Smart But Scattered Teens is an insightful guide that leverages key principles from the business world to help teens become more organized, stay focused, and manage their impulses effectively. If you're a parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, this book offers an alternative to micromanaging and ineffective punishments.
This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills—fundamental brain-based abilities necessary for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions.
Executive skills experts Drs. Richard Guare and Peg Dawson, joined by Colin Guare, offer step-by-step strategies to help your teen reach their potential now and in the future, while strengthening your relationship.
Helpful worksheets and forms are available for download, designed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size, making it easy to implement the strategies provided in the book.