Five Tips to help with parenting and homeschooling neurodivergent children
Whether your child has a condition such as autism or displays such behaviors because of environmental factors, changing your life to be less stimulating, quieter and permeated with regular rhythms can help. Few parents and very few doctors and therapists have experienced calm and peaceful children and the norm of conventional expectations of children (shyness, wanting to play alone, suspicion of strangers, resisting being left alone, acting up– all seen as problems) often distorts what is truly normal and what is a spiritual/psychological problem.
By working with a method of education and parenting based on the reality of human development—Christopherus—one is in a good position to meet a child’s needs, spiritual, social, physical, emotional and psychological.
All of our Christopherus materials are based in the reality of child development. Christopherus, stemming from the therapeutic basis of Waldorf education, is designed to help with whatever behaviors a child displays.
Here are a few resources from Christopherus which can help
The Journey Begins at Home—help for all parents to understand and work with their young children and to avoid the horrible behavior that can result from an over-stimulated, precociously intellectually awoken and tired child.
In order to understand your child’s needs, this free audio download on Child Development by Donna Simmons is a must.
Joyful Movement will help you bring the right games, activities and parenting methods to your child to help nurture and not over-stimulate your child.
A strong rhythm which permeates the days, weeks and months of your family life can help hold and support all children—and especially those with various challenges. This audio download can help.
Our free audio downloads cover topics such as silence, beginnings and endings and ‘no computers for children’, something which may be particularly important for children with various issues.
Posted on October 16, 2025 in Active and Therapeutic Education
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Hi Donna,
I feel compelled to share some things I have been noticing.
As you pointed out, we understand that there are a lot of contributing factors as to why we are seeing an increase in children “on the spectrum”. Yet, I feel I need to point out that even adults who may have simply had dysregulation over their lives, and were doing fine, are now aggravated by something that seemed to encourage an increase in this neurodivergent behavior, since approximately 2019. The list of new chemicals that increase daily, especially glyphosate that creates gut dysbiosis and allows toxins to breach the blood brain barrier, are big factors, sure! Again, there are many things to contend with, but there’s something not usually given enough credit for it’s impact on our biology, and especially that of children:
What seems to be the icing on the cake, or the last straw on the camel’s back? The non-native electromagnetic fields have increased, and are disrupting our electrical system; OUR “life battery” so to speak- mitochondria and so forth, and we have not adapted.
Well, maybe moreso those of us who lean more towards Sanguine and possibly Melancholic, who have a sensitive nervous system; that picks up on not only the physical nature of these new techs, but also the beings that live in these realms of electricity. The more dense or grounded temperaments seem to be less stressed, as I’ve been noticing with the little Cholerics and the sprinkling of Phlegmatics I see.
So, just as we see with any neurological issue, eating more fat, especially animal fats work well to remyelinate the nerves- to grease them up and make them hearty, so is applicable to negate some of the effects of this tech problem.
I am looking at my beautifully sanguine child and keeping my tool box filled by making sure I address potential PANS/PANDAS that is also increasing according to Dr. Deitricht Klinghardt, who I study under. As a Naturopath, I am always on the lookout for modalities and protocols that help folks, especially the future of humanity-the children, and thank the heavens, there are brilliant people ON IT, and many ways to approach these concerns! From homeopathy to movement, and a slew of things in between! Faith in GOD is a big one.
Being a Sanguine leaning sensitive myself, I have been wrestling with these concerns for the last five years, and have been through hell with it. I can say with certainty, Christ is very much a part of this picture and this battle is worth fighting…
Thanks so much for your work!