A child wants something. The parent says no. The escalation begins and the moment the parent gives in, something shifts. The child has just learned that screaming works. In this post, we explore the Attention and Tangible functions of behaviour: what drives them, how they grow, and how to stop reinforcing the very behaviours we want to change.

Sensory behaviour is the hardest function to address not because it's the most dramatic, but because it doesn't follow the script. The same sound that barely registers for one child can send another into full crisis. In this post, I'm unpacking sensory seeking vs. avoidance, sharing real classroom stories, and explaining what regulation actually looks like when you're living inside a nervous system that processes the world differently.