Lucy Jo Palladino

Counsels readers on how to hone attention skills in the face of information overload, outlining specific strategies for prioritizing and achieving a focused state of mind.

An Effective New Plan to Defeat Distraction and Overload

Find Your Focus Zone

Thom Hartmann

ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child

The Edison Gene

Are your kids unable to step away from the screens? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide that gives parents the tools to teach children, from toddlers to teens, how to gain control of their technology use. As children spend more of their time on tablets and smartphones, using apps specially engineered to capture their attention, parents are concerned about the effects of so much technology use--and feel powerless to intervene. They want their kids to be competent and competitive in their use of technology, but they also want to prevent the attention problems that can develop from overuse. Lucy Jo Palladino shows that the key is to help kids build awareness and control over their own attention, and in this guide she gives parents the tools to do exactly that, in seven straightforward, evidence-based steps. Parents will learn the best practices to guide children to understand and control their attention—and to recognize and resist when their attention is being "snatched." This approach can be modified for kids of all ages. Parents will also learn the critical difference between voluntary and involuntary attention, new findings about brain development, and what puts children at risk for attention disorders.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Balancing Your Child's Use of Technology

Parenting in the Age of Attention Snatchers

An award-winning clinical psychologist is the first to codify a pattern of thinking that puts one in five children on a collision course with a conforming world.Millions of children -- one in five -- possess dazzling intelligence, an active imagination, a free-spirited approach to life, and the ability to drive everyone around them completely crazy. Such kids, Lucy Jo Palladino argues, possess the Edison Trait. Unlike their peers, they think divergently (generating many ideas at once), rather than convergently (focusing on one idea at a time).While such kids have the same restless, creative urges that helped Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Maya Angelou, and others succeed in later life, their brain-storming minds often cause distress in school, where conformity rules the classroom. Further, some Edison kids have ADD -- attention deficit disorder -- which puts them at greater risk for dysfunction.Dr. Palladino helps parents identify and appreciate the Edison Trait in their children and determine whether their child is a Dreamer, Discoverer, or Dynamo. She offers eight steps designed to help understand and support the gifts of the Edison Trait and minimize its deficits. She also includes a special section for parents whose Edison kids have ADD.

Saving the Spirit of Your Nonconforming Child

The Edison Trait

In this groundbreaking book, author and psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino shows us how to fearlessly find the perfect arousal level so we can concentrate even when we're under pressure, or facing dull but important tasks that simply need to get done. For the millions of people who combat distraction every day, this friendly, practical book with its innovative techniques is just what the doctor ordered.

Copilul dumneavoastră nu se poate desprinde de tabletă și smartphone? Petrece ore în șir în fața calculatorului și e obsedat săși cumpere cele mai noi gadgeturi? Chiar dacă tehnologia modernă este utilă, punând la dispoziția copiilor o mulțime de informații, folosirea excesivă a dispozitivelor digitale poate duce la grave tulburări de atenție. Acest ghid în șapte pași va arată cum îi puteți învăța pe copiii dumneavoastră, indiferent de vârstă – de la cei mici până la adolescenți –, să devină selectivi și săși dezvolte capacitatea de autocontrol, astfel încât să apese la timp butonul „Închis“. Informațiile și activitățile prezentate pot fi aplicate cu succes și de părinții ai căror copii suferă deja de tulburări de atenție, ca ADHD.

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