Reading With Your Kids Podcast

If your kids struggle with time management and staying on task, you'll want to tune in to this insightful conversation with Mindy Hudon, the author of the new middle-grade graphic novel "Kodi's Adventure: How I Learned to Defeat the Time Snatcher." As a speech-language pathologist specializing in executive function skills, Mindy has a unique perspective on the challenges kids face when it comes to planning, organization, and time management. In this episode, she shares how she created the character of the "Time Snatcher" to represent the distractions and obstacles that can derail kids, especially those with ADHD or other neurodiverse conditions. Mindy explains the importance of executive function skills, which involve the frontal lobe of the brain and are crucial for everything from completing tasks to regulating our thoughts and behaviors. She emphasizes that these skills continue developing until around age 25, and often lag behind in kids with special needs. That's where Mindy's expertise as a speech thera