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.

The House and Human Services department under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently issued a report on ADHD that appears poised to radically change treatment options and thoroughly confuse the whole area of ADHD.
This is an amazingly sophomoric report put together by people who had a certain point of view they wanted to support - or they were so inept at interpreting and understanding research that they ended up challenging virtually all the research findings about ADHD.
This report is so wrong in so many ways. Scientists have spent many years researching ADHD and the scientific findings are vastly different than what is presented in the report.
If we accept this report, it will deny much of the knowledge we have about ADHD - from causes -  to understanding what it is - to effective treatment. 

One of the big problems for the ADHD brain is boredom. Unfortunately, many, if not most tasks at certain levels of both education and employment are just plain boring. Neurotypicals just have an easier time with these tasks than ADHDers. There are some strategies that ADHDers have to learn, other than avoidance. I will cover some of the basics of coping with boredom-behaviorally and cognitively.

This is our second show about diagnoses that are frequently seen with ADHD. Some are associated with stress of having an ADHD brain in a society that is largely designed for neurotypical brains and some have more to do with genetics.

ADHDers have a unique cognitive style, but the society they live in is not designed to reward or reinforce this cognitive. This causes a lot of distress, doubt, sadness and frustration. These sometimes approach levels to the extent that they need to be diagnosed and treated. In this first of two parts I’ll cover part of this dilemma.

Many people think emotions are not under their control. I often comment that I could convince people that they can lose 50 pounds in 4 weeks than that they have control over their emotions and can change them. Emotions are mostly trained by home environment. But what has been trained can be changed using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I will cover the basics of this technique—how to use it yourself and how to use it with your ADHD child.