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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ADHD co-morbid disorders are problems which co-occur with ADHD. They are not caused by ADHD. According to Mental Help.net 60-80% of children with ADHD have comorbid disorders.   This website at Mental Help.net provided me with data for several other areas of co-morbid problems noted below with the exception...

Many ADHD Co-Morbidities are Worse than ADHD Itself This is a profound insight. When I looked at the long term outcome data on ADHD I came to that striking conclusion which bears repeating: Many ADHD co-morbidities are worse than ADHD itself. Think about it. What’s worse, being addicted to alcohol,...

In my next few posts I will review what I consider to be the “Nagging problems of ADHD treatment”. I covered this topic of the Nagging Problems of ADHD Treatment in a lengthy form on one of my other blogs called www.Clarity4Mind.com. Here I will give it to you in bite size pieces. NAGGING PROBLEM...

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...