You want your kid to have the skills to manage daily life and achieve their goals. How do you help them? Teach them executive function skills. Executive function ...

A reader of my last post agreed with the points made about self-regulation failure, but noted, “When the [procrastination] habit has been 'cemented,' things are not so simple.” Another reader wrote, ...

At 320+ pages, 7 Core Executive Functions in Children & Teens: Strategies for Emotional Regulation, Inhibition, Problem-Solving, Working Memory, and Motivation is an essential tool to help caregivers ...

Teenagers who want to work smarter, not harder (and any parent or clinician who wants to help them) will enjoy Focus and Thrive: Executive Functioning Strategies for Teens. Author Laurie Chaikind ...

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

The college application process is a critical time in an adolescent's life, marking a transition into greater independence and responsibility. As a parent and a college admissions expert, I understand ...

The Southport CoLAB, a resource providing quality education training for professionals, educators, and families to affect positive outcomes for people with language-based learning differences such as ...

Principal Ian Knox’s thoughtful opinion essay, “Kindergartners Are Struggling With Self-Regulation. How Principals Can Respond ” (July 8, 2025), centers on steps school leaders can take to respond ...

If you’ve heard the phrase “executive functioning” recently, it probably came up in the context of ADHD, a common neurobehavioral condition which affects a person’s ability to stay focused, maintain a ...

Our current brain structures have been with us for at least 35,000 years. But today’s work environment, filled with the pinging, whooshing, grabbing, greedy solicitations of digital media, is unlike ...