Category: ADHD
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Bad Parent Tip Number 1: Stop Helicoptering Your Children and Empower Them
Did I mention that the old man and I have been going to Bad Parents Group recently, or as we like to call it, ‘support for really shit parents’? Padlock by Rudolf Vlček found on http://www.flickr.com The sessions have been an eye-opener. It turns out that kids don’t just need love after all, and you…
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I Know There Are Worst Things Than Parenting A Teenager With ADHD, But Sometimes It Doesn’t Fe
#2350944 / gettyimages.com http://www.tickld.com/x/father-finds-horrifying-letter-from-his-son-this-is-gold The story above was doing the rounds on social media last week. I get that it was meant to be funny and to most people it would have been. I did smile at the end. Bitterly. I read through the first part of the letter and a shiver ran through my…
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Do You Still Seek Your Parents Approval In Middle Age?
When you make the decision to migrate to the other side of the world like I have, your relationship with your parents inevitably changes. #148466028 / gettyimages.com My dad and I never shared what you would describe as a conventional relationship. He was twenty years old when he had me and at the time was…
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Unparalled Fear, Parallel Parking, Teenagers and ADHD
Kurt is driving. *makes sign of the cross even though atheist* #71895647 / gettyimages.com I said… another mad, irresponsible teenager has been let loose on the road. So if you are unfortunate enough to find yourself on the same piece of road as a young man in a silver Golf anywhere in the Lower North…
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There’s Equality and Then There’s Doing Stuff Together…
What I really want to do is shout from the rooftops with Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, completely over-the-top enthusiasm about Emma Watson’s recent speech for the UN, on inequality. Did you know that there are women out there declaring that they aren’t feminists because we already have equality? HELLO????? Now I know I shouldn’t…
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The Rollercoaster of Emotions Linked To ADHD
The presence of ADHD exacerbates a roller coaster of emotions for both their parents and the children themselves. Especially when the pressure’s really on. From the Library of Congress: TITLE: Thos. W. Keene. Othello CALL NUMBER: POS – TH – 1884 .O7, no. 1 (C size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC6-58 (color film copy transparency) RIGHTS INFORMATION:…
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5 Practical Tips To Get Your ADHD Child Through Exams
So, exams and children with ADHD don’t mix. If exams are stressful for the ‘normal’ child, imagine how appealing they are to the child with poor memory skills, low self-esteem and poor organisation skills; or the kid who can’t sit still for longer than fifteen minutes without fidgeting. Found on littlejuggie.tumblr.com at http://www.pinterest.com ADHD is…
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The Messy Business Of Suicide
Today I was going to give you a typically vacuous account of my spending spree yesterday for my birthday celebrations, befitting of the usual level of content on my blog; but somehow it seemed inappropriate with the news of the death of Robin Williams. Suicide? Courtesy of Bubblegumgirlz at http://www.flickr.com Because although shopping remains ever…
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New Babies, Flying And ADHD
Bubba courtesy of crakerk69 at http://www.flickr.com Kurt and I are going on a mini break together to meet his newborn cousin today. He is very excited. I have some concerns. My son has never met a real, live baby before. I am trying to put the concerns I have about his preconceptions about them to…
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One Small Step For Kurt: Managing Your ADHD Rather Than Letting It Manage You
melting of age (Photo credit: girl/afraid) Kurt and I reached our seventeenth anniversary together yesterday. We’ve both changed a lot since that day seventeen years ago when he propelled his way out of my body and into his life, with little warning, no pain relief and lucky to make it out of the hospital lift.…
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