Kids at camp: an ADHD parent’s guide to the quiet weeks
Parents of children with ADHD are more than four times as likely as other parents to experience parental burnout, in part because the role demands being “on” around the clock with few real breaks. Camp may be the only multi-week break you get all year. If you spend it doomscrolling, deep-cleaning, or refreshing the camp photo portal, you hand back the one resource burnout research says you need most: genuine recovery. What you do with these weeks shapes the parent who shows up in August.