Late, Lost and Unprepared
A parent’s Guide to Helping children with Executive Functioning
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Is your child chronically late turning in papers? Does she show up for soccer practice without her soccer bag? Say things without thinking? Read something and forget what he read? Wait until the last minute and then get caught short of time to complete tasks? Written by two clinical psychologists, Late, Lost, and Unprepared is a practical, down-to-earth guide for parents of children and adolescents who have difficulty with these skills-planning and organization, self-monitoring, impulse control, working memory, and initiating tasks.
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Wisdom to Share
The ability to begin working or get started on a task is important for school functioning, negotiating the daily routine, and maintaining social relationships.
Building skills can be done with help from parents, teachers, tutors, therapists, and other important adults.
Teens who cannot keep up with the rapid fire rate of communication and have a hard time “reading between the lines” often face increasing social difficulties.
Infants and very young children “live in the moment” and push for immediate gratification of their needs and wants
To set realistic expectations for our children, it is important to understand the typical, or expected, development of the executive functions.
The executive functions are a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal.
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