Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Good afternoon everyone. I'm Susan Kaufman and you are tuned into Attitude

magazine's ADHD experts webinar series. We're starting back to school at

least here on the East Coast,

it's been an incredible long and glorious summer.

But those of us who are parents of teens, pre-teens,

college students start contemplating what's ahead,

which is the demands of school work and the struggles that can

ensue in many a household. How do we assure that our teens and our pre-teens do well

without micromanaging them or taking away their independence.

It seems pretty much like a formidable challenge.

It is a formidable challenge.

So today we're so pleased to welcome back

Dr. Peg Dawson, who will talk about teaching pre-teens

and teens independence without hovering.

She will be talking about one of her areas of international expertise.

She speaks all over the world, which is teaching children executive function skills such

as planning, organization, time management, all without micromanaging them.

Peg Dawson received her doctorate in school and children's clinical psychology from the University of Virginia, and she has worked as a school

because psychologists for many years in Maine

New Hampshire as well as for the past 20 years at the Center for

Learning and Attention

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