Ensuring Students Have Executive Functioning Skills
But I just can’t do it all…
Managing life is hard. Keeping up with schoolwork, chores, extracurricular activities, and a social life can be stressful for children, teens, and young adults. They may find that completing a task so they can go out with their friends to be too daunting, or school itself to be too demanding when paired with at home responsibilities. This can then cause them to exhibit avoidance behaviors. They may spend more time doing a homework assignment, so they don’t have to clean their room, or simply just avoid the task all together because it is too overwhelming. They may also find it hard to figure out how not only to start a task, but how to follow through and finish a it, or simply manage the task itself, which is where our executive functioning skills come in.
Executive functioning skills help us manage these tasks and our environment in a way that makes us feel confident in our ability to complete things rather than just feeling anxious or stressed out by it. Managing your time so you don’t feel rushed, keeping an organized space to minimize stress, being able to not only begin a task, but finish it, using a planner to keep track of your time, and so much more are all executive functioning skills and techniques that we need in order to be successful in life. If we do not have age-appropriate skills, then everyday life can become stressful. We may feel as if we always have too much to do and never enough time to do it, but if you have strong executive functioning skills, not only completing the task at hand, but completing it well will be much easier. This can then also prevent anxiety, emotional regulation issues, and avoidance behaviors that can prevent them from reaching their fullest potential in life, and the Support for Students Growth Center is equip with the tools needed to help them develop these much-needed skills.
At SSGC, we provide the social, behavioral, educational, emotional, and executive functioning skills children, teens, young adults, and their families need for a happy and successful life in and out of school settings. Our team of professionals offers individualized and family coaching/counseling and social skills groups to help teach skills such as how use their executive functioning skills to ensure parents do not have to worry that their kids will be unable to make and maintain a wonderful life on their own. So, if your child is struggling with skills like the ones listed above and much more, the SSGC is equipped with the experience and tools to help.
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Dr. Eric J. Nach, Ph.D., M.Ed., A.S.D.C., is a Developmental and Behavioral Specialist who specializes in Autism, ADHD and related disorders. Dr. Nach is the founder of the Support for Students Growth Center and College Life Skills Program where he and his team of professional’s help develop the Emotional Maturity, Executive Functioning, Life Skill and Social Abilities of children, teens, young adults and college students and those high school students preparing for college.
