Get real about executive functioning skills at home

with seth perler

Seth Perler covers the real topics around executive functioning when it comes to helping your child at home with their learning and everyday life skills. We titled this talk GET REAL WHEN IT COMES TO EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SKILL AT HOME. This talk is based on the questions you want to be answered. Seth will jump on the call to review the most pressing issues our community is facing right now. Join us for this call or leave your questions with us and we will review them during our Q + A time after the call.

You might be wondering what type of executive functioning concerns are we talking about…well here’s a list of topics we are offering to our community to find out what the topic 3 concerns are right now when supporting your child at home:

1. Planning problems: Don’t use a planner to effectively track schoolwork or other responsibilities. They hate planners!!

2. Preparation problems: Often unprepared for the school day at home.

3. Motivation problems: Trouble self-starting, procrastinating, appearing unmotivated, don’t know where or how to start.

4. Time management problems: An unrealistic perception of how much time and energy is needed for homework, studying, chores, responsibilities, getting out of the house in the morning, etc. Wait until the last minute with important deadlines or miss them altogether.

5. Attention problems: Can’t focus or concentrate on one thing to completion, gets off task, derailed, easily distracted.

6. Takes-a-long-time problems: Because of habits that waste time and because of processing issues, these kids can take a very long time to do homework (as well as take care of other responsibilities).

7. Resist your help. Resist most help.

8. Problems reflecting accurately: Unrealistic perception of how they are doing in school. Your child doesn’t understand their challenges well enough to know what to do about them.

9. Get behind in school and the vicious cycle gets a bit worse with each passing semester.

10. They have excellent excuses, know how to wear you down.

11. Advocacy problems: They do not self-advocate effectively, don’t ask teachers for help early enough or at all.

12. Overwhelmed by the demands of school, leading to denial or anxiety about school, and avoid dealing with it effectively.

Watch and Enjoy!

Executive Functioning Journal

This 8-page journal is coming soon!

• Executive Functioning recap

• Seth’s takeaways and links to recommended videos

• Susan Schenk, Occupational Therapist, answers frequently asked questions

• Checklist to support you