Smart but scattered : the revolutionary executive skills approach to helping kids reach their potential

Smart but scattered The revolutionary executive skills approach to helping kids reach their potential

Peg Dawson

Book - 2025

"Description: All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration--but some do it much more often than others. With over 425,000 in print, this encouraging, bestselling parent guide is now in a revised and updated second edition. The authors explain the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 12-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. Handy questionnaires help parents home in on their own child's executive strengths and weaknesses. Armed with a better understanding of their "smart but scattered" kid, readers can use proven strategies to 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 second edition features a new chapter on technology and a greatly expanded school chapter. Readers can download and print a wealth of practical tools. -- Keywords: functioning, functions, self-help, parenting guides, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, children, disorganized, time management, procrastination, emotion regulation, problems, learning disabilities, tantrums, neurodiverse, neurodiversity, schools, behavioral, underachievers, academic"--

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Subjects
Parenting.
Executive ability in children.
Children > Life skills guides.
Child development.
Parent and child.
Published
New York : The Guilford Press [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Peg Dawson (author)
Other Authors
Richard Guare (author), Colin Guare
Edition
Second edition
Physical Description
vi, 328 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781462555741
9781462554591
  • Introduction
  • Part I. What Makes Your Child Smart But Scattered
  • 1. How Did Such a Smart Kid End Up So Scattered?
  • 2. Identifying Your Child's Executive Skill Strengths and Challenges
  • 3. How Your Own Executive Skill Strengths and Challenges Matter
  • Part II. Laying a Foundation That Can Help
  • 4. Nine Principles for Improving Your Child's Executive Skills
  • 5. Modifying the Environment: A Is for Antecedent
  • 6. Teaching Executive Skills Directly: B Is for Behavior
  • 7. Motivating Your Child to Learn and Use Executive Skills: C Is for Consequence
  • Part III. Putting It All Together
  • 8. Advance Organizer
  • 9. Ready-Made Plans for Teaching Your Child to Complete Daily Routines
  • 10. Building Response Inhibition
  • 11. Enhancing Working Memory
  • 12. Improving Emotional Control
  • 13. Encouraging Flexibility
  • 14. Strengthening Sustained Attention
  • 15. Teaching Task Initiation
  • 16. Promoting Planning and Prioritizing
  • 17. Fostering Organization
  • 18. Instilling Time Management
  • 19. Increasing Goal-Directed Persistence
  • 20. Cultivating Metacognition
  • 21. When What You Do Is Not Enough
  • 22. A Brief Look at Technology
  • 23. The Role of Schools in Executive Skill Development
  • Parting Thoughts
  • Resources
  • Index
  • About the Authors
Review by Library Journal Review

The audio version of 2009's Smart but Scattered by the coauthors of Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents posits that the reason that intelligent, motivated youngsters succeed at certain things (e.g., soccer) but struggle with others (e.g., cleaning their rooms) relates to executive function-those cognitive processes that regulate delayed gratification, planning, working memory, and more. Embedded PDFs contain diagnostic components to help parents assess any lopsidedness in their children's executive functions; once problems are identified and placed within the rubric of the parents' own cognitive skills, realistic expectations can be put into play. -Susan Ericksen provides a clear, sympathetic reading. The concerned Tough presents a condensation of the issues facing contemporary American educators. Though the material is well written, listeners will soon tire of track after track of different schools' innovations and approaches. Tough recounts the struggles and achievements of giant school systems (e.g., Chicago's), elite institutions, and innovators like YAP (Youth Advocate Programs), which creates "substitute or supplemental family structures for children who don't have them." Other than advocating attachment parenting, Tough's focus is more on research and funding, obscuring identification of ways parents can help children to develop the titular grit and character. Dan John Miller provides an effective reading. VERDICT Dawson and Guare's interesting work attempts to strike a balance between providing informational background and acting as a how-to manual; the result is not enough of either. This title is best suited to motivated, college-educated readers. Listeners interested in a survey course about the plight of the educational system can do no better than Tough's book, but caveat emptor-it is not a how-to volume.-Douglas C. Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Middletown (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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