Focus Foundations: Teaching Your Child to Enter Focus - and Stop Losing It

By Philip P Weaver

Your child isn't bad at focusing. Their focus keeps getting stolen - and you can stop the thief.

Every parent has seen it: the child who can't sit still for ten minutes of homework will happily focus for two hours on the things they love. So the problem was never a missing ability. Focus is a state your child's brain already knows how to enter - the real trouble is how easily they get knocked back out of it.

Focus Foundations is a calm, practical system for teaching a child to enter focus on purpose and hold onto it. Built over thirty years of teaching a demanding martial art, and grounded in what the science now confirms, it shows you how to quiet the real thieves of attention - restless senses and quiet anxiety - instead of nagging a child to "try harder."

Inside, you'll learn to: See focus as a trainable state, not a fixed traitSpot what actually pulls your child out of itUse the eyes to lead the mind into focus - the martial artist's secretBuild a simple daily practice, with worksheets your child will loveTurn homework from a battle into something you do togetherNo labels. No shame. Just your child, discovering the focus they had in them all along.

Phil Weaver has taught the martial art Shou' Shu' for over thirty years and is the founder of Learning Success, helping parents raise capable, confident learners.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9GGD3GL
• ISBN13: 9798187905294
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"