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The Conscious Parent's Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder: A Mindful Approach for Helping Your child Focus and Learn
Help your child feel confident and capable!
If your child has been given a diagnosis of executive functioning disorder, you may be feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. You want your child to be able to master certain basic skills, such as being organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. But what if your child is having trouble with one or all of these skills? With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder , you'll learn how to take a relationship-centered approach to parenting as you help improve your child's executive functioning skills:
Conscious parenting is about being present with your children and taking the time to understand how to help them flourish. With the strategies and advice in this guide, you and your child will build sustainable bonds, develop positive behaviors, and improve executive functioning skills for life. And you'll find that conscious parenting helps create a calm and mindful atmosphere for the whole family, while helping your child feel competent, successful, and healthy.
If your child has been given a diagnosis of executive functioning disorder, you may be feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. You want your child to be able to master certain basic skills, such as being organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. But what if your child is having trouble with one or all of these skills? With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Executive Functioning Disorder , you'll learn how to take a relationship-centered approach to parenting as you help improve your child's executive functioning skills:
Conscious parenting is about being present with your children and taking the time to understand how to help them flourish. With the strategies and advice in this guide, you and your child will build sustainable bonds, develop positive behaviors, and improve executive functioning skills for life. And you'll find that conscious parenting helps create a calm and mindful atmosphere for the whole family, while helping your child feel competent, successful, and healthy.
- GenresParenting
240 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2016
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About the author
Rebecca Branstetter
19 books8 followersRebecca Branstetter, Ph.D., is a school psychologist, speaker, and author on a mission to help children thrive by supporting school psychologists, educators, and families.
She is the founder of The Thriving School Psychologist Collective, an online community dedicated to improving mental health and learning supports in public schools, as well as the co-creator of the “Make It Stick Parenting” course, which provides parents tools to build their child’s social-emotional learning, and the “Peace of Mind Parenting” course to support families during distance learning.
A sought-after speaker and national media expert, Rebecca’s expertise in supporting school psychologists, parents, teachers, and students in the public school system has appeared in various publications, including Huffington Post, NPR, CNN, Education.com, and Parents Magazine.
She and her husband are proud parents to two daughters and two furry husky dogs in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information on Rebecca’s work, visit rebeccabranstetter.com.
She is the founder of The Thriving School Psychologist Collective, an online community dedicated to improving mental health and learning supports in public schools, as well as the co-creator of the “Make It Stick Parenting” course, which provides parents tools to build their child’s social-emotional learning, and the “Peace of Mind Parenting” course to support families during distance learning.
A sought-after speaker and national media expert, Rebecca’s expertise in supporting school psychologists, parents, teachers, and students in the public school system has appeared in various publications, including Huffington Post, NPR, CNN, Education.com, and Parents Magazine.
She and her husband are proud parents to two daughters and two furry husky dogs in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information on Rebecca’s work, visit rebeccabranstetter.com.
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March 30, 2021
I actually liked this one quite a bit. It really felt like the author understood not only that parents and their children who have executive functioning disorders have unique struggles but that those struggles are surmountable without constantly checking up on and tending to them to make sure they are doing what needs to be done. It covers several different areas of executive function, all separated into chapters and broken down into the ways it affects your child and how to deal with it. There were a couple spots where the author offered questionable advice, like buying a duplicate set of textbooks to keep at home if your kid can't remember what textbooks they need. Not only are textbooks insanely expensive, but I feel like this would enable a child to not feel like they need to be responsible for remembering on their own. But really, most of what I found in here was very helpful, and very validating. Probably the best parenting book I have read so far, even if it is niche.
May 5, 2019
I was reading this for my Executive Function Research & Advocacy website research and not as a parent (though I am on), but I found it super excellent and have been recommending it to lots of parents in my ADHD & Autism support groups whose kids are struggling in school. There is a ton of great, easy to understand advice in here that can make huge differences in kids' school success!
May 22, 2021
Amazing book. I wish I had known about it sooner. Not only does it educate the reader on the WHAT, but it gives practical advice on HOW to improve executive function for each age group. Good for parents and teachers.
August 20, 2022
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Max’s Rating: 9/10
For parents of ND kids this is a really good book. It gives wonderful suggestions for improving executive functioning and it breaks them down into areas so you can skip around to address your child’s (or your own) areas of weaknesses.
Max’s Rating: 9/10
For parents of ND kids this is a really good book. It gives wonderful suggestions for improving executive functioning and it breaks them down into areas so you can skip around to address your child’s (or your own) areas of weaknesses.
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