I WISH SOMEONE TOLD ME THIS YEARS AGO!
A Parent’s Roadmap for
Supporting Executive Functioning
Navigate executive functioning challenges with practical tips and insights for empowering your neurodivergent child.
You get evidence-based and
neurodiversity-affirming solutions
to support and foster growth and independence
in your child.
Normally $297
Today $97
What is Executive Functioning?
It's the part of our brain responsible for:
Decision Making
Problem Solving
Strategic Planning
Organization
It is the ability to direct oneself to choose a goal,
to create the steps to achieve the goal,
and sustain the effort to complete the steps to reach the end result.
And much more.....
What are the Executive Function Skills?
Emotional Regulation
Inhibition and Impulse Control
Attention
Self Awareness
Working Memory
Planning and Prioritizing
Task Initiation
Organization
Time Management
Cognitive Flexibility
Raising a child with executive function challenges is not easy. What if it could be easier?
In just a few hours...
You will have enough knowledge about Executive Functioning to be able to improve your child's life immediately!
You can have a calmer, more peaceful home with less fighting, tension and drama - because you will be able to communicate more effectively with your child.
Discover what causes the overwhelm, shutdown, lack of motivation and effort (and no, it's NOT laziness!)
You will save $1,000s on ineffective coaching and counseling because you can target exactly the type of help your child needs.
You will be able to have productive and effective conversations with your child's teachers.
And most importantly.... you will finally understand the reasons behind so many of the problems, stress and chaos that you and your child have been experiencing.
Solutions come from knowledge.
Does this sound familiar?
Your child struggles to do daily tasks and activities.
Your child has trouble starting or completing homework, tasks or chores.
Your child gets overwhelmed easily and shuts down.
Your child forgets to turn in homework they've already done.
Your child is impatient and gets frustrated easily.
Your child has difficulty controlling their emotions.
Your child struggles socially.
Your child's peers are able to do things that your child can not do.
Your child has difficulty learning from mistakes.
Your child struggles with self-control.
Your child has difficulty remembering instructions.
Your child struggles with organization, planning and prioritizing.
When someone asks your teen "What are your goals?" do they freeze or shut down?
Do others give you advice like "She just needs more discipline." or "You just need to let him fail more."
Does your child underperform in school even though they have a high intelligence level?
Their BEHAVIOR is COMMUNICATING something to you.
DID YOU KNOW?
Weak or under-developed executive function skills can cause all of these behaviors in kids.
Most schools are not set up to recognize that weaknesses in these skills may be causing negative behaviors.
This causes kids to feel shame.
It's up to the PARENTS to investigate, analyze and decode the negative behavior.
Be the HERO in your child's story and help them CHANGE their FUTURE.
You can uncover their superpowers!
Who is this course for?
This course is for ANYONE who cares for a child or young adult, ages 8-25, who wants to
IDENTIFY, RECOGNIZE & UNDERSTAND
what causes some of the negative behaviors they are experiencing with their kids everyday.
GAINING INSIGHT will enable you to better manage these behaviors instead of reacting to them.
But there's a BONUS!
This course is geared toward parents, but it's really for ANYONE who wants to improve their own life.
Knowing about executive functioning skills will not only help your child, but it will also help YOU in your own life.
It will help you understand friends, family members or co-workers better and enable you to IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS with others in your life who may struggle with these skills.
Common myths:
These skills will develop naturally over time.
In many kids, these skills develop as they grow up. BUT NOT for everyone. When the problems are severe, the worst thing you can do is downplay the problem and assume they will grow out of it.
My child will learn executive functioning skills in school.
While some teachers are trained in executive function skills, many are not. Even the ones who are trained have very little time to teach these skills to their students. Many schools give their students a planner and think that this is teaching them EF skills.
My child just needs more discipline:
More and stricter discipline is not going to solve the problem of a lack of skills and abilities. Punishment is not an effective solution for lack of skills.
Behavior charts, checklists and planners are effective tools for teaching executive functioning:
Behavior charts, checklists and planners are TOOLS. Using tools requires underlying skills and abilities. If your child lacks basic self awareness, time perception and organizational skills, these tools will not work.
My child will learn these skills if they experience the consequences of their actions:
There is no benefit in lettings these kids stumble and stumble and repeatedly fail if they do not have the ability to succeed. They aren't going to learn these skills from continued failure.
My child just needs to go to counseling or therapy for the behavior issues:
Maybe. But talk therapy is very often not effective for kids with big weaknesses in these skills. Talk therapy and counseling requires strong self awareness and most kids with these deficits do not get much benefit out of it. In fact, this type of therapy can often cause more anxiety.
THE COURSE:
The Executive Functioning Playbook
for Parents
A comprehensive guide to understanding executive functioning and practical tools for parents to support their child’s growth
What is included in this course?
This course is presented in a series of "go at your own pace" recorded videos.
MY NAME IS LARA
I'm an Executive Functioning Coach with a focus on Parent Education.
I created this course to give parents the knowledge that I desperately wish someone had given to me 15 years ago.
I'm a single mom raising a brilliant neurodivergent kid on my own. I've spent the last 15 years learning lessons the hard way. Both of our lives suffered from not having the information you will learn in this course.
Don't make the mistakes I made.
I expected him to be able to do tasks just because they were age appropriate. He couldn't.
I was told that he just needed to suffer more consequences and then his behavior would change. It didn't.
If kids don't have the underlying skills and abilities to do the tasks they are being asked to do, you can't reward or punish a child into having that skill.
I got the constant calls from school because of his behavior. It took me too long to figure out what was causing the negative behavior.
My son struggled socially and I didn't connect the dots that poor executive functioning also leads to problems with friendships.
I spent more than $10,000 on coaches and counselors and therapists only to find that it made things worse - these care providers were too high of a level for him without the foundational skills necessary for effective help.
WHEN YOU COMPLETE THIS COURSE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Understand how executive functioning affects daily life.
Identify your child's skill weaknesses so you can target what needs to be improved.
Advocate for your child by knowing the language to use when working with teachers, doctors and care providers.
Decode and recognize the triggers for negative behavior.
Catch the meltdowns before they start.
Identify the best environment for your child to learn.
Recognize the difference between enabling and accommodating.
Avoid many of the situations that cause your child to feel anxiety and shame.
Understand why our kids have trouble learning and remembering things when they are stressed.
Understand the role of doctors, executive function coaches, psychologists/therapists, IEPs, 504 plans, SLPs, OTs and more..
Create your child's "dream team" by targeting the most effective support solutions.
Build your child's resilience and confidence with stronger executive functioning skills.
Help your older kids learn to manage their emotions by recognizing and communicating when they are reaching burnout and overwhelm.
And so much more!
