ADHD Parenting
This comprehensive guide to parenting a child with ADHD won’t waste your time with run-of-the-mill advice. You need ADD-tested strategies, and here they are — everything you need to know about oppositional defiance, positive parenting, school and learning challenges, health and wellbeing, social skills, executive functions, treatment & more.
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Rewards & Consequences
10 Behavior Chart Rewards to Motivate Your Child
There is no magic in parenting. No one gleaming reward or perfect behavior chart will convince your...
Positive Parenting
Positive Charge: How to Reinforce Good Behavior
Nagging doesn't work. Neither does yelling or spanking. You know why? Punishments tear down children,...
Emotions
Is My Child’s Distress Normal? Or Do We Need Help?
Pandemic distress may transform from worry and sadness into anxiety and depression when ADHD brains...
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
ODD vs. ADHD: The Facts About Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Attention Deficit
Roughly 40 percent of children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) also have oppositional...
Symptom Tests for Children
[Self-Test] Could My Child Have ADHD?
Does my child have ADHD? Only a licensed clinician can diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity...
Symptom Tests for Children
[Self-Test] Symptoms of Hyperactive Impulsive ADHD in Children
What do the hyperactive or impulsive symptoms of ADHD look like in a child’s everyday life? Could...
Meltdowns & Anger
When His Anger Overpowers Logic — and Love
Your child needs to express his anger. It is healthy and cathartic. "But the emotion should be like a...
ADHD Videos
Oppositional Defiant Disorder Strategies: 8 Discipline Rules
Children with oppositional defiant disorder are blatantly disobedient, disrespectful, and...
Positive Parenting
A Radically Positive Parenting Technique
Do you have a child with ADHD who just won’t listen or follow any rules? Is the situation so...
Teens with ADHD
ADHD Symptoms in Teens: Your Guide to Warning Signs & Treatments for Adolescents
With its mood swings and hormonal changes, adolescence also brings new and unnerving ADHD symptoms in...
Making Friends
How to Make Friends: A Guide for Kids with ADHD (and Their Parents, Too)
Nothing breaks a parent's heart like seeing her child struggle to make friends. Sometimes, all our...
Learning Apps & Tools
5 Focus Tricks for Students with ADHD Learning at Home
At home learning again, students with ADHD are noticing both the benefits (self-guided pace, movement...
Screen Time
Is Your Child Addicted to Video Games?
Playing a great video game is like living inside of a movie and being showered with gold coins. Is it...
Emotions
Change Is Hard. Confronting an Unknown Future is Harder.
Change is hard for children and teens with ADHD, who don’t know when school will resume, vacations...
Parenting
I Had No Safe Place. Can I Build One for My Son?
Like so many talkative, smart, socially awkward girls in the ‘80s and ‘90s, my ADHD was overlooked...