The Self-Regulated Kid:
Expert Tips for Raising Capable Kids in a Fast Paced, Distracted World
Expert Tips to Grow Your Child’s Independence and Executive Function Skills
-For parents of students in grades K-4-

"The single greatest predictor of academic success is executive function. 
It even trumps IQ."  -John Medina, Brain Rules  

The Self-Regulated Kid: 

If there is one thing I have learned in over 20 years of working with students, teachers, and schools it is this:  ​ ​ ​


Here's what parents can do about it. 
​The Self-Regulated Kid empowers parents to sow the seeds of self-regulation and executive function at home, when young kids are excited about parental involvement and fun, helpful opportunities abound. This consult explores a range of strategies and home routines that help pro-active parents understand kids' self-regulation skills and make a helpful, responsive plan.

This parent consultation empowers parents of kids in grades K-4 to sow the seeds of self regulation skills through ordinary routines and interactions. When opportunities to make a big difference abound. It is designed for pro-active parents who appreciate ​their critical role in developing EF skills during the early years. Parents receive a variety of useful handouts and other materials to use immediately.

​This consult is for parents of students in grades 1-4 who are interested in learning specific, fun, developmentally appropriate tools, techniques, and home routines that help the whole family get organized. By implementing a handful of tools and strategies over time, the idea is to build organization, pro-actively. The outcomes will have good effects on school and home vibes.

This engaging, hour long consult introduces a 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
  • Learn strategies and techniques for more responsive and productive homework support
  • ​Make a pro-active plan to support your child’s healthy growth and development.​

​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.


Why this parent consult when kids are still young?
  • This practical seminar empowers parents to sow the seeds of executive function at home, when kids are young and still happy about parental involvement - when opportunities to make a big difference abound.
  • One of the more frequent inquiries I receive is from parents of middle and high school students whose child is experiences executive function challenges. Unlike remediating math or other academic skills, working on self-regulation in middle or high school is a more complex, time consuming, and difficult process. This stage in life is late in the game, which makes successful intervention more challenging.​​

This engaging, 90-minute consult introduces a program that helps parents:
  • Foster routines, habits and home environments that help kids regulate behavior and emotions
  • Understand a simple model of executive function that enables more responsive, helpful parenting
  • Apply a range of helpful learning and organizational techniques: high and low tech
  • Recognize the significant impact of screen time on self-regulation and behavior inhibition
  • Collaborate with teachers to build home-school partnerships​
  • Make a pro-active plan to support your child’s healthy growth and development.​
Details:
  • Who: Parents of toddlers through middle school
  • What: 60 minute, 1:1 or family consultation.
  • Where: Innovative Learning Services' office location, 59 Bayview Road, Kentfield, CA.
  • Investment: $175.00
  • Scheduling: Check availability and contact Dan on this page
  • A range of useful materials are included.
Combining 20 years of experience in K-12 schools with expertise in learning disabilities, ADHD, executive function and child development, Dan Leibowitz, M.Ed., M.Sped., C.E.T. offers proven advice for parents raising capable kids in our hurried, distracted world. 
Scientists who study executive function skills refer to them as the biological foundation for school readiness. Acquiring the early building  blocks of these skills is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the early childhood years. The lifelong importance of these skills and their effect on learning makes it clear that parents need to  be aware of what we now understand about  the development of executive function skills, the experiences that foster the healthy emergence of these skills, and the conditions that appear to undermine them.
 "I think that we should be focusing on helping children get better at these skills early. I’m hesitant to use the word teach, because when you say teach, people have this image of children sitting like little college students in their seats with somebody lecturing at them.  Promoting these skills should involve weaving them naturally into everyday activities in school and at home in playful and fun ways!"
​-Adele Diamond, PhD
The brain, like any muscle, grows with practice.

The Self-Regulated Kid teaches parents how to exercise it 
through a set of age-appropriate strategies and household routines.
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