Twenty-first-century parents are extremely concerned about their children’s technology use. There has been a recent spate of news reports about parents who are concerned that their children are addicted to […]

Social-Emotional Skills Workshop In this four-session workshop, students will be introduced to four social-emotional skills: self-care, self-control, self-awareness, and flexibility. Our Gamer Guides will focus on developing your child’s independent [...]

Building Time Management Skills Time Management is a difficult skill for nearly every child (and most adults) to properly master, and yet very few schools actually teach it at all. [...]

Building Working Memory Skills Working Memory is one of the most important cognitive skills for every child to master. This "memory-in-action" is what gives kids the ability to remember the [...]

Study Skills Workshop Knowing how to study is one of the most important skills a child can learn. Unfortunately, most schools just don't take the time to teach it. In [...]

Building Skills With Minecraft Building Skills With Minecraft is a home-based program that transforms playing Minecraft into an opportunity for developing executive functions and social and emotional learning skills. This [...]

The most frequent concern voiced by parents in my clinical practice is that their kids spend too much time on their screens. This worry is particularly noticeable amongst the parents […]

Many children with mild to modest symptoms of ADHD are not identified with ADHD until they reach middle school. As younger children, their energy and occasional inattentiveness were attributed by […]

In the 1960s and 1970s, what we now call ADHD was referred to as “Hyperkinetic Impulse Disorder.” At that time, it was believed that the ratio of boys to girls […]

Executive functioning skills are the essential capacities that help kids make better decisions, learn from their mistakes, and set goals. However, these skills often aren’t as fully developed in children […]