Parent Pause: Helping Your Child's Executive Functions Grow — with Adele Diamond's Brain Science

What helps a child's executive functioning grow — and what can parents do at home?

In Episode 39, the first Parent Pause from Wonderfully Wired, Elle Leher responds to her conversation with developmental cognitive neuroscientist Professor Adele Diamond in Episode 38, The Things That Make a Brain Work, and translates the science of executive function into everyday parenting.

Through three simple messages — "I love you exactly as you are," "I trust you to grow," and "How can I help?" — Elle explores how parents can create the conditions children need for connection, growing autonomy and competence.

You'll hear practical ideas for supporting children and teens with executive-function challenges, including how to balance helping with stepping back, use scaffolding without taking over, find the right level of challenge for skill development, deliberately build joy into family life, and help children transfer executive-function skills from the things they love to the places they struggle.

Especially relevant for parents of neurodivergent, ADHD, dyslexic and wonderfully wired children, this short solo episode is about creating a home in which children know they belong, experience themselves as capable, and gradually grow in independence.

Listen to Episode 38, The Things That Make a Brain Work for Elle's full conversation with Professor Adele Diamond.

Want Elle to speak to your parent group, school, church or community? Contact elle@wonderfullywired.online.