Taming Emotional Triggers with an ADHD Brain: How to understand big feelings and respond differently

When you live with ADHD, you live with the challenge of managing strong emotions. Whether you are a child, teen or adult, it can be tough to regulate how you process your feelings–psychologically, cognitively or behaviorally. The ADHD brain, with its ‘now/not now’ orientation, may … Continue reading Taming Emotional Triggers with an ADHD Brain: How to understand big feelings and respond differently

Parenting Neurodivergent Kids with a Growth Mindset: How you can take ‘failure’ out of your vocabulary

With the start of a new year comes an opportunity to pivot. This year, I’m recommending that you eliminate the word ‘failure’ from any description of your parenting and replace it with ‘efforting.’ Failure is generally defined as a lack of success, and there’s a finality … Continue reading Parenting Neurodivergent Kids with a Growth Mindset: How you can take ‘failure’ out of your vocabulary