Your first part is precisely why I sometimes let kids keep toys at their desks when doing work with them. I make it clear, “As long as you answer the questions/do your work, I don’t mind if you keep the toy.” Sometimes a stim toy makes the difference. As long as it’s not distracting them away from what we’ve got to do, it’s fine by me.
Besides, when I went to training for my current workplace, we were encouraged to bring our own stim toys. I used a spinner pretty much the entire time. Another coworker brought a bag of various squishies and pop-it toys to share as well. If it’s acknowledged as useful for us as adults, it should be acknowledged as useful for the kids.
Honestly that’s a good idea and i pretty much let my daughter do the same. Seems to be working, she gets the school work done and doesn’t disrupt the class either, of course there are some bad days, but we just brush those away. No point to make her feel even worse over those one offs.
Luckily nowadays most teachers acknowledge mental differences as well and actually allow kids some fidgeting toys or plushies or even listen to music when doing some independent exercise.
Your first part is precisely why I sometimes let kids keep toys at their desks when doing work with them. I make it clear, “As long as you answer the questions/do your work, I don’t mind if you keep the toy.” Sometimes a stim toy makes the difference. As long as it’s not distracting them away from what we’ve got to do, it’s fine by me.
Besides, when I went to training for my current workplace, we were encouraged to bring our own stim toys. I used a spinner pretty much the entire time. Another coworker brought a bag of various squishies and pop-it toys to share as well. If it’s acknowledged as useful for us as adults, it should be acknowledged as useful for the kids.
Honestly that’s a good idea and i pretty much let my daughter do the same. Seems to be working, she gets the school work done and doesn’t disrupt the class either, of course there are some bad days, but we just brush those away. No point to make her feel even worse over those one offs. Luckily nowadays most teachers acknowledge mental differences as well and actually allow kids some fidgeting toys or plushies or even listen to music when doing some independent exercise.