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...

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...

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...

Ground yourself in facts in your thinking about ADHD. If you are overwhelmed with information on ADHD online this post will help you. There seems to be an overwhelming number of problems associated with ADHD. Is my child at greater risk for all that? A deeper look will ease some of those fears and clarify...

I am a clinical psychologist with degrees from Harvard, Notre Dame and DePaul Universities, but more importantly I am a dad. My son has ADHD.  We spent over 7 years researching and trying different approaches.  My son is now excelling with a 98% average in high school.  I will share what I have learned...

Parents, including me, like to kid themselves:  He’s just all boy.  He’s really active.  He has a “hunter mentality”.  Yet you know in your heart that he is a little different and you hope they won’t notice or that it is not really that bad. With brighter kids like my...

ADHD teens face what “ADHD Doctor Dad”, Charles Shinaver, PhD, calls:  sex, Rx drug abuse, academic underachievement, car accidents, injuries and rock n’ roll.  A difficulty with managing impulses or inhibiting their responses puts ADHD teens in a difficult place.  This means that the typical...