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How do you define summertime success? When the kids (and/or you) have ADHD, summertime can be a double edge sword. On one hand, the stress of school is over and with that comes a welcome opportunity to exhale.

On the other hand, the structurelessness of summer can also mean that the kids are home, bored, and looking for entertainment (often too much video game time).

ELAINE & DIANE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

“Summer was the opportunity for them to learn because they are quintessentially experiential learners.”

Summertime Success

Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus join me in this episode to explore how to have summertime success with your complex kids. They share with me the three tips below, but you can access more, for free, by clicking on the image below to receive your Parent's Guide to Motivation. I did get them to share one of the 10 on the show! But no spoiler alerts here, you'll have to listen in to our conversation and hear it for yourself. Plus, these two have so much expertise to share, I know you'll have many take aways, I sure did.

Here are 3 tips on how to have summertime success with your kids with ADHD. Listen for details on each:

1) Spend time, in some way, exploring the world with your kids

2) Set some intention

3) Communicate with your child

~ Jennie

Links:

Parent’s Guide to Motivation —  download (free)

Diane Dempster

Diane Dempster

Click to view: show page on Awesound

How do you define summertime success? When the kids (and/or you) have ADHD, summertime can be a double edge sword. On one hand, the stress of school is over and with that comes a welcome opportunity to exhale.

On the other hand, the structurelessness of summer can also mean that the kids are home, bored, and looking for entertainment (often too much video game time).

ELAINE & DIANE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

“Summer was the opportunity for them to learn because they are quintessentially experiential learners.”

Summertime Success

Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus join me in this episode to explore how to have summertime success with your complex kids. They share with me the three tips below, but you can access more, for free, by clicking on the image below to receive your Parent's Guide to Motivation. I did get them to share one of the 10 on the show! But no spoiler alerts here, you'll have to listen in to our conversation and hear it for yourself. Plus, these two have so much expertise to share, I know you'll have many take aways, I sure did.

Here are 3 tips on how to have summertime success with your kids with ADHD. Listen for details on each:

1) Spend time, in some way, exploring the world with your kids

2) Set some intention

3) Communicate with your child

~ Jennie

Links:

Parent’s Guide to Motivation —  download (free)

Diane Dempster

Diane Dempster

Click to view: show page on Awesound

How do you define summertime success? When the kids (and/or you) have ADHD, summertime can be a double edge sword. On one hand, the stress of school is over and with that comes a welcome opportunity to exhale.

On the other hand, the structurelessness of summer can also mean that the kids are home, bored, and looking for entertainment (often too much video game time).

ELAINE & DIANE'S AWESOME QUOTE:

“Summer was the opportunity for them to learn because they are quintessentially experiential learners.”

Summertime Success

Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus join me in this episode to explore how to have summertime success with your complex kids. They share with me the three tips below, but you can access more, for free, by clicking on the image below to receive your Parent's Guide to Motivation. I did get them to share one of the 10 on the show! But no spoiler alerts here, you'll have to listen in to our conversation and hear it for yourself. Plus, these two have so much expertise to share, I know you'll have many take aways, I sure did.

Here are 3 tips on how to have summertime success with your kids with ADHD. Listen for details on each:

1) Spend time, in some way, exploring the world with your kids

2) Set some intention

3) Communicate with your child

~ Jennie

Links:

Parent’s Guide to Motivation —  download (free)

Diane Dempster

Diane Dempster

Click to view: show page on Awesound

Mark Williams grew up being told he was "thick and stupid". He knew he wasn't, but he did suffer from anxiety and dyslexia, which looked like panic attacks and learning problems. So, school was hard and employment was too. Fast forward, he eventually married the love of his life and together they had a baby. But what came next turned their lives upside down.

After a traumatic birth, his wife suffered postpartum depression. Soon afterwards, Mark too plunged into despair. Finally though, after seeing many doctors, at age 41, he got his diagnosis. Mark has ADHD. And with treatment came a new outlook on life and a new passion to help others who suffer just as he did.

MARK'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Fight! Fight for yourself and get the right diagnosis."

Fathers' Mental Health

I applaud Mark's efforts in helping to create International Father's Mental Health Day in the UK. in order to help raise awareness on men's mental health, specifically father's issues. My own dad fell victim to his bi-polar depression after going off his medication, committing suicide in 1987. His was the worst possible outcome.

