Continuing the Making Sense of Your Child’s Behavior series, Part III, Kelly focuses on the proprioceptive sense that is crucial in helping to understand and make sense of a child’s behavior. This sense is very important for parents to understand because this particular sense can help parents understand their kids, themselves and even other children if this sense is not a struggle for their own children.

Proprioception refers to the sense or the position of the muscles and joints of our body that enables our brains to know where each of the body parts is and how they are moving. God designed our bodies to be this way and for proprioception to be the way that the nervous system keeps track of and controls the different parts of the body.

Proprioceptive input is considered a “magic pill” that can help any perso ...