Teens

How to Explain a School Shooting to a Young Child: What ADHD Changes

Explaining a school shooting to a young child with ADHD works best when the parent asks first what the child…

4 hours ago

Your Child Seems Anxious. Before You Treat It, Rule These Out.

Anxious behavior in a child with ADHD is a presentation, not a diagnosis. This article gives parents five conditions that…

1 month ago

Your Teen Just Repeated What Your Ex Said About You. Here’s How to Respond

Every time a child becomes the carrier of one parent's opinion of the other, they're pulled into what family researchers…

2 months ago

The Grief No One Warns You About: When Your Child’s ADHD Diagnosis Breaks Your Heart

It's 2 a.m. and you're crying again — quietly, so no one hears. The pediatrician's words keep replaying: your child…

3 months ago

When Your Child Goes to War: Understanding the ADHD Traits They Carry Into Uniform

This article is for that parent. It's an honest reckoning with the traits that travel with ADHD into uniform —…

3 months ago

With ADHD, the trouble usually isn’t how much time you have — it’s how time gets started, switched, estimated, and avoided.

Living this way works, until it doesn't. Deadline-to-deadline performance burns through adrenaline and leaves you drained even when the work…

3 months ago

Why you blame yourself for everything — and how to stop

The habit of owning every failure while crediting every success to luck is not an accurate read of reality —…

4 months ago

Cellphone etiquette when ADHD makes the obvious hard to do

Some cellphone rules should be self-evident. No scrolling at the dinner table. No phone calls in the checkout line. No…

5 months ago

Can’t pry your teen with ADHD off the screen? Start here.

Excessive gaming is associated with worsening ADHD symptoms over time, not just correlated with them. Sleep loss, reduced physical activity,…

5 months ago

Why ADHD Symptoms Wax and Wane Throughout Your Day

When you treat every hour as equally capable, you set yourself up to fail at the hardest tasks during your…

5 months ago