Smart but Scattered
Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson, published by Guilford Publications on November 19, 2024, is a revised and updated second edition of a parent guide designed to assist families with children aged 4 to 12 who struggle with organization, focus, and emotional regulation. This edition includes new research, updated vignettes, and practical tools to help parents understand their child’s executive functioning strengths and weaknesses. With 328 pages, this guide aims to provide strategies for improving everyday routines and reducing stress for both parents and children.
Readers will find a comprehensive approach to addressing common challenges faced by children, including issues related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), time management, and emotional regulation. The book features handy questionnaires that allow parents to assess their child’s needs and offers proven strategies to enhance skills that may be lacking. Additionally, the new chapter on technology and the expanded school chapter provide valuable insights for navigating modern challenges. This edition serves as a resource for parents seeking to support their child’s development in a practical and informed manner.
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“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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