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Life Tools: Discovering Your Toolbox
Can you imagine if young adults were to embark on the world of college, marriage, partnership and…
A Letter to My ADHD Teenager (About to Leave Home)
I wrote this (many years ago now) at 2:00 a.m. when a fit of panic replaced a…
A Team Effort: Managing a Family with ADHD
ADHD is often inherited. If your children have ADHD, it is likely that you, your spouse, or…
Is it Good for Kids to Deal with Rejection?
Kids & Rejection – Moderation in Everything As with so many things in parenting, the answer to…
How to Get Siblings to Love Each Other
Airport Epiphanies Recently, my kids were seeing each other off at the airport after a particularly special…
Sibling Challenges with Complex Kids: How to Handle Complaints Like “It’s Not Fair”
How do you deal with sibling challenges and complaints like “It’s not fair!”? Article continues below… What’s…
Helping Siblings in a Family with ADHD
Siblings fight – we wish it didn’t happen, but sometimes there’s nothing we can do. Or is…
Dinner with an ADHD Family
Curbing Your Frustration I had one of those classic moments of insight at the dinner table last…
Plan Important Conversations
It’s Not Just What You Say, But When (And Where) You Say It Sometimes, we need to…
Improve Communication with Complex Kids and Teens
It’s easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you’re constantly talking past each other, especially…
A Huge “A-ha” Moment: Set Realistic Expectations for ADHD Kids
When Everything Starts to Make Sense Challenges with Executive Function have many implications for the ADHDer in…
Getting Complex Kids to Help Around the House
A Tip For Every Parent Just to be clear – this is EVERY parent’s challenge – with…












