Actress Wendy Davis on Building Confidence for Kids With ADHD
Hear actress Wendy Davis of Lifetime's Army Wives discuss how she works each and every day to help harness her daughter's strengths and talents. Plus, find out what you can do to help in...
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My daughter is an incredible runner. She's extremely fast and very powerful. And so she is now in training for the Junior Olympics, and that's not an easy thing. So she's learning discipline; hard work; repetitive, practical application of the particular skill that she wants to improve, and that bleeds into her schoolwork. The message that I would give to parents and single parents with learning and attention issues is find out what your kid is good at. You want to find their areas of confidence, their areas where they have a high competency level, and then build around that. So if you have a kid that's really a great baseball player, they can learn an awful lot of life lessons in the area of baseball, like how to work hard and how to ...
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My daughter is an incredible runner. She's extremely fast and very powerful. And so she is now in training for the Junior Olympics, and that's not an easy thing. So she's learning discipline; hard work; repetitive, practical application of the particular skill that she wants to improve, and that bleeds into her schoolwork. The message that I would give to parents and single parents with learning and attention issues is find out what your kid is good at. You want to find their areas of confidence, their areas where they have a high competency level, and then build around that. So if you have a kid that's really a great baseball player, they can learn an awful lot of life lessons in the area of baseball, like how to work hard and how to ...