All dads suffer a special mix of stress because of the interrelationships that come with family. But when their biological make up includes any disease or disorder, that compounds the stress. As we increase awareness and access to mental health services, the potential for successful outcomes like Mark's aren't just possible, they're probable. And after all, our dads and families deserve that!

Mark Williams does all he can to focus on fathers' mental health issues. He even created Reaching Out, when he saw first hand, the need for support for men who experience postpartum depression. He explains it's like giving permission to open up as a father. Please be sure to check out his website, or Tweet him!

~ Jennie

Links:

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

Click to view: show page on Awesound

Mark Williams grew up being told he was "thick and stupid". He knew he wasn't, but he did suffer from anxiety and dyslexia, which looked like panic attacks and learning problems. So, school was hard and employment was too. Fast forward, he eventually married the love of his life and together they had a baby. But what came next turned their lives upside down.

After a traumatic birth, his wife suffered postpartum depression. Soon afterwards, Mark too plunged into despair. Finally though, after seeing many doctors, at age 41, he got his diagnosis. Mark has ADHD. And with treatment came a new outlook on life and a new passion to help others who suffer just as he did.

MARK'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Fight! Fight for yourself and get the right diagnosis."

Fathers' Mental Health

I applaud Mark's efforts in helping to create International Father's Mental Health Day in the UK. in order to help raise awareness on men's mental health, specifically father's issues. My own dad fell victim to his bi-polar depression after going off his medication, committing suicide in 1987. His was the worst possible outcome.

All dads suffer a special mix of stress because of the interrelationships that come with family. But when their biological make up includes any disease or disorder, that compounds the stress. As we increase awareness and access to mental health services, the potential for successful outcomes like Mark's aren't just possible, they're probable. And after all, our dads and families deserve that!

Mark Williams does all he can to focus on fathers' mental health issues. He even created Reaching Out, when he saw first hand, the need for support for men who experience postpartum depression. He explains it's like giving permission to open up as a father. Please be sure to check out his website, or Tweet him!

~ Jennie

Links:

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

Click to view: show page on Awesound

Mark Williams grew up being told he was "thick and stupid". He knew he wasn't, but he did suffer from anxiety and dyslexia, which looked like panic attacks and learning problems. So, school was hard and employment was too. Fast forward, he eventually married the love of his life and together they had a baby. But what came next turned their lives upside down.

After a traumatic birth, his wife suffered postpartum depression. Soon afterwards, Mark too plunged into despair. Finally though, after seeing many doctors, at age 41, he got his diagnosis. Mark has ADHD. And with treatment came a new outlook on life and a new passion to help others who suffer just as he did.

MARK'S AWESOME QUOTE:

"Fight! Fight for yourself and get the right diagnosis."

Fathers' Mental Health

I applaud Mark's efforts in helping to create International Father's Mental Health Day in the UK. in order to help raise awareness on men's mental health, specifically father's issues. My own dad fell victim to his bi-polar depression after going off his medication, committing suicide in 1987. His was the worst possible outcome.

All dads suffer a special mix of stress because of the interrelationships that come with family. But when their biological make up includes any disease or disorder, that compounds the stress. As we increase awareness and access to mental health services, the potential for successful outcomes like Mark's aren't just possible, they're probable. And after all, our dads and families deserve that!

Mark Williams does all he can to focus on fathers' mental health issues. He even created Reaching Out, when he saw first hand, the need for support for men who experience postpartum depression. He explains it's like giving permission to open up as a father. Please be sure to check out his website, or Tweet him!

~ Jennie

Links:

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

Click to view: show page on Awesound

My dad passed too soon. Back in 1987, he committed suicide after going off his medication for bi-polar. I miss him every day, but Father's Day, perhaps, especially.

In this episode, I had a wonderful conversation with Mark Williams, known on Twitter as @adadwithadhd. In it, he shares his soul, which I hope brings you the hope you deserve if his story resonates with you.

I'm releasing this as episode 60.5 today and again tomorrow as episode 61. Tomorrow, in the UK, is International Father's Mental Health Day. As a tribute to all father's struggling with mental health issues, as my dad did, listen and know, you aren't alone.

We are all in this together.

~ Jennie

Links:

Mark Williams

Click to view: show page on Awesound