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Supporting Your Child's Success
A Parent's Guide to Understanding Executive Functioning and Youth Development
Key Differences
Choosing the Right Support: Tutoring vs. Therapy vs. Coaching
When a young person struggles, parents often wonder: should we get a tutor, a therapist or a coach? Each plays a valuable role but they are designed to address very different needs. Understanding the distinctions helps you choose the right support.
Tutoring
Academic and subject-specific. Tutors focus on knowledge gaps in areas like maths, science or language. They help students master content and improve grades in specific subjects.
Therapy
Clinical and emotional. Therapists address mental health concerns like anxiety, depression or trauma. They provide treatment for diagnosed conditions and deep emotional healing.
Coaching
Skills-based and goal-orientated. Coaches develop executive functioning, resilience and life skills. They help students build systems for success across all areas of life.
Understanding
Understanding Your Child's Struggles
Have you ever told your child to "just focus" or "stop procrastinating", only to watch them freeze up, zone out, or push things off until the last minute? It's easy to mistake this for laziness. The truth is: it's often something deeper.
Today's young people are juggling more than ever: academic stress, friendship drama, exams and social media pressures. Understanding what's really happening beneath the surface is the first step to providing the right support.
Core Concept
What Is Executive Functioning?
Executive functioning is a set of mental skills that help us manage time, organise tasks, control impulses, and stay focused. These cognitive abilities are like the brain's command centre, directing how we plan, prioritise and execute daily activities.
When these skills are underdeveloped or challenged, children may appear unmotivated or lazy. In reality, they are struggling with fundamental cognitive processes that affect their ability to start tasks, maintain attention and follow through on commitments.
Time Management
Planning and prioritising
Organisation
Keeping track of tasks
Focus Control
Maintaining attention
Building Strength
From Stress to Success: How Coaching Builds Resilience
While stress is inevitable, resilience is what helps young people thrive in the face of challenges. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from setbacks. It's not about avoiding failure but about using challenges as opportunities to grow.
Research shows that resilient students perform better academically, maintain healthier relationships and experience lower rates of anxiety and depression. Coaching provides the tools and strategies to develop this critical life skill.
Face Challenges
Acknowledge difficulties without avoidance
Build Skills
Develop coping strategies and problem-solving
Grow Stronger
Transform setbacks into opportunities
Digital Balance
Balancing Screen Time and Mental Well-being
"Put your phone down!" If this phrase sounds familiar, you are not alone. Screens dominate modern childhood and while technology has benefits, too much of it can displace sleep, focus and real-life connection.
68%
Sleep Disruption
Teens using screens before bed report poor sleep quality
45%
Attention Issues
Increase in focus problems linked to excessive screen use
52%
Anxiety Rates
Higher anxiety in youth with 5+ hours daily screen time
The Problem
Research links excessive screen time to anxiety, poor sleep, and attention issues. But banning devices outright often backfires.
The Solution
The goal isn't restriction, it's balance. Teaching healthy digital habits helps children develop self-regulation and maintain well-being.
Communication Tips
5 Communication Phrases Every Parent Should Try
Ever ask "How was your day?" and get a one-word answer? You are not alone. Many parents struggle with getting their children to open up. The secret often lies in validation rather than interrogation.

Why teens shut down: Feeling judged, dismissed or misunderstood. When they sense criticism, they retreat.
01
"That sounds really hard"
Validates their feelings without trying to fix or minimise the problem
02
"Tell me more about that"
Shows genuine interest and invites them to share at their own pace
03
"I'm here when you're ready to talk"
Removes pressure while keeping the door open for conversation
04
"What do you think you'll do?"
Empowers them to problem-solve rather than imposing solutions
05
"I trust you to figure this out"
Builds confidence and shows faith in their abilities
These phrases create safety, build trust and open pathways for authentic communication. When children feel heard rather than judged, they are more likely to share what is really going on in their lives.
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