😎This book is all about concentrating on the task at hand and learning to ignore distractions. While the book is written for children up to ages 12, I honestly believe adults could learn from this too!

😎 The concept is simple: Figure out what you must do, Outline the steps, Concentrate on the job, Use focus tools, and Stop only when the job is done. Figure, Outline, Concentrate, Use, Stop = FOCUS! I love when steps can be turned into acronyms! It helps to remember!

😎 The book includes focus tools like work/break cycles, fidget tools, and others to reinforce focus principles.

😎 Some of this info in this book is definitely geared toward parents, so as a “story” kids may not be engaged as much. That said, I do think the info would be helpful to a child with attention issues and parents and children should work together to learn the concepts.

😎 The end of the book includes tips for parents and teachers to help children learn how to manage their time appropriately and self-monitor.

Thank you @NetGalley and Boys Town Press for an eARC of this book, which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

I was not prepared for how great of not only a book this was, but as a teaching resource! I think this book is very beneficial for teaching young children and definitely can be used in classes or at home! I read this to my littles and it sparked a wonderful conversation from this book and its teachings! They enjoyed the story and the lesson was easy and cleat enough for them to understand.

I work as an instructional aide and loved this book! It normalizes the behavior that many of the students that I work with have and explains different methods of how to minimize them, such as working with manipulatives. I hope that this book becomes a staple in schools so that both the students that have issues with focusing and for those that need to learn more about why a student is "playing" with an object in class.

As a parent of a child with ADHD, I love the concept of this book! I appreciate how the adults in this book treat the main character with such patience; which is something many children with ADHD don't receive. The repetition of the acrostic of F.O.C.U.S. is very helpful! I do feel this book is a little lengthy and may be hard for some children to get through but overall, this book is a very good resource for parents and young children.

Fix it With Focus by Bryan Smith, Illustrator: Lisa M. Griffin - Boys Town Press



you can pre-order here: https://amzn.to/3hcno9V
pub date: 25 ago 2020

ENGLISH:

"Mom What happens to me?! I just can concentrate, it is so hard for me to focus... my mind just likes to travel" My 10yo told me... kind of having fun and kind of being desperate because the pile of homework was overflowing. I have a little artist who needs also to focus.

I thought this book would be a good idea so she wouldn´t feel like she is the only person with that problem (in our house, the rest of us are very good about focusing and being silent working...). The little book has a very useful acrostic that helps children to have in mind what steps they may take to concentrate. The illustrations are cute. It may be fun for a boy or a girl, not only boys deal with that)


F igure our what your job is

O utline the steps

C oncentrate on your job until it´s complete

U se your focus tools

S top only when the job is finished

We learned about the work/brain break cycle.

The author uses the acrostic and fun little anecdotes the boy has to teach these tools to children. At the end of the short book he writes some more ideas for parents and educators if they have children around who need to fix it with focus. This book has not religious references.

I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review of this book.

I really enjoyed this book! I will definitely be using it in our homeschool!

This is book 9 in the "Executive FUNction series. This book deals with the important life skill of being able to focus. The book's mission is to help kids learn self-control or manage ADHD. Wisely the author has included tips for counsellors, educators and parents at the end of the book.

Blake has trouble sitting still and concentrating. When adults around him encourage him to focus he doesn't even know what that means. He doesn't intend to cause havoc and chaos but he easily gets distracted and off he goes down another bunny trail by-passing what he really should be accomplishing.

He destroys a Lego volcano project that his classmates are working on as he zooms by them to look out his classroom window and he injures himself at his baseball game because he takes his eyes off the ball and they zero in on a clog of dirt he just has to kick through an opening in the fence. Both his homeroom teacher and his baseball coach give him strategies to help keep him on point, organize his thoughts and learn how to focus. This book would be a wonderful asset in a classroom and in an elementary school library. I highly recommend it.

This book has a main character that struggles with focus. The teachers give him a strategy to help him with it. The story was very lengthy. I don't think it would keep the attention of kids.

Misses the Mark

While I appreciate the problem the author is trying to address, I don't think this book would truly speak into the young audience it is intended for. The writing style and the way focus is presented and discussed comes across as a little patronizing to me, like the author (through the adult characters) is talking down to the child who cannot focus. Kids can pick that up pretty quickly, and they are not fond of it! The adults, too, talk in a very formal and stiff fashion that is not typical of the way adults actually talk. The author uses buzzwords adults use but that children rarely do. I think the attempt of making the word FOCUS into a mnemonic is a good idea, but the actual components of it weren’t all key components of focusing. Not all those steps are needed to focus. The mnemonic discusses using focus tools, but the author only gave me one for sure (and perhaps another, though the universality was hard to puzzle out) in the entire book. To have that be one of the action steps, I think you need to actually provide more tools for different situations. Better yet, it would have been great to see the main character figure his way out of situations where he has trouble focusing that could relate to a focus tool that could then be shared in more detail in the back of the book on the page for parents and educators. So, all in all, this book did not work for me, and I don’t see it really working for children either.

The author created an acronym out of the word Focus to actually give a touchstone to students needing more focus. Although this would work for individual students of all ages, I believe it would be an excellent lesson for an entire classroom or for a family round table discussion.

Fix it with Focus is a simple diversion story for kids. It's a fun story, which offers a lesson and helpful tips to teach children to adults. There is a FOCUS tool inside, stands for Figure, Outline, Concentrate, Use, & Stop.

