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Managing Summer Stressors: A Message to Moms with ADHD
Do you remember the joy you felt as a child on the last day of school before summer vacation? The excitement, relief, and sense of accomplishment? It would be nice to feel so carefree again, wouldn’t it? But all parents, especially moms with ADHD, know that “summer vacation” isn’t really a vacation for everyone, especially…
Tags: Change Behaviors
July 3, 2023
5 Tips to Make Life Easier for Yourself as an ADHD Parent
Parenting Can’t Be Automatized Some tasks, like driving, become automatic when we master them. When you’re 16, every turn of the wheel requires conscious thought (or should!). Once you learn, you go on autopilot unless something jars you – a car in the wrong lane, a dog running into the road, a police cruiser in…
Tags: Build Trust, Change Behaviors, Create Structures, Develop Routines, Expert Articles, Overcome Obstacles, Stop Meltdowns, Wipe Out Logistical Challenges
June 26, 2023
Planning Summer Days: Rhythm and Routine with Kids
Summer! Kids are excited. Teachers are relieved. Parents around the country start feeling a familiar knot in the pit of their stomachs about the change of routine with kids in summer – especially parents dealing with ADHD kids. Somewhere in their minds, they are thinking, “Now what? What do I do with my energetic, often…
Calm the Chaos: The Benefits of Practicing Mindfulness with ADHD
Feel like you’re always running on an empty tank because you have to live in the past, present, and future all at once? That you can’t enjoy your children because they’re always stressed, or you’re always worried? Does chaos chase away calm and leave everyone tense and drained? Scared that it will always be that…
Tags: Change Behaviors, Develop Routines, Expert Articles, Increase Focus, Take Time for Yourself
June 19, 2023
Take Care of Your Brain, Take Care of YOU
You love your child unconditionally and will do anything for them. That 24/7 job is hard enough, but with something extra like ADHD, your job as a parent can feel overwhelming, exhausting, and somewhat of a marathon. Constantly assessing and making adjustments are not one-time events, they are a series of tweaks and changes requiring…
Getting Active is More than Just an ADHD Issue
Let’s hear it for jumping jacks and somersaults! Exercise and getting active is a terrific way to activate the brain – especially with ADHD! We recommend that before kids sit down to do homework, they do pushups, shoot hoops, run around the yard – do something to get the body moving and the brain going. After…
Tags: Exercise and Eat Right, Quick Tips and Tricks
June 12, 2023
Setting Boundaries for Summer
Aaahhh, Summer. The school year comes to a close, and parents start to dream about the days when schedules are lighter, pressures are less, and… THERE IS NO HOMEWORK! Then reality kicks in. Most of our kids do have schedules in the summer. Even if they don’t, we know that structure can add value to the…
Tags: Change Behaviors, Create Structures, Develop Routines, Expert Articles, Overcome Obstacles, Wipe Out Logistical Challenges
June 5, 2023
7 Questions to Find the Right Camp for ADHD Kids
It’s hard to believe official summer is around the corner, but thankfully Matt Weneta takes the stress out of finding a good summer camp for your ADHD kids. Camping is a great opportunity for kinesthetic kids who need to move – they can learn by doing. In this blog, Matt offers parents 7 questions to…
Tags: Build Self-Esteem, Create Structures, Guest Expert, Overcome Obstacles
How to Pick Your Battles to Achieve Family Peace
How Positivity Helps You ‘Pick Your Battles’ Positive parenting. Focus on their strengths, on their successes. Downplay and redirect those moments when they miss the mark. Easier said than done, isn’t it? Really, stay positive? When my ADHD teen is making me crazy? When, for the 17th time (today), I’m asking him, as directly and…
Tags: Build Trust, Change Behaviors, Expert Articles, Fix Hurt Feelings, Settle Family Politics
May 29, 2023
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