Impulsivity

Work smarter, not harder, by combining academic lessons with social skill development. First, read The Garden in My Mind picture book with your class, then use this companion activity guide to drive home the message about your expectations for positive...

Children and adults alike struggle with the challenge of using their social filter. Though we try to teach our children about this from a young age, it’s confusing for children to understand why we tell them to be honest or to speak up in one...

Are you searching for creative ways to teach students the right time and way to ask for help? Would your students benefit from learning how to stay on task so they get their work done? In this activity guide, author Julia Cook offers fun activities and...

This teacher and counselor activity guide is designed to accompany the My Anxiety is Messing Things Up chapter book, an empowering story about managing and overcoming stress and worry.  The guide includes text from the story, along with clarifying...

Help children learn the useful social skills of “Asking for Permission” and “Making an Apology.” Activities and games in this book teach the steps to these skills featured in the storybook SORRY, I Forgot to Ask!, part of...

Looking for clever and entertaining as well as effective ways to teach your students how to listen and follow instructions? To help reinforce the social skills lessons in her children’s book, The WORST Day of My Life EVER!, author Julia Cook...

This book can help teachers, school Counselors, social workers, probation officers, psychologists, foster parents, child care staff, and administrators teach angry youth how to calm down, use self-control strategies, and solve problems in positive ways...

2025 IBPA Book Award Winner, 2024 Counselor's Choice Award Winner, and 2024 Royal Dragonfly Book Award Winner! A child-friendly guide that strips away the stigmas, myths, and misconceptions associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...

2025 IBPA Book Award Winner, 2024 Counselor's Choice Award Winner, and 2024 Royal Dragonfly Book Award Winner! A child-friendly guide that strips away the stigmas, myths, and misconceptions associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...

Winner of the Mom's Choice Award - Gold Medal!  Discover how to address issues at school, at meals and bedtime, with siblings and peers, and out in public when you have a child with ADHD. Learn how to manage challenging behavior from the early...

Winner of the Mom's Choice Award and Counselor's Choice Award! Oscar is a perfectionist with an anxiety problem. He puts pressure on himself to excel in everything he does. That’s why he earns good grades, wins awards, plays sports, performs in the...

2024 Parent and Teacher's Choice Gold Medal Award Winner!! Missing assignments. Half-done homework. Sloppy notes. A backpack jammed full of non-essential stuff: Crusty candy wrappers! A stinky sock! Broken pencils! A crumpled comic book! When it comes to...

2014 Mom's Choice Award Winner!!  "Grass withers and flowers fade every time a bad choice is made."  "What in the world is that supposed to mean?" Trey asked. "Your brain is like a sponge. It has many flower seeds just waiting to grow. Each...

*2024 Counselor's Choice Award Winner!**2024 Autism Live! Best Book Award Winner!* Who’s the boss? Awesome Dawson or his BIG emotions? When Dawson is told to turn off the TV and go to bed, he huffs and puffs and kicks the couch. He’s not...

Dawson is happy whenever he gets to go first, see first, and be first. But he sure struggles when he has to wait his turn! This is the story of a young boy who discovers that when he practices patience, waits his turn, and shares with others, he shows...

Dawson feels lots of emotions and knows each one has an important job, including keeping him safe, resilient, and prepared.   But what happens when his emotions take their jobs too seriously? Will Dawson still be able to manage them, or will they...