Parenting a Child With ADHD: Being More ADHD-Friendly
The world is made for people without ADHD, which can make life really hard for kids who struggle with attention. (And it's not so easy parenting a child with ADHD either!) These kids can benefit...
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When you focus on ADHD-friendly, you're looking at solutions rather than problems, and that makes everything look different. You know, you change one thing and it changes everything. ADHD-friendly works with the ADHD brain instead of against it. If you have shoes that you don't have to tie a bow on, because of fine motor skills and sensory issues, that's an ADHD-friendly type thing to do. If you can get slip-on shoes rather than ties. If you are having a conversation, someone changes topics because they have ADHD and you have a hard time following, an ADHD-friendly thing to say would be, "Tell me a little bit about where we're going with it." So ADHD-friendly would be having a stand-up desk in the classroom, so kids can stand u...
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When you focus on ADHD-friendly, you're looking at solutions rather than problems, and that makes everything look different. You know, you change one thing and it changes everything. ADHD-friendly works with the ADHD brain instead of against it. If you have shoes that you don't have to tie a bow on, because of fine motor skills and sensory issues, that's an ADHD-friendly type thing to do. If you can get slip-on shoes rather than ties. If you are having a conversation, someone changes topics because they have ADHD and you have a hard time following, an ADHD-friendly thing to say would be, "Tell me a little bit about where we're going with it." So ADHD-friendly would be having a stand-up desk in the classroom, so kids can stand u...
