Helpful Advice for ADHD Parents

Parenting When You Have ADHD Yourself

Raising a child with ADHD is challenging for any parent. But consistency, organization, and follow-through become much harder when you have ADHD yourself. How can you overcome this double challenge to your family?

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Parenting a Child with ADHD - This fact sheet from CHADD's National Resource Center on ADHD is a great place to start. As a parent, you can help create home and school environments that improve your child's chances for success.

Psychosocial Treatment for Children and Adolescents with ADHD - Behavior modification is the only nonmedical treatment for AD/HD with a large scientific-evidence base.

Emotional Stressors of Parenting Children with ADHD - The key is to take care of yourself so that you can take care of your child with ADHD.

Rearview Mirrors - You did then, what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.

Look to Their Gifts: First in a Series about Mothering Children with ADHD - How you, the parent, react to your child’s diagnosis is critical to how that child will perceive and deal with his or her condition.

Consider Their Future: Second in a Series about Mothering Children with ADHD - Once you see the excessive activity or impulsivity or lack of ability to pay attention or focus, you need to have your child tested. Trying to deny the existence of AD/HD doesn’t work.

Raising Children with ADHD When You Have ADHD Yourself: Implications, Issues, and Interventions - The first step is to be sure the parent who has symptoms of ADHD gets diagnosed and treated. You will find it much easier to become an effective parent.

When ADHD is All in the Family - Cynthia Hammer writes about her experience as an adult with ADHD and as a parent of children with ADHD.

From Definace to Compliance: What Parents Need to Know to Transform Resistance into Obedience - Imagine how much easier life would be if your child actually complied with your commands without first making you maneuver through an obstacle course of resistance and conflict.

Suviving the Ride: Parenting Teens with ADHD - Parenting a teen with ADHD may be compared to riding a roller coaster.

A Study in Contrasts - Mmy experience with AD/HD is a study in contrasts. When my daughter was growing up, she struggled with oppositionality—which meant we all struggled with oppositionality.

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Especially For Parents is CHADD's website area full of parenting information on every aspect of ADHD.

Parent to Parent is a CHADD-sponsored seven-week class designed to give parents all the tools and skills they need to successfully manage ADHD within the family.