Why Smart Kids Struggle: 10 Signs Your Child May Need Executive Function Support
Does your child forget homework they completed, take two hours on a 30-minute assignment, or meltdown over minor schedule changes? These are common signs of an executive function skills gap — not laziness or defiance. Learn the 10 most misunderstood signs and what they look like at every age.
What Is Executive Function Coaching? Everything Parents Need to Know
If you’ve been told your child is “so smart but just needs to apply themselves,” you’re not alone. I hear some version of this on nearly every discovery call I take with parents: My kid aces the test, but they have a 68% in the class because they never turn anything in. It’s one of […]
4 Tips to Defeat the End of Semester Stress in December
End of semester stress hits differently in December. Between finals, missing assignments, and holiday chaos, students with ADHD and executive functioning challenges can feel completely overwhelmed. Here’s how to help your child finish strong—with practical strategies for managing December school overwhelm, semester finals tips that actually work, and a clear plan for getting through the next few weeks without meltdowns. You’re not alone in this.
Mastering Projects: How to Break Down Tasks for Better Progress
Executive function (EF) is an umbrella term to describe the mental skills needed to plan, focus, remember instructions, and manage multiple tasks. These cognitive processes help us accomplish our goals. Organizing, prioritizing, and executing tasks effectively can be challenging for children, especially those with weaker EF skills. As a result, these students may struggle with […]
Drive Success: How Family Meetings Can Transform Your Team Dynamics
Five tips for using family meetings to empower kids to develop stronger executive functioning and transform your family team’s dynamics.
5 Tips for Building Better Memory and Executive Function
As we learn more about the connection between working memory and executive function, learn 5 strategies to compensate for memory weaknesses.
3 Key Strategies to Learn How to Prioritize
Minds are busy places, and all of us—whether we struggle with executive functions or not—have lots of ideas for things we want to accomplish. But as David Allen said in his book, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” So how do we translate those […]
Four Valuable Ways to Support Self-Monitoring Skills
Self-monitoring and self-management skills are the pinnacle of executive functioning. Students who engage in self-monitoring work toward a goal and reflect on how things are going. This requires problem solving skills because they make adjustments if needed. To effectively self-monitor and self-manage, students incorporate all their other executive function skills. This means planning, prioritizing, organizing, goal […]
10 Great Books about Emotional Regulation for Kids
A look at ten children’s books about emotional regulation, teaching strategies to elementary students who need executive function support.
Building Study Skills in Five Easy Ways
Good study routines are rarely taught to teens. Learn five strategies for buildings study skills to boost your academic success.