ADHD Chat with DrG Newsletter
Coping with ADHD as a parent and/or an ADHDer yourself presented by a neuropsychologist who is also the parent of two ADHD kids and married into an ADHD family.
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14. Still Parenting: When Your ADHD Child Is 40
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ADHD is persistent: an ADoutgrow ADHD, no matter how old they get.
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Maybe you thought the storm would calm once your ADHD child...
13. ADHD Parenting: 15 Important Things to Remember
1. ADHD is a neurologic condition. It is not a behavior problem or the result of poor parenting.Â
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2. The symptoms of ADHD are...
ADHD: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
The world of ADHD has added a new symptom that is not yet in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. That new symptom is called “rejection...
11. ADHD: HYPERCURIOSITY
Reading through a journal the other day, I came across an article about a new characteristic that has been identified in ADHDers. It's called “hypercuriosity.”...
10ADHD Parenting: Keeping It All Equal
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How do we keep everything equal in a family where one child has ADHD and another doesn’t have ADHD?
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Frequently, in ADHD families,...
9. ADHD Parenting: Positivity Needed
Parenting an ADHD child is difficult, but it’s important to be aware of how our negativity affects them. We have discussed behavior monitoring in terms...
8. ADHD Parenting: Putting It All Together
Understanding emotions in both yourself as a parent and in your ADHD child will help you shape and improve behaviors. In the long term, you...
7. ADHD: Now Understand Your Child's Behavior
I recently presented the importance of formally monitoring your behaviors and emotions as parents of an ADHD child. Most people don’t pay much attention to...
6. ADHD Parenting: Understand Your Own Behavior First
I recently wrote about the parent being the only part of the parent-ADHD child relationship that you have control over. Like most parents, when my...
5. ADHD: You Are the Only Thing You Can Control
I know from years and years with my own ADHD children that there are plenty of situations when you will desperately be trying to control...
4. ADHD - Science =Truth, Opinion = Garbage
The world of the ADHD parent or any ADHDer is complicated and difficult already. We think we know how to handle a certain situation or...
3.ADHD - Coaching for Highest Potential
Today’s topic is Coaching, which is rapidly becoming the major treatment for ADHD besides medication. Now ADHD coaching - for those of you who associate...