Parenting is hard. In general, parenting is hard. So how do you do it for ADHD kids if you do not have ADHD, or if you do and maybe you are a late diagnosis.

I'm not here to tell you how to parent or that you are doing something right or wrong. I am here to share my experiences, insight, struggles, and resources in hopes that it will help ease the hardness of parenting. We've all figured out that there is no one-size-fits-all for anything parenting. Today, I'm sharing my personal experiences of ADHD parenting, figuring it out for myself and my kids. Along with it, below are some resources that I mentioned. Otherwise, please reach out to me if you have questions, comments or suggestions on what you hear or would like to hear.

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Holderness Family Book: Thriving on ADHD

SOOOOOO many golden nuggets here today. Talking about anxiety and executive function.

Encompass has 5 steps:

-Task awareness

-Prioritization

-Awareness of un-manageable tasks

-Organization of workspace and time

-Reflecting and correcting without judgement

We dug into two of those and ways to help and support. Resources and strategies, camps. Not to mention she explains rigid and binary thinking.

No doubt you will have some lightbulb moments.

To connect with Jessica:

jessica@encompassfct.com

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LinkedIn: Jessica Shore

Teaching is hard enough as is, so how to you successfully support neuro-diverse students to help them be successful?

Enter Candice. She has neurodiverse kids herself along with a solid background in teaching them. Listen in for her advice, tips and tricks on how to get to know them, support them, and understand them.

I loved that she also got into how to help the class understand them because they have to learn to function and get a long with people.

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Listening to her gut and intuition literally saved Rosanne's life. From a tick bite. You read that right.

Rosanne has lived through many health situations. Out of the many things she has learned:

-Ask questions

-Advocate for yourself- and go with your gut

Ways to connect with Rosanne:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmessiam/

https://www.sustainablesolutionscoach.com/

The term ADHD can be such a heavy trigger word and quite overwhelming. Where do you start? What does it take? Who the heck do i talk to?

Tune in as I talk about the step by step process of what will likely happen and when to start the conversation (hint,hing: never too soon)

What to look for, what to expect, and how to move forward.

https://go.impactparents.com/t?orid=148432&opid=5

Schedule a call with me:

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Here's your list of potential symptoms for young girls and boys:

Girls:

-Internalized symptoms

-Use coping strategies to help hide

-Reads ahead in assigned book, but fails to do homework

-Spends time on homework, forgets to turn in

-Sits quietly in class and doodles instead of listening and paying attention

-Constantly lost in own thoughts

-Trouble making/keeping friends

-Often called a chatterbox

-Obsession on topics

-Potential overstimulation

Boys:

-Can't sit still

-Disrupt learning

-Spend hours on video games but get frustrated after a few min of homework

-Easily distracted

-Appears to not be listening

-Obsession on topics

-Forgets small things

-Can't follow more than 2 instructions at a time

-potential overstimulation

Coping:

-extra time to get chores/homework done just right

-avoid things they find challenging

-Create conflict to deflect attention from problems

To schedule a call with me:

https://calendar.app.google/QVL7KyqGGuBC4uw66

ADHD information:

https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/adhd-in-girls#girls-vs-boys

Impact Parents resources:

https://go.impactparents.com/t?orid=148432&opid=5

Background on me, what it looked like and how I figured it out.

Its a process and not a fast one. Be self aware about yourself and your kids. Do it for yourself and your kids.

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