The book · Second edition
Focus Foundations
Your child isn’t bad at focusing. Their focus keeps getting stolen — and you can stop the thief.
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.
Pick whichever suits you
Both are the complete book. Keep a paperback by the homework table, or read it free right now — your choice.
The paperback
A real book to keep by the homework table, mark up, and hand around. $14.99 on Amazon.
Get the paperback on AmazonThe free edition
The whole book, free to read online — no cost, no catch. Start reading in the next minute.
Read it free (PDF)A truer way to see focus — and what to do about it
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.
Inside, you’ll learn to:
- See focus as a trainable state, not a fixed trait
- Spot what actually pulls your child out of it
- Use the eyes to lead the mind into focus — the martial artist’s secret
- Build a simple daily practice, with worksheets your child will love
- Turn homework from a battle into something you do together
No labels. No shame. Just your child, discovering the focus they had in them all along.
And you won’t be doing it alone
The best part of Focus Foundations isn’t in the book — it’s the parents you’ll meet because of it. Every reader is welcomed into a warm, private community walking exactly this road. Most have been quietly worried for a while, and felt alone with it. Here, that stops.
Share a small win. Ask the question you didn’t want to ask anyone else. Compare notes on what’s actually helping, and hear from families a few weeks further down the road. No labels, no judgment, no “my kid is behind” — just parents cheering each other’s kids on. For a lot of families, it’s the thing that keeps them going when a hard week hits.
It’s all part of the free Parent Toolkit that comes with the book: the community, every printable worksheet, and a short guided course that walks you through the method and goes deeper than the page allows.
You’ll find your invitation inside the book — in the free edition and the paperback alike. Read it either way, and it’s yours.
Which will it be?
Phil Weaver has taught the martial art Shou’ Shu’ for over thirty years and is the founder of Learning Success.