Because 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. Understanding what is actually happening in those moments…
It might be. And if it is, treating it like a motivation problem could make it worse. Procrastination is usually treated as a motivation problem. The common solutions – consequences, deadlines, removing privileges, adding incentives, are all designed to increase the cost of not doing…
Executive Functioning, Anxiety, ADHD, or Perfectionism? Understanding What’s Actually Happening With Your Child You’ve done the research. You’ve read the articles. You’ve taken the online quizzes and compared the symptom lists. And you still aren’t sure. Is it ADHD? Is it anxiety? Is your child…
Because homework makes demands on several different brain systems at once, and when any one of them is struggling, the whole process can slows down or break down entirely. Most parents assume homework takes a long time because their child is distracted or not trying…
It depends. Are you scaffolding or are you enabling? Scaffolding Versus Enabling The most useful distinction when thinking about homework help is the difference between scaffolding and enabling. Scaffolding is temporary support that makes it possible for a child to do something they could not…
Time blindness is usually what’s going on. Most kids with executive functioning challenges or ADHD do not experience time the way their parents do. For a neurotypical person, time feels like it moves. Thirty minutes approaching a deadline produces a felt sense of urgency that…