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
Ask Your Kids
Ask Your Kids (Where They Need Your Help) My daughter was completing a questionnaire for her HS guidance counselor, and…
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Overcoming Grief Starts with 3 Steps
Your relationship with your child began long before pregnancy or adoption: you envisioned what it would be like, you dreamed…
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Hide Healthy Foods
With thanks to the moms on my list-serve, here are many tips to add some nutrition into the diet of…
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Executive Function and Quiche
Sometimes you just have to laugh… My fourteen year old and his Dad are both challenged with similar executive function…
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Say More With Less
In coaching training they teach that if you hear yourself talking a lot, you’re probably talking too much. You’ll find…
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Video: Distraction & Depression
If you’re an adult living with that wicked combination of ADHD & Depression, take a few minutes to watch and listen…
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Prioritizing – What's Most Important ?
As parents, we tend to get attached to outcomes like finished homework and completed chores. Everything about our kids’ behavior…
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Five Simple Steps to Healthy Living
It’s summertime, and our theme this month is Impact on the Parent’s Life. We wanted to share with you this…
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Golf and Mental Athletics – A Perfect Pair
When I took the position of Director of Golf Instruction at Luke AFB in Arizona, the General looked me in…
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.