This is EXACTLY what I want to do this summer! 😊

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I hear that from people when there's literally no one else around. A bus driver once said it to me when I asked if I could stay on the bus while he turned around to complete his route. He was like "if I do it for you I'd have to do it for everyone." There was no one else there 😅😅😅

Nice video 👍

This straight talk is really appreciated. Amazing how unbelievably whiny and immature these “adults” are in the comments (no better than children!). Do you want to fix your damn problems or not? Thanks for the no BS video, Seth.

Thank you

Great video. I believe you spoke true and honest.i also liked that you don't have that uptalk tone that you see from other videos. It makes me want to listen.

Thank you so much, you are helping with making connection...an increasing problem with a 15 year old ( I don't need your help any more-I CAN HANDLE IT MYSELF.) The approach you give is key. Much appreciated. Jeanne

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We watched this in class today and everyone found d it helpful. Thank you!!

Thank you so much for your help. I needed this.

I am a 55 yr old female I was diagnosed at 54, by the urging of my husband who has raging adhd. I have no idea how to work with this. I am not whining, I was grieving and then I was angry, very angry. On top of this I was sexually assaulted at the age of 8 to 10 by my step father. I get now why I did things the way I did. But I can't live in the chaos and I have absolutely no trust in people. Anxiety disorder, panic disorder. Verbal abuse as a child, and my father left the day I was born. How did I survive until my.moyher passed away and then my live went to shit. Knowing has inly.made.it worse. I don't know how to trust, how do you trust a therapist. How do you know they have your best interest at heart. I an in a constant state of chaos, fear and frozen to the point I want to no longer exist. I don't mean suicide I mean just putting myself in a catatonic state where nothing matters and no emotions are felt.

I’m crying watching this gosh it’s so hard..

Thank you

Another onpoint video, Seth! What I heard you say is relationships are and most important relationship is with ourselves. A healthy relationship with ourselves models for our children how to be healthy themselves.

Thank You for a concise and clear overview. I am in complete shutdown mode. This gives me hope.

Love the context that you build up here! There is crazy pressure from schools and it causes so much strain on mental health and relationships when all that energy could instead go toward enrichment and quality family time. The stuff that matters way more to future success than academics.

Thank you for making this video

Thank you for this. Love your content. You’re an excellent teacher and communicator.

Priceless. Thank you very much!

Thank you. It helped that you were there with me every step of the way.

Looking forward to it ❤

This is presented from a very negative point of view. I’m looking for information for adult ADHD. I hearing more about kids. Also want what I CAN do. Not what I “DoNT Do”. Go to minute 5:17 if you want the start of the 12 TIPS. I don’t have the patience to listen to this today. Maybe some other day.

As an OT often explaining EF, I especially love your "best intro ever!" I agree, this is the BEST intro ever! Thank you.

Hi. Does EF coaching help with language comorbidities? My son has adhd and DLD.

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I hated school struggled with school from nursery vome high school I really didn't want to go to school used to try and ake myself sick when went back to school after break down gorvlast 18 month of school lifeci wascin special u it where at most there were only four of us in a class and I had my named teacher gor all least s and it was bet5er but I only started to enjoy learning at college back in late 1980s autism wasent known about or GAD which I've only recently been diagnosed 3ith and I suspect I had cysprexics a co ordination and maths learning difficulty that encompasses executive function

Thank you thank you thank you for this video. Through your summit and others I’ve watched to support my kid, I realized that I, too, have ADHD (just got late diagnosed about 3 weeks ago). I’m realizing that I have to be patient, especially when my EF strengths/ weaknesses might be a different flavor than my kid. Self compassion has really been helping me show more patience. I’m definitely saving this video to reference later

Adhd late diagnosed parent of adhd child. Our entire household STRUGGLES badly to declutter. We work. We are perfectionist. Procrastinators. It's so hard but I'm still learning how to knock those problems down. I feel so bad for how cluttered our house is though.

Thank you! Helpful tips and yes, important to empower our kids how to be true to themselves and strategize in a way that literally plays to their strengths. I would also suggest to remember the goal is progress not perfection when making strategies- I have had to learn how to accept the compromise of a “good enough” strategy to keep the strategy real (as in, a strategy is there to serve me, not my life conformed to serve the “perfect” ideal life strategy)

Loved that. I should be able to stick to this if I do it just before eating.

I am deeply grateful for your weekly videos. Your advice makes me a better person and parent and person in the world. Thank you!

Hi Seth, one of your best videos for me personally, so thank you. I have strategies, I have 'made it', I am rasing kids kids in a good home, I have so much to be grateful for - that coupled with your tools, tips reminders make me positive about the future and a beter parent.

Me too. My child is grown now.

⭐💯⭐ So helpful Thank you 💙🙏💙

I have always viewed your channel not because of my son, rather information for me and how I can manage EF.

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My favourite executive function app would be toddy its a housework app without my sheltered housing flat woukd be a bomb site when uou diwnliad it ftom google play dtore it gives you a pre set form of all the tooms in your home and a list of chores to that room ie if its bathroom it will say toiket sink clean shower fittings mop gloir disinfect floor clean walls change towels kitchen it will ssy workyops sink gloir fridge freezer drawers empty bin and so on if you say fill form in to hoover every fortnight it will sugfest domething more appropuate like twice a week setting it upmis the longest job but worth theres a character called dusty and he does the jobs on time and its uour job to do them on time if your so nany days late job goes amber colour next to the task if very kate it goes red agsinst task and tells you how nany days late once youve cleared tasks colour goes clear and you know youve completed ive never bet dusty yet and he comes out with funny vomments like if uouve fone loads if jobs at once in bsthroom it will say hey the toilets my sanctuary ir dont uou think you dhould take it easy i put it on at startvof covid and its never come off my tablet a first for me

Ive had to put on tablet as it looks as if id tajen it off i think ive set it up right time will tell ive asked it yo remind me of my meds

That was really helpful.

I use Google Keep, but never noticed the icon for it in Gmail (facepalm). Thanks, Seth!

This video amazing and so helpful! A paper planner wasn't working for my neurodivergent teen and i knew we needed try Google calendar- this helped! Thanks

I LOVE Google Keep!

When you're ADHD, you love to talk, but don't have patience to listen to long videos or whatever, so skim the transcript 😁

Having routines at home and stick to them help my daughter to stay more focused, and also helps avoid fights, doing homework before she is tired so she can be less distracted and more motivated.

FYI: The brain may be fully developed by the mid-20s, meaning that the number of neurons are more or less static, BUT the brain keeps changing our whole life, ie new neuro pathways get developed, reinforced, abandoned, etc. So although our kids and youth have the greater opportunity to transform the way their brain works, this ability remains our whole life! Which means that your #1 should remain a focus our whole life.

It is procrastinating for me. But I can see in my 5 children, 3 of which are neurodivergent, the issues are different for each

Love the video. Good info. You asked for our ideas for improving executive function. I have started using some Critical Thinking Exercises to “stretch” my grandchildren’s creativity and problem solving skills. I think this will help them develop/strengthen their executive functions. I think it will instill confidence in their ability to resolve problems, which will in turn increase their use of these skills. It stands to reason, to my way of thinking, that problem solving exercises executive function. Like you said, the more you use it, the stronger it becomes.

What do you think about EF, chronic illness and using medical marijuana for pain management w the effects on the brain? Double edged sword it seems bc it helps EF in some ways but damages in long term...ty!

Incredibly helpful.