Smart but Scattered : : the Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
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"4-to 13-year-olds" -- cover.
Introduction -- Part I: What makes your child smart but scattered -- How did such a smart kid end up so scattered? -- Identifying your child's strengths and weaknesses -- How your own executive skill strengths and weaknesses matter -- Matching the child to the task -- Part II: Laying a foundation that can help -- Ten principles for improving your child's executive skills -- Modifying the environment : A is for antecedent -- Teaching executive skills directly : B is for behavior -- Motivating your child to learn and use executive skills : C is for consequence -- Part III: Putting it all together -- Advance organizer -- Ready-made plans for teaching your child to complete daily routines -- Building response inhibition -- Enhancing working memory -- Improving emotional control -- Strengthening sustained attention -- Teaching task initiation -- Promoting planning and prioritizing -- Fostering organization -- Instilling time management -- Encouraging flexibility -- Increasing goal-directed persistence -- Cultivating metacognition -- When what you do is not enough -- Working with the school -- What's ahead?
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Useful book submitted by elenalibro on June 26, 2023, 3:52pm I found plenty of useful tips in the book. However, I admit this is the first book I am reading on the subject.
PUBLISHED
New York : Guilford Press, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781593859879
1593859872
9781593854454
1593854455
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Guare, Richard.
SUBJECTS
Parenting.
Executive ability in children.
Children -- Life skills guides.
Child development.
Parent and child.