Guidelines for Parents

Create positive alternative choices based on your child's purposes and encourage him to make a choice.    Example: If you want him to finish a project, say "Would you like ten minutes or fifteen to finish your project?" or;   If you want him to get his homework (Read More...)

The effects of Vitamin & Mineral Supplements

Diet and ADHD

ADD & Driving

Communicating With an ADD Child

How to get your kid to do what YOU want, when YOU want them to do it

 What does not work:

-         being “democratic”, negotiating, compromising

-         being sarcastic, arguing, physically hitting them (Read More...)

Managing ADD In Families

1. Get an accurate diagnosis. This is the starting point of all treatment for ADD.

2. Educate the family. All members of the family need to learn the facts about ADD as the first step in the treatment. Many prob­lems will take care of themselves once all family members under-stand what is going on. The education process should take place with the entire family, if possible. Each member of the family will have questions. Make sure all these questions get answered. (Read More...)

Ways in Which Parents Think About Parenting

Although numerous studies on the treatment of ADHD have been conducted, most have been limited to examining the effectiveness of particular treatments (e.g. medication, behavioral therapy, neurofeedback, dietary interventions, etc.) without regard to how aspects of parents’ thinking may impact treatment outcome.  Because parents are ultimately responsible for implementing prescribed treatments, it is possible that how parents think about themselves and their child could influence children’s outcomes through the influence these beliefs have on parents’ willingness/ability to consistently implement the treatments that have been recommended. (Read More...)

How Self Esteem May Effect Parenting

For mothers, self-esteem emerged as a significant predictor of child treatment response.  The authors speculate that perhaps mothers with low self-esteem experience doubts about their parenting ability, thus making them prone to engage in dysfunctional disciplinary practices which have a negative affect on child outcome.  Among fathers, those with higher feelings of parental efficacy, and were less prone to blame children's non-compliance on poor effort and/or bad mood, had children who were doing better. (Read More...)

Sports Behavior In ADD Children

Although considerable research on the social behavior and peer relations of children with ADHD has been published in recent years, I have not seen any studies examining the behavior of children with ADHD in the context of athletic activities. Participation in sports is an important activity for children, as success in sports can have positive effects on their peer relations, self-esteem, and social development. Therefore, studies of how children with ADHD tend to fare in this context are important to conduct. (Read More...)

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