Coaching Services for Parents
Raising Capable Kids: 25 Years of Expert Insights from an Educational Consultant,
Learning Specialist, and Father of Two Tween Boys
Raising Capable Kids: 25 Years of Expert Insights from an Educational Consultant,
Learning Specialist, and Father of Two Tween Boys
As parents, the most important organization to which we belong is our home. Maintaining a smoothly running home (or homes) requires communication, decision-making, and helpful routines. The routines we implement -by choice or by default- affect every aspect of our kids' lives.
I spent the first half of my career supporting kids and teens in becoming more efficient, organized, and confident learners. I'm refocusing the second half of my career on leveraging everything I've learned to coach parents of younger children in ways that help them accomplish these outcomes in a more DIY manner, early on, rather than hiring a executive function coach for their child at a later stage in the game.
The focus of this coaching relationship is to help parents understand and implement more helpful homework and related supports/household routines. This can be an equally effective, more cost efficient, and proactive way to support your child than scheduling weekly session with an executive function coach down the road. It also takes into account the tremendous impact of the home environment in which a child is raised. Yes, there can be and often is a neurological component to EF challenges, but there is much that we, as parents, can do, especially in the early years, to mitigate issues and set everyone up for success. Most sessions are for parents, but there can be opportunities to loop your child into certain conversations and/or trainings.
Raising Capable Kids allows parents to take practical, pro-active measures that help them:
The focus of this coaching relationship is to help parents understand and implement more helpful homework and related supports/household routines. This can be an equally effective, more cost efficient, and proactive way to support your child than scheduling weekly session with an executive function coach down the road. It also takes into account the tremendous impact of the home environment in which a child is raised. Yes, there can be and often is a neurological component to EF challenges, but there is much that we, as parents, can do, especially in the early years, to mitigate issues and set everyone up for success. Most sessions are for parents, but there can be opportunities to loop your child into certain conversations and/or trainings.
Raising Capable Kids allows parents to take practical, pro-active measures that help them:
- Understand simple, actionable models of attention and executive function related to learning, organization, and social skills/development
- Support learning, attention challenges (LDs, ADHD, etc) with greater understanding and preparedness
- Reflect: how are your executive function skills, or lack-thereof, impacting your family's quality of life and your chid's self-regulation (focus/attention)
- Consider and modify environmental factors that impact your child's self-regulation: sleep, screen time, diet, exercise, unsupervised free time, and stress
- Identify what's working in your home environment and areas that need improvement
- Enact a roadmap for change -implement more helpful supports and routines that foster your child's self-regulation, organization, and agency
- Communicate with your child (and spouse/partner) in ways that enable cooperation, while reducing drama and conflict
- Collaborate with teachers in ways that support your child's individual needs
- For divorced parents: co-parent/collaborate in ways that support your child's executive function skills -expert advice from a fellow co-parent and primary care-giver of two sons, ages 11 and 13.
This coaching relationship begins during the early elementary years. Fostering helpful habits at this timely stage can mitigate challenges that, during adolescence, are more complex and difficult to manage.
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