Karen Young Bundle

The Core Four includes the bestselling Hey Warrior, Hey Awesome, Dear You Love From Your Brain, and But We’re Not Lions.

Creative writing Set

Our Creative writing set has two incredible books

  • Write and Draw your own comic
  • Write your own story

Pre Writing Set

Our Pre Writing Set contains:

  • Djeco Create with Shape Animals
  • Crinkle Cutting Collage Set
  • Fillo Design with Lace

10 Tips for Promoting Positive Sleep for Your Child & Family

Establish Consistent Bedtime Routines Have consistent bedtime routines for your child. This includes setting a regular time to go to bed and wake up each morning for your child and keeping this time consistent on weekdays and weekends as this helps to set the sleep-wake cycle. Ensure your child is having developmentally appropriate amount of… Continue Reading»

Cancellation and Attendance Policy

PURPOSE Here at Building Blocks Therapy, we pride ourselves in providing exceptional quality therapy. As a clinic we invest in the professional development and supervision of our team to ensure that intervention for children and families is evidence based and of the highest quality possible. However, to support families in achieving goals we know that… Continue Reading»

Privacy and Confidentiality Policy

PURPOSE Building Blocks Therapy is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information collected. Building Blocks Therapy complies with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988, other privacy laws that govern how private sector health service providers handle your personal information (including your health information), and Occupational Therapy Australia’s Code of Ethics.  In… Continue Reading»

Top 5 Strategies for Managing Challenging Behaviours

Occupational Therapists at Building Blocks Therapy work with children and their families, kindergarten staff, school staff and other therapists to manage challenging behaviours. A challenging behaviour is any unpleasant behaviour that is socially, culturally or environmentally not appropriate. This can include hitting, screaming, biting, pinching, thrusting, spitting, slapping, kicking, swearing and absconding. The following 5… Continue Reading»

Helping Children With Separation Worries

HELPING CHILDREN WITH SEPARATION WORRIES 10 Practical Strategies As most of you will know children experience a huge range of emotions. As adults we love seeing kids happy and excited and we don’t mind watching them be silly or cheeky either but what we do find extremely difficult is seeing kids distressed, worried, anxious, sad,… Continue Reading»

The Importance Of Teaching Our Children Mindfulness

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is “a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.”   Why is it important to incorporate Mindfulness into our day? Mindfulness improves attention, memory processing and decision making Mindfulness increases our… Continue Reading»