How to Help Your Child
Are Executive Function Challenges
Holding Back Your Child in School?
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A Free Guide to the Best Accommodations for Common ADHD Behaviors
by ADDitude Magazine
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Pep Up Your Inattentive Kid
by Tess Messer
My son has been diagnosed with inattentive ADHD. He is easily distracted, slow to complete tasks, and has a poor sense of time. Once, in fifth grade, he was assigned a project in which he had to figure out which three foods 36 cats preferred the most. Four days into the weeklong project, he learned that cats do not digest corn or rice, cat urine glows in the dark, and Isaac Newton invented the cat door. He didn’t have a single observation about the project itself.
Slowed-down, sluggish, and drifting? Smart strategies for getting a distracted, daydreaming child back on track.
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I Was Hesitant to Try Medication
to Treat Her ADHD
by Jenn Amock
When my daughter had trouble in school, I was hesitant to try medication to treat her ADHD. After seeing the results, I think it may be a magic pill.
Is your child’s behavior truly naughty? In other words, are they intentionally making a bad choice, or struggling with the impulsivity that often comes with ADHD? Most kids who have ADHD know what they should do but can’t get themselves to do it. If you choose to see it as something they want to do but are having a hard time with, you’re more inclined to guide positively instead of punish.
Slideshow with commentary “Why I Didn’t Want to Medicate My Daughter”
Parenting Dos and Don’ts:
ADHD and Discipline
by WebMD
Always Losing Homework?
ADHD causes problems with the ability to keep track of time and stay organized. If your child has ADHD, it may not be their fault that they spend hours on their homework and then lose it. As a parent, you can help them overcome that. By helping your kid stay organized, you're teaching skills to last a lifetime.
Slideshow with commentary “Parenting Dos and Don’ts”
A Website With Many Good
Resources for Parents
Resources Designed with Busy Parents in Mind! Become more confident and better-equipped to help your kids manage their realities of life and learning.
Website “Impact Parents”
10+1 Brief ADHD Back to School Tips
From Pros and Moms
ADHD affects millions of children and adults who suffer from impulsivity, hyperactivity, and inattention. The resulting lack of focus can be very disruptive in everyday life at school and home, affecting your child’s academic performance and social skills. The following 10+1 practical tips from professionals and parents are designed to overcome these problems.
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Helping a Child with ADHD
is an Organized Effort
Parents, caregivers, healthcare professionals and educators: Each and everyone is an important part of the team. That core group, plus a comprehensive treatment plan, can lead to the successful management of your loved one's ADHD.
Full article “Helping a Child with ADHD is an Organized Effort”
Power Through Community
A certified instructor of CHADD’s Parent to Parent program, Jane Milrod visits to tell of raising and finding support for her two children with different types of ADHD. From struggling with bad advice and obtaining IEPs to starting her local CHADD chapter, training other parents to be knowledgeable advocates, and the benefits of helping one another to gain knowledge and power, Jane establishes just how useful CHADD, its training programs, and the ADHD community, can be.
“I Wish I Had Known…”
by ADDitude Editors
“…our rights in school and how to get what was best for my child without the school pressuring us to do what was easiest for them.” 10 things parents wish someone had told them after their child’s ADHD diagnosis.
Learning to parent a child with ADHD is a journey. It can take a long time — and some back-tracking — to find all the answers to questions such as: Who can diagnose my child? How do I differentiate symptoms from puberty, stress, or life? What are our rights at school? Here, our readers share the things the tidbits of knowledge and understanding they wish they'd had from the moment their child was diagnosed with ADHD. Learn from their wisdom!
Full article “I Wish I Had Known…”
What Does It Feel Like to Learn and Think Differently?
You can see kids of different ages talk about how it feels to learn and think differently around attention and organization. Dr. Hallowell then gives advice on how we can help each child be more successful. Although the children have different presentations of their ADHD (Inattentive, Hyperactive-Impulsive or Combination), they share many commonalities.
Attention Challenges:
Julia, 2nd grade
Kendall, 4th grade
Noah, 11th grade
Organizational Challenges
Stephen, 2nd grade
Scott, 5th grade
Gabby, 9th grade