When should parents seek help for executive functioning problems? When what they are doing is not working and has not been working for long enough that it is affecting their child's daily life.
They address different parts of the same problem, and for many kids, both matter.
This question is interesting because helping and enabling are not opposites. They start from the same place, the same love, the same instinct to support a child who is struggling.
By the end of a school day, the systems responsible for regulating behavior, managing transitions, and tolerating frustration have very little left.
For kids with executive functioning challenges, small tasks often do not feel as small as they appear. What looks like an overreaction to a minor request is often related to something that has been building underneath.
It might be. And if it is, treating it like a motivation problem could make it worse.