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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…

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ADHD Teenager | Letter to My ADHD Teenager

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…

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ADHD Family

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…

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Is it Good for Kids to Deal with Rejection?

Kids & Rejection – Moderation in Everything As with so many things in parenting, the answer to…

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get siblings to love each other

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…

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Sibling Challenges

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…

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Helping siblings in ADHD families

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…

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Dinner with an ADHD Family

Curbing Your Frustration I had one of those classic moments of insight at the dinner table last…

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Important Conversations

Plan Important Conversations

It’s Not Just What You Say, But When (And Where) You Say It Sometimes, we need to…

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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…

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set realistic expectations for adhd kids

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…

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help around the house

Getting Complex Kids to Help Around the House

A Tip For Every Parent Just to be clear – this is EVERY parent’s challenge – with…

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