This book is a wonderful resource for parents or anyone who works with or wants to support children who need help with Executive Functioning Skills. It begins with a thoughtful and easy to understand description and understanding of who might struggle and why their brain is functioning differently than others.

The interest inventory is a wonderful way for families and children to discuss what things excite them and would help motivate them during the activities. The activities are easy to set up and complete with basic household items. I can see myself using many at school to support students as well.

Adding this book to my amazon wishlist!

A helpful, detailed breakdown of executive functioning and activities that may help kids improve! The level of detail is especially beneficial.

Executive Functioning Activities is a wonderful, easy to use book for both parents and educators. The books is nicely laid out with an easy to read explanation to parents of what executive functioning is and how it affects children. I especially love the "key takeaways" at the end of each chapter. This is a nice touch to sum up each section. The activities are simple and easy to implement. The duration of each activity is very manageable and I feel that even though this book is geared towards children ages 4-12, they could easily be adapted for older students. Overall this is an excellent resource that I intend to use for both my classroom and my own child. Thank you to Rockridge Press for this advanced readers copy.

I did not read this book in its entirety. I did read enough that I could put some of the practical ideas to use. I will recommend we purchase this book for our middle school teaching team and make its contents a topic of discussion for future PLCs.

This is exactly what I needed for my youngest child. The activities in it are fun and effective. The information is useful for parents to understand why their child is behaving the way they are. I’ll be adding it to our home library.

The perfect resource just in time for school! I have middle school students with EF struggles who will benefit from these activities.

I have read many books on how the brain works/executive functioning/emotional regulation due to my adoptive daughter having FASD.

I’m so thankful Melissa wrote this book and it’s so informative and explains executive functioning so well I learned so much. I love the activities and my daughter was eager to go along with them which never happens!!

The activities make me realize just how hard it is sometimes for my daughter.

I wish the world would understand executive functioning better.

Executive Functioning Activities for kids 4-12 is perfect for teaching self control, time management, improving attention span, task initiation, practice, planning and prioritizing. All these things are important for school success and overall student well-being. Almost all children need support and guidance on building executive functioning skills and games that can be implemented at home teach valuable skills that transfer to all areas of home and school life.

This book came in at the right moment, right before starting school. I’ve perused several books with educational games (emotional, social, executive functioning, manners), but this one has the activities so well traced and explained.
In an accessible way, short and comprehensive, each game is set with a goal, supplies, tips and discussions. You will find relevant games for your child (4-12 years old, but I think you can apply some of them under 4 yearsold) aimed to mastering his/hers impulse, training the memory, managing emotions, improving attention, startung tasks, planning and organizing, being flexible.
The book is beneficial to teachers, parents, counselors, anyone working with children.

THIS IS AMAZING!!! As an EF teacher, I love how the lessons plans were broken down into type of skill and specific goals addressed. I cannot wait to do so many of these activities with my students! Also, these are great worksheets to send home to parents as they can easily be accessible at home.

I think this would be an excellent resource for teachers of 4-12 year olds, and for teachers of students with additional needs (especially those with ADHD or ASD). The book is separated into lots of different themes with various tasks that are well-structured and easily digestible for practitioners, so you could include them in various lesson plans or structure a whole session around them if you were working with a student 1:1. In the same way, I think this book would be helpful for parents because you can pick and choose activities based on the needs of your child. I would highly recommend picking this book up.