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Executive Function Skills - 8 Video Series

These videos are part of a series on helping children strengthen their executive functioning skills. Emotional control and regulation is an executive functioning skill children must learn. In these videos, parents, teachers, and other caregivers will learn how to teach children how to develop emotional control. Emotional control is The ability to manage your emotions and behavior aligned with the demands of the situation.

Parents and caregivers will learn 10 different strategies to help children manage their emotions, develop coping skills, relax and calm themselves. 

These videos will be helpful for parents with children who have ADHD, anxiety, OCD, ODD or who struggle with emotional regulation and control.

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Helping Kids Develop Emotional Control

In this video parents and caregivers will learn 10 different strategies to help children manage their emotions, develop coping skills, relax and calm themselves.

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Helping Kids Develop Impulse Control

Impulse control is the ability to stop one's behavior at the appropriate time, both verbally and physically In this video parents and caregivers will learn strategies to help children manage their impulses, develop coping skills, relax and calm themselves.

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Helping Kids To Have Flexible Thinking

Flexible thinking is the ability to move freely from one situation to the next, successfully adapting one's thinking and emotions to respond appropriately to the task at hand. In this video parents and caregivers will learn strategies to help children develop flexible thinking.

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Helping Kids Develop Self Monitoring Skills

Self-monitoring is the ability to monitor one's own performance and to measure it against some standard of what is needed or expected. This is also called metacognition. In this video parents and caregivers will learn strategies to help children develop self-monitoring skills

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Helping Kids With Task Initiation Skills t Name

Task initiation is the ability to start a task or activity and to independently create one's ideas, responses, or problem-solving strategies to achieve the desired outcome. The opposite of procrastination. In this video parents and caregivers will learn strategies to help children develop task initiation skills. This video is part of a series on helping children strengthen their executive functioning skills.

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Helping Kids Develop Working Memory Skills

Working memory is our ability to cognitively hold and retrieve information for the purpose of completing a task. In this video parents and caregivers will learn strategies to help children develop a strong working memory.

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Helping Kids Plan and Prioritize

Planning and prioritizing is the ability to manage current and future tasks, and demands, and set and achieve goals. In this video parents and caregivers will learn strategies to help children plan and prioritize.

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Helping Kids Learn to Organize

Organization is the ability to put things in order physically and mentally. This includes physical spaces, personal belongings, as well as cognitive items. In this video parents and caregivers will learn strategies to help children learn how to organize.

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