to wash hands.
- Expose to restrooms outside of your home, including with automated flushing.
- Make sure they can clean up after themselves and wipe the seat.
- Use visuals to help at home. A visual reminder may serve as a gentle reminder not to skip a step.
The video from the Children's Hospital of Colorado is a good resource for those with
soiling accidents and chronic constipation concerns.
You can review
"The POO in YOU" video
by searching for it on U Tube.
soiling accidents and chronic constipation concerns.
You can review
"The POO in YOU" video
by searching for it on U Tube.