3rd Things…Doing Cogmed with Your Preschooler Might be Next

With parenting young children the timing of what you focus upon can seem confusing. You can’t focus on all things at the same time. I will help you with this issue for your ADHD child today. Here is your simple “to do list” as a parent of an ADHD child. Parenting young children conceptually can be simple. It is the execution that is the challenge. Here is our critical conceptual list: Stop aggression. ...

3rd Things…Doing Cogmed with Your Preschooler Might be Next

July 16th, 2010 | ADHD Doctor Dad, ADHD Help, ADHD and Me, ADHD child, Child Behavior Chart, Parenting Young Children | Read More

Parenting Young Children: Behavior Chart Served with An Empathic Bond

Two things your child needs: an empathic connection with you and systematic, specific and accurate feedback. Give him empathy without accurate feedback and he begins in the world with delusions of his greatness. This will likely blossom into the notion that the world revolves around him. Critical feedback...

July 15th, 2010 | ADHD Doctor Dad, ADHD Help, ADHD child, Child Behavior Chart, Child Behavior Modification, Parenting Young Children | Read More

What having a friend looks like, Scientifically…

Since I review a lot of research, finding unusual studies with unique methods captures my attention. This study, though it is small, (it studied 56 sixth-grade pairs), has a high level of intrigue for me1. The reason for this is the methodology they used to study these children. They recorded video tape...

May 27th, 2010 | Parenting Young Children | Read More

2nd things, Got ADHD? Got a friend? You Need One.

It’s not good enough to simply stop the aggression. He has to have a friend too, and a good friend at that. If you’re still concerned about my last blog post in which I focused on: First Things First Stop Aggression in ADHD Children then you need to get in touch with me. If you’re in...

May 20th, 2010 | ADHD Help, Parenting Young Children | Read More

First Things First Stop Aggression in ADHD Children

Here is the logic on a conceptual level. Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder are precursors of substance abuse and dependence in ADHD teens. Conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder are both at their core related to aggression. So, the logic is clear if you prevent conduct...

May 20th, 2010 | Anger Management for Children | Read More

Prevention, Critical Best Traditional ADHD Treatment NOT SO GOOD

Just as I did last week I am doing something rare in this blog. I am redirecting you to another one of my blogs for part 2 of one of the most important posts I have ever done on ADHD treatment. Here is the link on the stunning detailed review of results of the most important study on ADHD treatment ever...

May 19th, 2010 | Anger Management for Children | Read More

ADHD and “social disability” Is there enough support to take it seriously?

The short answer is Yes. As I noted in my last blog post: “Yes, you can have an influence and potentially prevent the worst outcomes for children with ADHD. Ironically it is not directly with ADHD symptoms but those often associated with it. “ My primary point in that last post was this:”Preventing...

May 17th, 2010 | Anger Management for Children | Read More

BEST ADHD Treatment Study EVER Worse on 91% of the variables, Part 1

Today I will do something rare. I will redirect you to another one of my blogs for possibly the most important post I have ever done on ADHD treatment. Here is the link on the stunning results of the most important study on ADHD treatment ever done. Normally I will write distinct posts for all of my...

May 14th, 2010 | Uncategorized | Read More

Since He Won’t Outgrow ADHD can I prevent the worst outcomes?

Yes, you can have an influence and potentially prevent the worst outcomes for children with ADHD. Ironically it is not directly with ADHD symptoms but those often associated with it. Those are called co-morbid problems. This simply means problems which are associated with ADHD. They co-occur or are...

May 14th, 2010 | Parenting Young Children | Read More

ADHD Disruptive Behavior can be Treated, Implications for Prevention

The concept of prevention is defined in this way: Reducing vulnerability and protecting against cumulative risk in the developmental period must take into account the particular factors that are most relevant for the outcomes of interest. Let’s use this as a guiding principle. In my previous...

May 13th, 2010 | Anger Management for Children, Parenting Young Children | Read More