Total Focus: A Comprehensive Program to Improve Attention, Concentration, & Self Control in Children:
Do you get frustrated with how many times you find yourself repeating directions to your child? Do you frequently have to resort to threats of grounding or losing a toy or privilege before your child will do what you want? Do you feel like a referee when your children can't get along, or they can't get along with their friends?
Dr. Robert Myers, a child psychologist from California knows what you have been going through. He has worked with families on these issues for decades. He also dealt with it with his own son, who had ADHD.
Now he has compiled the strategies and interventions which worked on his son and the many families he has worked with into the Total Focus program.
I reviewed the program and found that Dr. Meyers is very savvy about the "whys" of children's and parents' behaviors. He has packaged many of the same strategies that I have shared with parents into this program. This includes the "put the toy in time out instead of the child" strategy. This strategy when used with the language that he encourages parents to use, helps children learn to take ownership of their behaviors.
He also uses many of the relaxation strategies that I have taught children over the years, to help decrease anxiety and fears, and to develop skills in focus and organization.
You will find his program to be very useful in learning how to help your child. You do have to be willing to follow his recommendations for language used, just as I encourage parents to, because they have been found to be more effective than the anger, threats, and put downs that we have used in the past.
If you would like to learn more about this program click the link below.
