Social Skills Unscripted

One of the most important pieces of advice I share with parents of neurodivergent kids to build connections with their kids and try their best to understand them. I realized I haven't talked much about HOW to do that.

Today's episode is all about this topic!

First, please stop asking your kid ho...

You can listen to this week's episode HERE or watch it on YouTube HERE.

In this week's podcast episode with Carrie Bonnett, we talk about the importance of self-advocacy, giving everything a home, and making the invisible visible.

To Carrie, this relates to executive functioning tasks. To me...

This week's podcast features my first guest, Chris Fugelsang. Chris is an executive functioning coach, so I figured he would be a perfect person to talk to since that's what I've been talking about all summer! You can listen to this week's episode HERE or watch it on YouTube HERE.

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All about how and why I went from being a go-to social skills expert to not teaching social skills at all! Now I teach social groups focusing on teaching our kids the things that REALLY matter when it comes to making friends, and I’m on a mission to help others do the same!

Listen to the podcast ep...

This episode is all about what I call the STARFISH scale. STARFISH is an acronym, even though it didn’t start out that way.

In last week’s episode I told the Starfish story about the girl on the beach, and that’s how I came up with the name Starfish Social Club. I LOVE patterns and things becoming ...

Let’s talk about neurodivergent brains and stuff.

If your autistic or ADHD child (or you!) struggles with an unhealthy attachment to stuff, stick around. We’re going to talk about some of the causes for this attachment, how it affects those of us who struggle with it, and ways we can help our ki...

(You can listen to this on our podcast HERE or watch it on YouTube HERE.)

Does your child struggle with time management? Do they get overwhelmed when things need to get done? Do they spend more time resisting or refusing than actually doing the thing? Do they have a reputation for procrastinatin...

(You can listen to this on our podcast HERE or watch on YouTube HERE.)

Does your kiddo refuse to apologize for things, even when there is evidence of the crime? Or do they apologize for everything?? Why is the concept of apologizing difficult for autistic and ADHD kids? I'm going to share some o...

(You can listen to this podcast episode HERE or watch it on YouTube HERE.)

August 16 is 'Tell a Joke Day!

At Starfish Social Club, our big thing is helping kids choose the reputation that they want for themselves, then we teach them the things that they can do to create that reputation AND the ...