Guiding parents and teachers to manage challenges with Complex Kids
In 2011, we started with a simple mission: to support parents who wanted to help their medically complex kids – kids with ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, autism, sensory issues, and more -- reach their full potential. We hadn’t created the term ‘complex’ back then, and ‘special needs’ never seemed to fit. So starting as ImpactADHD®, a condition our families shared, we created the first global online resource for parenting kids who didn’t ‘fit the mold’. Complex kids are quirky, or complicated, or (cont'd below)
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Leading Articles about Managing Complex Kids
Use Code Words To Help Complex Kids Cope with … Everything?
We use code words in our family to facilitate communication, ease emotionally intense situations, and aid in organization. When my…
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Are You In Threat Mode? 6 Tools to Stop the Yelling
Yelling Doesn’t Calm The Chaos Why do we yell, even when we know it’s ineffective? Instead of handling things calmly,…
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Graduating Seniors in Quarantine — Here Come Those Tears, Again…
Four years ago, my daughter was a graduating senior – from High School. When I dropped her off at college,…
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Resentment in the Time of Quarantine
There’s more to do (now that there’s nothing to do) than you ever imagined possible. I mean, you’ve always worn…
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Is Your Quarantine Like Ours?
With quarantine comes many missed milestones: concerts, athletic events, senior nights and graduations. Nobody’s fault, but so heartbreaking for kids…
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Growth vs. Fixed Mindset in Kids and Adults
One of the most basic beliefs we carry about ourselves has to do with how we view our personality. You…
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Help, My Kid is Sneaking Technology!
Diane:Another question we get about technology is kids sneaking technology. Elaine:I hear this all the time. Diane:“I found a kid…
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Parenting in a Pandemic: You’ve Got This!
Parenting in a Pandemic: You’ve Got This! Warning: this is going to be one of those its-two-o-clock-in-the-morning-and-I-can’t-sleep blogs. Parenting in…
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How to Handle Impulsive Interruptions
Does Your Kid Interrupt You? As we all know all too well, impulsive interruptions are a big challenge with our…
CONTINUED(continued) sensitive, or emotional, or hyperactive, or impulsive, or sensory – and there’s usually a medically complex explanation for their behaviors. We believe passionately that no parent should ever have to go through the journey of raising complex kids on their own. Parenting these complicated, fascinating young people doesn’t have to be isolating.
Complex kids struggle with fundamental aspects of life or learning. For their parents, traditional parenting methods often don’t work as effectively as we think they should. They may be helpful, but they always seem to fall short of really meeting our needs, which leaves us feeling inadequate, like we’re failing our kids. When our kids are different, they need something different from us.
At ImpactParents, we pledge to partner with parents and teachers to take the frustration out of daily life and guide you to manage daily challenges effectively, with confidence and good humor. This blog will introduce you to a proven method that relies on a coach approach – and it will support you in parenting, regardless of what ‘flavor’ of complex kid you are trying to support more effectively.
We’ll guide you to shift your expectations and communicate with less judgment and more acceptance. As a result, you’ll be able to give directions and offer advice without triggering defensive reactions. Your kids will see you as a member of their team and seek you out for guidance and support.
Regardless of whether your kids have autism, sensory issues, ADHD, learning challenges, or any of the many other mental health and learning challenges facing families today, the coach approach will help you become the parent you really want to be – the parent your children, teens and young adults need you to be. It will guide you to create the kind of relationship with your kids that you’ve always wanted.
Do you want to create lasting behavioral change? With this blog, we’ll guide you to lead your complex kids to become independent and successful adults, which is really what parenting is all about.