Household Maintenance

What to say instead of “I feel like you don’t care the house is a mess.”

Our little ADHD household is in a strange season. With summer came a transition from Pandemic Mode into Let’s-Do-What-We-Can-While-We-Can Mode. On one hand, I know I need to stretch a little more than I normally would. We don’t know what the fall holds for us. If we can safely enjoy time with family and friends […]

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Marriage & Partner Relationships Social Relationships

Why difficult conversations are worse for people with ADHD

Use the player above to listen to the text of this post. To receive expanded versions of new audio posts and other bonus content in your favorite podcast app, become a supporter of The ADHD Homestead on Patreon. Editor’s note: this post was updated to include audio narration on June 10, 2020. Difficult conversations — and by that […]

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Marriage & Partner Relationships Parenting

Firm and kind: A challenge for ADHD families.

I think I speak for most ADHD-affected households when I say, sometimes we don’t bring out the best in each other. In his book Healing ADD From the Inside Out, Dr. Daniel Amen makes a list of games people with ADHD love to play. One of them is, “I bet I can get you to hit me or yell at me.” Sound […]

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