The more difficult it becomes to parent my child with adhd, the more I become aware of (what seems like) others almost constantly judging my/our parenting decisions and skills. It began with initially evaluating him (for which we were criticized), to our decision to medicate him (again severely criticized), to a follow-up decision to change/tweak his meds (again criticized, this time by his teacher/s), to doing time outs in public, withholding privaledges, etc, and the list goes on.

I have never been great at handling judgements and criticism, but this is really agitating me. My life feels like a war zone, where I have to constantly be "up", working at a frantic pace to be on top of my son, who moves at a frantic pace. I know I 'm supposed to tell myself I"m doing my best for him and others can't know that, and I have to persist despite judgements of others, but I'm having a hard time doing that. Please share with me, when you know you're not at your best even though you're trying how you keep encouraging yourself.

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