ADHD Parenting
This comprehensive guide to parenting a child with ADHD won’t waste your time with run-of-the-mill advice. You need ADD-tested strategies, and here they are — everything you need to know about oppositional defiance, positive parenting, school and learning challenges, health and wellbeing, social skills, executive functions, treatment & more.
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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Top Emotion Regulation Difficulties for Youth with ADHD
Emotion regulation difficulties in youth with ADHD range from irritability to DMDD. Here, caregivers...
Teens with ADHD
Is Your Teen’s Social Media Use Dangerous?
Social media and its mental health impact on teens is of great concern, especially in light of the...
Positive Parenting
Parenting the Defiant Child
Changing patterns of negative, hostile, or defiant behavior require patience and practice. Start with...
Typical ADHD Behaviors
Fight, Flight, Freeze… or Fib?
What if your child’s lying is not evidence of a character flaw or disrespect? What if his fibs are...
Meltdowns & Anger
When His Anger Overpowers Logic — and Love
Your child needs to express his anger. It is healthy and cathartic. "But the emotion should be like a...
Positive Parenting
A Radically Positive Parenting Technique
Do you have a child with ADHD who just won’t listen or follow any rules? Is the situation so...
Screen Time
Your Child’s Screen Time Is a Privilege, Not an Entitlement
How much screen time for kids with ADHD is too much? During this pandemic, when children are learning...
ADHD Videos
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Children with oppositional defiant disorder are blatantly disobedient, disrespectful, and...
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Driving with ADHD: Pumping the Brakes on Vehicle Safety Risks
Research confirms that ADHD is a significant risk factor for motor vehicle accidents and traffic...
Free Downloads
Free Parent Resource: ADHD Discipline Strategies
Does your child melt down, act up, or outright refuse to comply? In this free download, parenting...
Rewards & Consequences
10 Behavior Chart Rewards to Motivate Your Child
There is no magic in parenting. No one gleaming reward or perfect behavior chart will convince your...
Teens with ADHD
ADHD Symptoms in Teens: Your Guide to Warning Signs & Treatments for Adolescents
With its mood swings and hormonal changes, adolescence also brings new and unnerving ADHD symptoms in...
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I Had No Safe Place. Can I Build One for My Son?
Like so many talkative, smart, socially awkward girls in the ‘80s and ‘90s, my ADHD was overlooked...
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
ODD vs. ADHD: The Facts About Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Attention Deficit
Roughly 40 percent of children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) also have oppositional...
Screen Time
Is Your Child Hooked On Video Games?
Playing a great video game is like living inside of a movie and being showered with gold coins. Is it...