All posts by Marydee Sklar

Estimating Time When Your Brain Can’t

Folks challenged by the executive functioning skill of time management really struggle with estimating how long tasks take. Since their brain doesn’t register the passage of time, they are often

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Executive Functioning Tip #11: Create Space

My time management tip for today isn’t exactly about time, it’s about the “stuff” in our lives. I firmly believe that the things we own, both in our home and work environment, takes up

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“See” Your Future…Can the Resolutions

As we all know, January is the traditional time to make a list of resolutions to improve our behavior. For those with executive functioning challenges, it may be a time to make “resolutions” to edit

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Executive Functioning Tip #10: Filing Papers so You can Find Them | Time Management Planning

For me, paper organization was the last skill I mastered as I got control of my executive functioning deficits. I found my inspiration in David Allen’s Getting Things Done.  His best advice: file alphabetically

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Working with Multiple Children in One Family

Can you use the Seeing What I Need to Do course with more than one child from the same family at once? It depends.

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Upcoming Presentations

October 23, 2010 Association of Educational Therapists 32nd Annual Conference, Berkeley, California Title: Teaching Executive Functioning Skills: Time Management Tools for Students Time: 90 minutes Goal:

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Seeing My Time Group Course

Do your students struggle to keep track of their assignments? Is your house a maze of piles? Do you hustle and hustle and always end up late? During the Seeing My Time Group Course, Marydee Sklar will

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The Launch Pod

When dedicated professionals dream big, even the sky can’t slow us down. Professionals in the education field are already propelling Seeing My Time in a multitude of directions – thriving private

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Exhausted? A Tech Tool for Sleep Hygiene

The other day at about 2:15 in the afternoon, my twenty-year-old client’s head was drooping lower and lower to the table. He yawned and apologized, saying “I’m just so tired.”  Our session turned

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Split Families: Strategies and Tips to Support Executive Functioning and Lower Conflict

Lately I’ve been impressed by some split families who’ve come to my table to rally around their struggling child. It is inspiring to have these parents set aside their differences for the

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