Sensory Detectives (Holiday Edition): Building Your Family’s Holiday Sensory Toolkit

About this group

The holidays are full of sensory input: twinkling lights, crowded gatherings, new foods, loud cousins, scratchy outfits, travel days, and routines that disappear for weeks at a time. Some kids crave more input and bounce off the walls. Others shut down or melt down from input most people don’t even notice. When you don’t know which pattern you’re looking at, it’s easy to misread what’s actually going on. Over two sessions, you’ll learn to become a detective of your child’s sensory world: reading their cues, understanding the difference between seeking and avoiding, and building a personalized holiday toolkit so you’re not guessing your way through each hard moment of the season. In Session 1, we’ll dig into what sensory processing actually is, identify your child’s sensory profile, and start spotting the patterns that tend to show up during the holidays. In Session 2, we’ll turn those patterns into a plan, with strategies for gatherings, travel, and schedule changes, plus one of the trickiest calls parents face: when to accommodate a sensory need and when gentle exposure is the right call. This series is for parents who want to move past generic holiday survival tips and build something specific to their own child. It’s hands-on and practical, with strategies you’ll keep using long after the decorations come down.