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Smart But Scattered: The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

by Peg Dawson

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Building executive skills in everyday life

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Building executive skills in everyday life

Peg Dawson’s guide frames organization, focus, impulse control, and emotional regulation as executive skills that children can develop with adult support. The second edition offers a way to identify a child’s strengths and areas needing support, then connect those skills to routines at home and school. Updated vignettes and a new chapter on technology broaden the discussion, while an expanded school chapter addresses that setting in greater depth. Each skill includes “A Good Place to Start” suggestions, and printable tools are available to download. The book is aimed at supporting children ages 4 to 13 and the adults helping them manage everyday challenges.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents and caregivers of children ages 4–13 who want practical support with organization, focus, or emotional regulation.
  • Educators interested in executive skills and children’s routines at school.
  • Adults seeking printable tools and skill-by-skill suggestions for everyday use.

Themes

Executive skills in childhoodOrganization and attentionImpulse and emotion regulationHome and school routinesTechnology and children’s skills

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Book overview

All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration--but some do it much more often than others. If you have a "smart but scattered" child, take heart. This encouraging guide is grounded in research on the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 13-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. The expert authors guide you to identify your child's executive strengths and weaknesses, boost skills that are lacking, fix everyday routines that don't work, and reduce everyone's stress. Including new research, new and updated vignettes, and "A Good Place to Start" suggestions for each skill, the revised and updated second edition features a new chapter on technology and a greatly expanded school chapter. Helpful practical tools can be downloaded and printed.

See also the authors' Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults).

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