Summer break doesn’t always feel like a break especially for neurodivergent kids. Without structure, routines collapse, and progress often unravels. This guide offers practical tools, grade-specific transition tips, and a free Summer Smarts PDF to help families stay regulated, prepared, and supported all season long.

Learn how students can manage test anxiety with 3 body-based tools and 3 mindset shifts. Easy, fast strategies for emotional regulation that actually work.

Executive function skills are the brain’s self-management system. When these skills are underdeveloped (especially in kids with ADHD, anxiety, or learning differences), tasks like planning, organizing, and starting work can feel impossible.

Disorganization isn’t defiance—it’s a developmental delay. Discover how ADHD students can thrive when organization is taught, not expected.

If your child constantly misses deadlines, forgets assignments, or melts down over simple tasks, it's not a discipline problem—it’s likely executive function. Time management challenges are often misread as laziness or lack of motivation, when in fact they’re signs of a developing brain that needs scaffolding, not shame. In this article, we break down what’s really going on beneath the surface—and what parents can do to help.