It describes the idea well, not only for children even adults! A good resource also for parents, teachers, and kids

I like the book and have a great illustration!

Fix It With Focus by Bryan Smith is a manual to help children who have issues with sitting still and focusing on the task at hand, such as those with ADHD, autism or sensory issues. It gives solid advice and features understanding teachers, coaches and parents. I liked that it can also be used with children who don't necessarily fall into the above categories. The illustrations by Lisa M. Griffin are nicely done and help to back up the concepts presented. in the story. While the target audience is for elementary-aged children, preschoolers and older children could benefit from the FOCUS mnemonic if presented in an age-appropriate way. Parent and educators who are new to the sensory experience would also benefit as it included some resources and tips at the end of the book.

Note: I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via NetGalley and the publishers.

Fix it with focus is a story to help kids who get distracted easily. I loved this book just as much as the others in the series. It is an engaging story that teaches a lesson and it provides helpful tips for adults to navigate teaching kids.

Know what? I am easily distracted. And I was distracted while reading this short picture book. No, not because of the book but because of lack of FOCUS.

I have this FOMO problem, I guess most of us have. I was just checking into my social media sites and thinking about things which didn't require my attention at the moment.

But once I started reading this book, I realised it was talking to me face-to-face.
Like this book was written for me! I am so going to paste that one page in the book which explains FOCUS on the wall and in my journal.

It explains well the concept well.

I say this book is not just for kids. It's for us all.

I would have loved the book more if the illustrations were more appealing.

Thank you #NetGalley for this amazing book!

Fix it With Focus by Bryan Smith tells the story Blake, a young boy who has a difficult time remaining on task in the classroom. While he is supposed to completing his work in class, he is easily distracted by other students and activities going on in his classroom and outside on the playground. Blake hears his teacher's instructions as disjointed and jumbled words because he is not focused on listening to the instructions. His teacher, Mrs, Jasper, notices that Blake is struggling with his focus and teaches him how to FOCUS. This is an acronym that has tools students can use to maintain his/ her concentration on the task at hand. Blake was able to utilize the new tools in the classroom, during his baseball game, and while talking to his friends during lunch. Blake realized that not being focused got in how own way of completing things and/ or doing things correctly. Blake discovered by focusing that he had an easier time completing his tasks. Blake was even able to share some of his focus tools with his brother.
This is an excellent book that would be a good resource for elementary school teachers, counselors, and parents. As a special educator, I believe this book would be wonderful to use in my own classroom of students with autism. I really like how they showed how Blake perceived Mrs. Jasper's words and even wrote her dialogue jumbled together because it allows other to understand that a child may not purposely choosing to be inattentive but rather they simply do not know how to attend. There is a difference. The book also has some tips for parents and educators on how to help children learn to be focused.

A good book by Bryan Smith from Boys Town Press showing a common issue that a child may struggle with, Lack of Focus -- including with tips for ways they can learn to deal with it themselves (and tips for at the back for the parent). Good for a first book for the child who just needs a bit of help, or to see that there are things that they can try.. I have found that sometimes books like get my child thinking about the issue more than if I tried to talk to them about it. I will definitely be looking at other books in the series to see what might be helpful for my child.

This is a book to help teach kids how to focus better. In this book FOCUS is an acronym where each letter stands for stand to meet a goal or get a job done. It provides examples in the classroom, baseball and at home. This book makes for great discussion about how to stay focused and what tools they might need.

Thank you to Net Galley, Boys Town Press and Bryan Smith for the advanced copy of this book.

Teaching students to focus and ignore distractions can be a challenge so this book caught my eye as a potential resource for my early primary classroom. I like how the examples were believable and relatable as well as how they covered a variety of situations. The introduction of different strategies to help with focus is a plus too.

I have two different opinions about the FOCUS framework the book presents. One the one hand, I appreciate how it is laid out in a way that is easy for students to understand and remember. It would be great if you wanted to use this book to introduce and use that. However, the downside to having the FOCUS framework is that I probably wouldn't use the book if I didn't want to use that with my class. Personally, I wish it was left out and just included the examples of when Bryan lost focus and the strategies he used to get back on track.

Although there are some fantastic positives, I'm still not sure if I would use this in my classroom.

An extra good book for children.

I read it with my grandchildren, which I do with all the children's books I receive from Net Galley. I feel if my two grandchildren like them other children will find then good. My grandson is 6 and he is in 1st grade where he is doing very well. My Granddaughter is 11 and she is in 5th grade where she is on the honor roll since kindergarten.

They are my test pilots! If I can get a thumbs up from one or both of them the book well be a successful. This book got a thumbs up from both of my children! It will be a good book for other children in the world.

It was focused on one subject, and kept their attention until the final page.

I am sure that it will succeed when it I released.

As a preschool special education teacher of nearly 20 years, and a mom to children with ADHD, I LOVED this book!
This is such a great story about helping a child to fix things with focus (an acronym). The adults in his life didn’t shame him, they held him responsible and taught him tools to use. In the real world the problem will not be tied up as neatly and as quickly as the story, however I feel that this would be an encouraging book for children struggling with focus. It could also be useful to those without struggles as a way of spreading empathy and understanding to classmates. There are also parent/teacher tips at the end.
It takes a lot for me to get excited about a book I this topic- but this one certainly did!
Thank you for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.