ADDitude Magazine: “Dear Teen Parenting Coach: How Can We Stop Our Teen’s After-School Explosions?” When ADHD meds wear off, teenagers can switch from calm and collected to angry, rude, and defiant. Here, our Teen Parenting Coach explains how parents can prepare for this post-medication crash, … Continue reading ADDitude Magazine: "How Can We Stop Our Teen’s After-School Explosions?"
Tag: ADHD
ImpactADHD: 5 Steps to Improve Cooperation with Your Kids with ADHD
Are you pulling your hair out trying to think of ways to reduce your frustration and improve your child’s cooperation? Do you wonder why charts, reminders and incentives don’t seem to get your kids to do the stuff they need to do, especially when they … Continue reading ImpactADHD: 5 Steps to Improve Cooperation with Your Kids with ADHD
Manage Anxiety in Your ADHD Kids
This month’s blog is actually an interview that I had with the team at ImpactADHD. com. It focuses on building resilience and competency as a way to help ADHD kids manage their anxiety. Check it out! http://impactadhd.com/manage-emotions-and-impulses/kids-with-anxiety/
Reduce Holiday Overwhelm–Simplify!
Despite our best intentions, it seems like most families are frequently more stressed by the holiday season that they would like. Between our regular responsibilities of work, parenting and other life tasks, we now add shopping for gifts, planning family celebrations, attending holiday parties and … Continue reading Reduce Holiday Overwhelm–Simplify!
Interview w/ Maggie Wray Ph.D: Unstoppable Teens | Helping teens develop the skills they need
Interview w/ Maggie Wray Ph.D: Unstoppable Teens | Helping teens develop the skills they need Click logo below to listen.
Creating incentives that work
Creating Incentives that Work: How to do you get your child or teen to do things around the house? Do you ask your daughter nicely to set the table at first but then resort to yelling when she won’t get off her phone? Do you calmly … Continue reading Creating incentives that work
Change Writing Challenges into Writing Successes
Over the years, I have noticed that many, many ADHD kids seem to have trouble with writing. While some kids like it because it is a venue for expressing their many ideas quickly and creatively, others despise it because getting even a few words on … Continue reading Change Writing Challenges into Writing Successes
Avoid holiday stress: Practice gratitude with your ADHD child
It’s that holiday time of the year again. In all of the hustle and bustle to plan get togethers, shop for presents, wrap them and prepare festive meals, we sometimes are just too busy to stop and consider the blessings in our lives. I am not talking … Continue reading Avoid holiday stress: Practice gratitude with your ADHD child
Frustrated and fed up? Use the the 5 C’s of ADHD Parenting!
Parents often ask me for the keys to raise their ADHD kids into effective, happy adults. Sometimes it’s hard for them to see that the struggles of today will eventually transform into the successes of tomorrow. Between the daily reminders about organization, homework completion, doing … Continue reading Frustrated and fed up? Use the the 5 C’s of ADHD Parenting!
MCPAP: More than Prescribing: Five Ways Primary Care Providers Can Help Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Their Families
MCPAP: More than Prescribing: Five Ways Primary Care Providers Can Help Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Their Families Anne* and her husband, Victor, came into my office for an initial parent visit looking tired and worried. Their daughter, Olivia, aged 9, had … Continue reading MCPAP: More than Prescribing: Five Ways Primary Care Providers Can Help Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Their Families