ADHDers of all ages struggle to troubleshoot problem behaviors and develop good habits. Parents can have an especially hard time helping kids with this while barely muddling through ourselves. We recently tried a new strategy with our six-year-old. I’ve written before that I prefer intrinsic motivation and natural consequences. However, parents of kiddos with ADHD […]
Category: Parenting
ADHD & our morning routine: why I taught my kid to wake up on his own
My six-year-old recently woke me up in the early-morning hours. It was still dark outside and I was snuggled under a stack of blankets, fast asleep. He was doing me a huge favor. “It’s 6:34.” His tone was part confused, part admonishing. It was a school morning, after all. We should’ve been up and getting […]
Reframing household tension when others’ ADHD negatively impacts us
Editor’s note: this post was updated on June 9, 2021 to include audio narration, remove ableist language from the title, and make minor readability edits. Life with ADHD gets really hard sometimes. That includes our own ADHD and all the ADHD under our roof. We’re all human. Every once in a while, the ADHDers in […]