Positive Parenting
100 Daily ADHD Parenting Tips
One ADHD parenting strategy per day for 100 days. Click the images below for more information ...
ADHD Videos
Oppositional Defiant Disorder Strategies: 8 Discipline Rules
Children with oppositional defiant disorder are blatantly disobedient, disrespectful, and...
Rewards & Consequences
10 Behavior Chart Rewards to Motivate Your Child
There is no magic in parenting. No one gleaming reward or perfect behavior chart will convince your...
Free Parenting Downloads
Free Parent Resource: ADHD Discipline Strategies
Does your child melt down, act up, or outright refuse to comply? In this free download, parenting...
Screen Time
My Kids Are on Screens All Day: Is That Okay?
How should our screen rules change during a pandemic? Are there long-term repercussions for loosening...
Positive Parenting
Use Responsive Parenting to Reveal the Roots of Behavioral Challenges
“When we look below the surface of a behavior, we begin to see what our kids really need. That is the...
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
ODD vs. ADHD: The Facts About Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Attention Deficit
Roughly 40 percent of children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) also have oppositional...
Screen Time
Your Child’s Screen Time Is a Privilege, Not an Entitlement
How much screen time for kids with ADHD is too much? During this pandemic, when children are learning...
Parenting
I Had No Safe Place. Can I Build One for My Son?
Like so many talkative, smart, socially awkward girls in the ‘80s and ‘90s, my ADHD was overlooked...
Ask the Experts
Q: Why Is My Child with ADHD So Angry and Violent Now?
Some children with ADHD are prone to emotional outbursts of anger, violence, and abusive language....
Ask the Experts
Q: “Why Is My Child Lying to Me About Everything?”
Children with ADHD don’t lie to hurt our feelings or to spite us or because they lack a moral...
For Teachers
Kids Bouncing Off the Walls? Boredom Busters to Fill Time Gaps
Many ADHD experts swear by the Pomodoro Technique for time management, which organizes the day into...
Behavior & Discipline
“All Behavior is Communication:” The Discipline Approaches That Work for Real ADHD Families
The best discipline approach for a child with ADHD? It doesn’t exist — at least not in any universal,...
For Teachers
Easily Distracted? How to Tune Out Distractions & Focus on School
Children with ADHD experience a lower level of brain arousal, which means they are easily distracted...
ADHD Therapies
Trump Cut $1 Billion in Mental Health Services for Students. ADDitude Readers Responded.
Recently, the Trump administration abruptly terminated $1 billion in funding for the Bipartisan Safer...