Raising Capable Kids:
A light-hearted, transformative coaching program for parents
who are ready to make some helpful changes.
Combining 25 Years of expert insights from an educational consultant, learning specialist,
classroom teacher, executive function coach -and father of 2 boys, ages 12 and 14
A light-hearted, transformative coaching program for parents
who are ready to make some helpful changes.
Combining 25 Years of expert insights from an educational consultant, learning specialist,
classroom teacher, executive function coach -and father of 2 boys, ages 12 and 14
I spent the first half of my career helping kids and teens become more efficient, organized, and confident learners. I'm refocusing the second half of my career on leveraging everything I have learned to coach parents to take practical, proactive measures that help them:
- Understand: explore a simple, actionable model of executive function skills that applies to everyone at home -parents and kids
- Explore and implement non-pharmacological approaches to managing ADHD
- Reflect and adjust: consider how are environmental factors and household routines impact your child's self-regulation, independence, and confidence including:
- Sleep / bedtime
- Diet/family meal time
- Screen time
- Age-appropriate tasks/chores
- Communications styles and patterns
- Screen use in the car
- School, workspace, and homework considerations
- Over-involvement / hovering / snow-plowing
- Transitions
- Support learning and attention with greater understanding and preparedness -at home and in closer collaboration with teachers
- Communicate with your child in ways that enable cooperation and enjoyment while reducing drama and conflict.
- Expert advice from a fellow co-parent on how to co-parent/collaborate in ways that reduce conflict, provide consistency, and support your child's healthy growth, learning, and organization as he/she/they navigate life in two homes.
Interested in a small group for your parent friends? Contact Dan to inquire.
When it comes to a child's self-regulation or EF foundations, much of it starts with us, the parents in the room. They are shaped by heredity, but strongly influenced by experiences and interactions in the home environment. And that's where our work together begins.
My approach is rooted in light-hearted exploration of the ways your parenting style, home environment, ways of communicating, and understanding of all this are on track and ways to make some very helpful, subtle, often fun shifts in how you roll.
My approach is rooted in light-hearted exploration of the ways your parenting style, home environment, ways of communicating, and understanding of all this are on track and ways to make some very helpful, subtle, often fun shifts in how you roll.
Raising Capable Kids empowers parents to sow the seeds of executive function skills
during childhood, when kids are interested in parental involvement
and opportunities to lay helpful foundations abound.
during childhood, when kids are interested in parental involvement
and opportunities to lay helpful foundations abound.
Details:
Who is a good fit?
This coaching relationship is designed for parents of kids ages 5 through 11, starting in Kindergarten.
Who is a good fit?
This coaching relationship is designed for parents of kids ages 5 through 11, starting in Kindergarten.
- Married couples
- Single parents or guardians
- Divorced or separated parents -teaming up to support your child's self-regulation, learning, and organization in separate homes
- Working parents who want to make the most of their time.
Click here to contact Dan Leibowitz about Raising Capable Kids
How does it work?
- To begin the relationship clients will receive a discovery form that provides an opportunity to reflect on how it's going at home: what's enjoyable, perceived strengths, weaknesses, obstacles, and goals.
- Clients will receive a coaching agreement and discovery form that clarifies the terms of the coaching relationship, which typically comprises 10 sessions of work together. Sessions are 50 minutes and can be scheduled as half sessions (25 minutes) as well.
- The coaching relationship includes the following:
- Discovery session in person or via Google Meet
- Google Meet sessions
- One home visit is encourage, depending upon the location
- Upon completion of the 3 months, coaching can convert to another package or discontinue our coaching relationship.