Good Times with Out-of-Sync Grandkids

If you have an out-of-sync grandchild and are looking for enjoyable interactions, this book is for you. It is part of the “Out-of-Sync" Series, intended to help parents, teachers, relatives, and professionals support kids with sensory processing differences.

Good Times with Out-of-Sync Grandkids is a guide for making memories. It includes more than fifty activities that the fictional Grammy and Pops have enjoyed over the years with their fictional grandchildren, Carrie, Darwin, and Edward. You may have met the kids in The Out-of-Sync Family: A Story about Sensory Differences (Sensory World, 2023).

The characters are imaginary, but their experiences are real, coming from the author’s life as a child, babysitter, mother, preschool teacher, special education consultant, Cub Scout leader, and grandparent. This book may trigger happy memories of what you, as a child, loved to do with your grandparents and may help you reanimate those shared experiences, adapting them to match your grandchild’s age, interest, and sensory differences.

Activities in the book address an out-of-sync child’s:
Showing overresponsivity—or underresponsivity—to touch and movementCraving—or avoiding—sensory stimulationBeing constantly—or hardly ever—on the goConfusion by what he or she hears, sees, feels, tastes, and smellsLow energy/low muscle toneLacking energy/being limp Tendency to trip on air, be clumsy and break thingsBeing difficult to understand when speaking Acting socially awkwardBeing loving and kind, but anxious and lacking self-confidenceCarol is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University and earned an M.A. in Education and Human Development from the George Washington University. She lives in Maryland with her partner Mark and has five grandchildren. When she’s not writing, Carol plays the cello, walks three miles a day, and answers every email.