We have discussed parents who do not have ADHD, but do have and ADHD child, families with one parent who is neurotypical and one who has ADHD. Now we’re going to cover families with two parents who have ADHD. This, in my experience is relatively rare,but still has a lot of the same issues multiplied by having the whole family be ADHD.

The most common pattern I’ve seen in ADHD families is when one parent is ADHD and the other parent is neurotypical. This pattern is characterized by the neurotypical parent frequently feeling  like he/she is overworked and responsible for keeping the whole family on track. He/she is responsible for keeping track of all the appointment, usually also paying the bills, making arrangements for vacations and scheduling appointments. There is frequently a lot of resentment in these situations. One woman described it as feeling like she had an extra child. The ADHD parent frequently feels that he?she doesn’t get any respect. In this episode I’ll be discussing these relationships and some ways to regain comfort and satisfaction in the marital relationship.

As the parent of an ADHD child, your relationship is bound to be tricky. Sometimes you’ll be happy and enjoying your ADHDer’s sense of humor and antics and the next you’ll be upset and anxious because of a temper tantrum or frustrated by finding out that the two weeks of homework you worked over with your child never got turned in to the teacher. I’ll be presenting some of methods for recovering your calm and improving your relation ship with your ADHDer.

ADHDers are well known for having difficulties with emotional regulation. In spite of ADHD being a neurologic condition, there are still measures that can be taken to improve emotional control. In this sessions I’ll deal with some of these techniques.

It's probably the fault of our educational system that we all think that intelligence, as measured mainly by memory, is the most important skill for having a successful life. Success, especially for our ADHD kids has more to do with resilience, the ability to learn from mistakes and make improvements, than their grade point average or their standardized score on an intelligence test.

This is a continuation of an earlier episode detailing some specific procedures ADHD parents can follow to help their child succeed and have a happier home life.

To successfully parent your ADHD trial the most important player is you. That is, you have to be able to control yourself and change your behavior to get the behavior you want from your child. You are the only part of the Parent-child dyad that you control. You have to control yourself behavior to influence your child’s behavior.

Being the parent of an ADHD child is, at best, a stressful experience. Parenting is generally stressful, parenting an ADHD child is even more so. In an ADHD family most of the attention goes to the child and the parents needs are often ignored.I’m going to cover the basics of stress management for all you ADHD parents.

Family is always important when raising children. It is especially important when raising a child with ADHD. Family is where an ADHD child starts to develop self-acceptance and resilience. It is also where organization and structure are taught. ADHDers have trouble with executive functioning so it is important that they learn good executive habits in the home.

In this internet era, anyone with an opinion can broadcast it to the world. Those of us on the receiving end have to be able to determine if this opinion is true. In this recent political situation with its “tell the same lie until they believe it” mentality, it’s even more important that we are able to determine truth from opinion or outright lie. Fortunately, science has always been focused on determining truth. I’ll try to help you determine if a given statement or treatment recommendation is true or not.