The Self-Regulated Kid:
Exptert Tips for Pro-Acitve Parents
Self-regulation skills are major predictors of academic success and general well-being.
Here is what parents can do about it.
Exptert Tips for Pro-Acitve Parents
Self-regulation skills are major predictors of academic success and general well-being.
Here is what parents can do about it.
The most frequent inquiry I receive is from parents of middle and high school students whose kids have "executive function challenges." For many students, repairing and rebuilding self-regulation skills at this stage of development is a complex, time consuming process. At this stage of development, many struggling students don't want the support or don't want to stand out in any way, which makes interventions all the more challenging.
When you think of it as a skill to be taught — rather than, say, just bad behavior — it changes the tone and content of the feedback you give kids.
This parent education consultation is designed for parents of young kids. empowers parents to sow the seeds of executive function skills at home when kids are young and more excited about parental involvement -when opportunities to make a big difference abound.
Combining 20 years of experience in K-12 schools with expertise in learning disabilities, ADHD, executive function and child development, Dan offers practical, humorous advice for nurturing kids’ executive skills and problem solving abilities in our hurried, distracted world.
This practical, 90-minute consultation introduces an age appropriate program that helps parents:
When you think of it as a skill to be taught — rather than, say, just bad behavior — it changes the tone and content of the feedback you give kids.
This parent education consultation is designed for parents of young kids. empowers parents to sow the seeds of executive function skills at home when kids are young and more excited about parental involvement -when opportunities to make a big difference abound.
Combining 20 years of experience in K-12 schools with expertise in learning disabilities, ADHD, executive function and child development, Dan offers practical, humorous advice for nurturing kids’ executive skills and problem solving abilities in our hurried, distracted world.
This practical, 90-minute consultation introduces an age appropriate program that helps parents:
- Understand a simple, model of executive function that enables more responsive, helpful parenting
- Foster routines, habits and home environments that help kids regulate behavior and gain independence
- Recognize the significant impact of screen time on the development of self-regulation and behavior inhibition -core executive skills
- Survey a range of techniques that support writing, time management. and organization
- Learn techniques for more responsive and productive homework support
- Collaborate with teachers to build home-school partnerships
- Make a pro-active plan to support your child’s healthy growth and development.
Details for in-home consult:
- Who: parents of toddlers through age 12
- This program is especially beneficial to parents of toddlers and kids up to age 12.
- What: 90 minute consultation
- Where: Innovative Learning Services' office location, 59 Bayview Road, Kentfield, CA.
- Investment: $249.00; contact Dan for small groups
- When: weekdays
- A range of useful materials are included.
Further reading:
- Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function. Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
- 7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors That Keep Children From Growing Into Leaders, Forbes
- We're Thinking About ADHD All Wrong, Says A Top Pediatrician, nprED
- Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Dawson and Guare
- The Marshmallow Test, Dr. Walter Mischel
Raising Capable Kids empowers parents to understand the issues
and sow the seeds of executive function during childhood and early adolescence
-stages when kids are excited about parental involvement
and opportunities to make a difference abound.
and sow the seeds of executive function during childhood and early adolescence
-stages when kids are excited about parental involvement
and opportunities to make a difference abound.
Praise from parents and professionals:
"Dan delivered a cogent presentation on Executive Function and parents were thrilled to have such clear examples and solutions presented. My children are so much more successful because of Dan's kind support and tools.”
-Bonnie, parent
“Dan’s discussion on Executive Function was insightful, entertaining comprehensive, and more importantly, immediately applicable. I highly recommend this presentation for parents, teachers and professionals.
-Ed McManis, Head of School, Sterne School, San Francisco
“Dan’s presentation to our faculty and treatment team was both insightful and pragmatic. We are implementing the techniques and strategies Dan worked with our team to develop, and we are seeing improvements in the lives of our students.”
-Mike Bulloch, Parent and Co-Founder/Clinical Director, Way Point Academy
"Dan delivered a cogent presentation on Executive Function and parents were thrilled to have such clear examples and solutions presented. My children are so much more successful because of Dan's kind support and tools.”
-Bonnie, parent
“Dan’s discussion on Executive Function was insightful, entertaining comprehensive, and more importantly, immediately applicable. I highly recommend this presentation for parents, teachers and professionals.
-Ed McManis, Head of School, Sterne School, San Francisco
“Dan’s presentation to our faculty and treatment team was both insightful and pragmatic. We are implementing the techniques and strategies Dan worked with our team to develop, and we are seeing improvements in the lives of our students.”
-Mike Bulloch, Parent and Co-Founder/Clinical Director, Way Point Academy
The brain, like any muscle, grows with practice.
Raising Capable Kids teaches parents how to exercise it
through a set of age-appropriate strategies and household routines
that influence the development of these core competencies.
Raising Capable Kids teaches parents how to exercise it
through a set of age-appropriate strategies and household routines
that influence the development of these core competencies.