Many students who struggle with executive functioning skills forget to bring home all the things they will need to complete their homework. If your student struggles with this, ask her to try these suggestions so you can save trips back to school. Write it down. When writing an assignment on your planner or to do…
Author: Monte W. Davenport, Ph.D.
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Tips to Help Your Student Remember To Turn in Homework
There is nothing more frustrating than not turning in completed homework! Try these strategies to help your student remember.
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Once you have accepted that you are addicted to delay and you have committed to honoring your values instead of fighting the urge to procrastinate, then you can attack procrastination and win if using the following recommendations for addressing your needs.
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Act on Your Values to Overcome Procrastination
One way to address your procrastinating is to focus on your values and to reframe the tasks you’re putting off in terms of what’s important to you. For example, if you don’t value cleaning house (who does?), you will struggle to find the motivation to do it, and you’ll tend to put this task off….
Accepting the Urge to Procrastinate
In the case of procrastination, acceptance involves recognizing and agreeing that you are addicted to delay. Acceptance involves looking at the urge to procrastinate without judgment. By itself, the urge to procrastinate is neither bad nor good: it is just a response that happens because our brain is trying to protect us from dangerous and/or…
Taming “Strong Will”
“Strong Will” is what I call a special part of the strong-willed individual’s brain. He is a muscle man who says, “You can’t make me do anything!” The good news is that “Strong Will” can be persuaded if done so in a way that somehow acknowledges whatever control a determined individual has in a situation. In this article, Dr. Davenport outlines ways strong-willed individuals and their loved ones can tame “Strong Will”