Parenting an ADHD Child: Strategies for Success

📚 Become an expert on ADHD by reading widely and integrating reliable information from various sources.

🧪 Experiment with different strategies and interventions to find what works best for your child with ADHD.

🔎 Be skeptical of misinformation and unreliable sources, and seek out reliable information from multiple sources.

💪 Take ownership of your child's ADHD and embrace the challenges as an executive parent.

🧠 ADHD is not the entirety of a person's identity and does not determine their gifts or talents.

⚽️ Finding and embracing other talents and strengths can compensate for the challenges of ADHD.

🧑‍🏫 Parents of children with ADHD should take charge of advocacy and decision-making in educational settings.

🔑 Parents need to advocate for their children and ask questions instead of passively listening.

📘 Families raising disabled children can benefit from reading Covey's 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families.'

🧠 Parents do not have complete control over designing their children and the level of stimulation in their environment.

👶 Your child is born with more than 400 psychological traits that are independent of your influence.

🐑 View yourself as a shepherd, guiding and nourishing your child's development, but not engineering their traits.

🏠 Out-of-home influences, such as peer groups and neighborhoods, have a greater impact on your child's life course than in-home influences.

🔑 Parenting has limited influence on a child's behavior and personality traits, with the peak years of parental influence being below age 7 and decreasing after age 15.

💡 There is no correlation between the traits of an adopted child and the people who raise them, indicating that parenting does not have a significant impact on a child's characteristics.

🚫 To effectively raise a child with ADHD, it is important to be consistent with rules and consequences, provide immediate consequences instead of nagging, and use physical touch to get their attention.

⏰ Parents of ADHD children should set timers to regularly check on their child's location and prevent accidents.

🔢 ADHD children have a shorter attention span, so it is recommended to break work into smaller tasks and take frequent breaks.

⏱️ Instead of giving extra time on exams, using a stopwatch to allow for breaks and movement is a more effective accommodation for ADHD students.

🔄 Parents should be proactive in transitioning between activities and create a structured environment for their ADHD child.

💡 Setting up clear rules, incentives, and punishments for a child with ADHD in different activities.

🔄 Distributing consequences throughout the task to maintain engagement and offer frequent rewards for progress.

🔍 Using behavior monitoring cards to evaluate and track the child's behavior in various settings, allowing for increased accountability.