Is your child or teen’s temper getting the best of you? Here’s help and hope!

An important part of good conversation is active listening. These strategies can help your child develop this skill.

How parents can help children and teens can keep up friendships by starting up conversations.

Help your child learn how to ask questions to build friendships.

These strategies can help you help your child find a good friend and be a good friend.

These easy-to-use strategies can help you help your child make friends.

Some children with executive functioning challenges also suffer from a handicap that isolates them from others. Boys and girls with social cognition weaknesses seem immature and seem to lack good judgment at times. They may be less sensitive to the needs of others. As a result, they are rejected by their peers, and their social relationships seem “out of synch.” Read this series of articles to find out how you can help your child or student.

Help your child or teen develop better friendships through self-disclosure.

Timing is important to social interactions.  Some children with executive functioning difficulties impulsively act before thinking, while others struggle to flexibly transition to the next task.  Both of these timing issues require the help of a patient adult. Impulsivity Acting before they think is a common trait of youngsters with executive functioning problems.  This causes…

Children should understand disagreements are to be expected among friends. People cannot be expected to be the same in their thinking and actions, and so we all disagree at times. Knowing how to react to those disagreements is the key to keeping a friendship intact. Some children must be taught that getting angry, yelling, or using bad language is not the way to keep a friendship alive.

The child with executive functioning challenges may struggle to understand when someone is confused by what he says or does. He may miss the looks of misunderstanding on another’s face.