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Touch Sensitivity

Sensitive skin is a topic near and dear to my heart — when I was little, I would break out in hives every time my mom changed laundry detergents! My skin is very sensitive when it comes to cleansers and scents. But that’s not the only kind of sensitive skin out there. Touch sensitivity is a kind of malfunction in the tactile sensory system. Sensations that might be meaningless background noise (like the feel of the seams in your shirt) might be uncomfortable or even painful to a person with touch sensitivity (also known as tactile defensiveness). A person with … Continue reading →

Pleasure Your Mate Month: Come to Your Senses

The month of September marks a lot of strange holidays and events, among them Pleasure Your Mate Month. Have you stopped to think about pleasuring your mate recently? What about the level of intimacy in your marriage or how to make your marriage sexier? Sex and marriage is a tricky –sometimes touchy (no pun intended)—- topic, but it’s important to keep a marriage sensual. But it’s also hard. Kids, work, schedules, deadlines, chores…they all conspire to suck the sexy out of marriage. There isn’t always enough time in the day, or energy at the end of one, to tend to … Continue reading →

How Do I Get Closer to My Loved One?

Are you loved? Do you love? I bet you do. After all, you’re reading the marriage blog and whether you are married, have been married or desire to be married – then you are likely familiar with the concept of love and you do love. When we love someone, whether that someone is our husband, our wife, our child, our parents, our siblings or our friends, we want to be close to them. We want to foster that closeness and deepen it, if possible. In my experience, I’ve been very close to some people and that closeness has waxed and … Continue reading →

The Sense of Touch – The World is at Their Fingertips

You know, it’s hard to pick out what sense is my favorite sense. After all, I love to feel the silkiness of my dog’s fur and the softness of my daughter’s cheek. Touching is so wonderful – whether the surface is smooth, rough, soft, scaly, feathered or downy. There is so much in the world that our toddlers can discover through their sense of touch. The pages of a hard cardboard book; the roughness of their daddy’s stubble cheek; the softness of your own hair – and yes, your toddler will love to run their fingers through it and tug … Continue reading →

Make a 5 Senses Book

Children love exploring their environment and using their senses. So give your kids a chance to use and learn something about their five senses. You will need: 6 pieces of paper Hole punch Yarn or string Glue Crayons Senses objects (see examples below) Old newspapers or magazines First make a page for each of the five senses and write or have your child write Smell, Taste, Touch, Hear, and Sight on the top of each page. Then you or your child can draw a nose, mouth, hands, ears, and eyes on the corresponding pages. Punch three holes on one side … Continue reading →

Nurturing Temperamental Traits – Sensory Threshold

Sensory threshold is how sensitive your child is to their physical environment things like: sound, taste, temperature, and touch. Does your baby startle easily? Is your child a picky eater or will she eat anything? Can your baby sleep through anything? Does your child like certain types of clothing? Do you have to cut out the tags on your child’s clothes? After falling down do they quickly get up and continue playing? Insensitive This doesn’t mean your child doesn’t have feelings just that they aren’t as sensitive to their physical environment. This is the child that isn’t fazed by loud … Continue reading →