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For Success: Focus on Possibilities Not Limitations

Happy Back to School! Parents, I hope you enjoy your clean kitchen for a few more hours each day. 😉 A thought for your year ahead 🪂 - ”Open your mind to your possibilities. Then center your identity on your [...]

Cara Thorpe – Executive Skills Performance Coach

Hi, I'm Cara, a Jersey Girl with Canadian parents, a big heart, contagious smile, and wildly perfectionistic tendencies. I may have left the bustling streets of Jersey behind, but my vibrant personality and fierce determination have found a new home in [...]

By |2023-08-22T10:54:38-05:00August 22nd, 2023|ADHD, Executive Functioning Skills, Parenting|

Power Planning for ADHD

🥰 Know what I love MOST about this summer?!?!? Besides warmth, I heart the endless drip of high school kids in and out of our house. Before you think I'm "that amazing, relaxed mom," let me assure you, it's totally [...]

The 5 Gifts of Executive Function Skills Coaching

- A Coach's Perspective Have you ever watch someone rediscover inspiration? Recently, I asked one of our EF Coaches to share the gifts she receives (unwraps, if you like metaphors), while working with families through EF Skills Coaching. Quick background [...]

The Summer of MINDSET

Can we make this the summer of MINDSET? Oh my goodness, families, the more time I spend studying what makes us successful in every aspect of our lives….it’s…you guessed it. Mindset. I’m going to use the “show don’t tell” approach, [...]

How to Prioritize Time Using Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand

You may be surprised to know that not everything we do at Yellow Parachute is original to us. (Wink.)   Part of our passion is to take the best habits, proven successful over time, and bring them to our students, [...]

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