Category: ADHD Parenting

Posts relating to raising a child with ADHD. Topics will include teaching time management, creating boundaries, requesting school accommodations, emotional regulation and more.

ADHD Children and Halloween

ADHD Children And Halloween Challenges and Tips     If you have ADHD children – or other neurodivergent-brained children – Halloween can be a bit….tricky.  Sugar highs, sensory issues, disruptions to schedules and more can lead to melt downs, shut downs, emotional dysregulation, and more.  From parents and from kids!  Let’s chat about some of… Continue reading ADHD Children and Halloween

ADHD and Sleep: Tips for Establishing Healthy Routines

ADHD and Sleep Tips For Establishing Healthy Routines     Last year (I think) I wrote a blog about what I refer to as your “Core Four.” These are the four things that I find to be especially important to functioning properly when you have ADHD. Those are movement, rest, hydration, and nourishment.  You can… Continue reading ADHD and Sleep: Tips for Establishing Healthy Routines

Set Your ADHD Student Up For Success: Create The Perfect Study Space

Set Your ADHD Student Up For Success Create The Perfect Study Space     Around here, September brings back to school time.  For parents and caregivers of ADHD students, this can be a hectic and stressful time. We all want our students to be successful in their learning, whether they are in traditional school or… Continue reading Set Your ADHD Student Up For Success: Create The Perfect Study Space

ADHD Connected Parent – Saying Yes To Yes

ADHD Connected Parent – Saying Yes To Saying Yes   I met a new friend recently, and during the course of our first breakfast meeting, she mentioned that this was her year of saying yes.  What an amazing idea.  As I was reflecting on our conversation, I started thinking about how often I was told… Continue reading ADHD Connected Parent – Saying Yes To Yes

Tips For Parents of ADHD Kids – Getting Your Kid To Do Important Things

  Book A Call With ADHD Coach Kat Today   Tips For Parents Of ADHD Children   Getting Your Kids To DO Important Things   Let’s chat about some tips!   Last month, I gave you a blog about WHY you can’t always get your ADHD kiddo to do the things that are important. Even… Continue reading Tips For Parents of ADHD Kids – Getting Your Kid To Do Important Things

Why Won’t My ADHD Child Do Important Things

Why Won’t My Kid Do Important Things? If I had a nickel for every time a parent asked me, “Why won’t my kid do important things?” – I’d have a lot of nickels!   Does this sound like you?  I can’t get my child to wash their hair/brush their teeth/etc without a battle even when… Continue reading Why Won’t My ADHD Child Do Important Things

ADHD Affirmations

Book A Call With Kat Today ADHD Affirmations         If you or your child has ADHD, one of the most important things you can do for yourself (or them) is to start using positive ADHD affirmations as regularly as possible.   I’m not sure I can emphasize how important this is in… Continue reading ADHD Affirmations

ADHD Teens and Career Exploration Tips

Book A Call With Kat Today   Career Exploration Tips for your ADHD Teen   Last month we chatted about the differences in the ADHD brain that may contribute to your teen or young adult struggling with career exploration – or the dreaded “what I want to do when I grow up?”  If you haven’t… Continue reading ADHD Teens and Career Exploration Tips

ADHD Students, IEPs, 504s, and More

Book A Call With Kat Today ADHD and IEPs, 504s and More   If your child has ADHD, chances are you’ve heard of IEPs, 504s, BIPs, DBT, and all types of plans and acronyms.  But you may not really understand all the lingo the schools throw at you.  What does your child need? What are… Continue reading ADHD Students, IEPs, 504s, and More