10 Important Questions To Ask Your Father Before He is Gone

December 27, 2022U.S. guidelines for diagnosing and treating adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are long overdue.Adult patients with ADHD deserve high-quality care, and providers likewise deserve authoritative resources that outline effective, evidence-based practices for adult ADHD.

Willpower alone cannot increase productivity in the ADHD brain. Also not helpful: the standard tips, tricks, and strategies designed for a neurotypical person. If you’re searching for effective, ADHD-friendly ways to get things done, look no further than the ADDitude community — and other readers like you who have found winning strategies by trial and error.Recently, we asked ADDitude readers to share their experience with buzz-worthy productivity tools, including brown noise, binaural beats, and bionic reading.

December 30, 2022Adults with severe ADHD symptoms were more likely to be expelled and receive reprimands from teachers as school children compared to adults with less severe or no ADHD symptoms, according to a partial study published this month in the Journal of Attention Disorders.1Researchers compared the school experiences and intensity of ADHD symptoms in 1,518 adults from the Czech Republic aged 18 to 65. Participants answered questions from the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) and were grouped according to symptom manifestation, or “ADHD type”: low, medium, and high.Findings revealed that those with higher ADHD symptoms were “significantly more likely to be expelled, receive notes for bad behavior, disturbing or forgetting, as well as receive reprimands from teachers” as children.“The results suggest that children with higher ADHD symptomatology are more likely to be forgetful, restless, and misbehave — which then gets written down by their teachers,” researchers said.

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“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin FranklinNo one knows this better than someone with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who may lose, mismanage, underestimate, squander, and search for time daily. After all, warped time perception is a core facet of ADHD.That translates into poor time management in the moment, and problems organizing toward the future.

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Fathers play an integral role in their daughters’ lives, whether they realize it or not. Even when you don’t realize it, and even in those moments in passing, a father’s words majorly impact his daughter.Words have power. That is why it is so important for a father to speak with intention, even in the moments he believes she isn’t listening.

Russell Edwards is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his skills and confidence. He started his coaching journey in 2020 and till now he acquired a lot of tools and coaching skills. However, as he says, learning is a life […]

Renier Jooste is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his wisdom and experience. He is a Sensitive, meaning that he is open to perceive a lot more information from the world around him. He can see patterns where others can’t. […]

Whether we wish to admit it or not, our words have power, especially the words we choose to use with our children. While the following might not seem like a big deal to you-please bear in mind that children are still growing, developing, and learning.While most parents have the best intentions, none of us are perfect. Many of the things we say to our kids were learned through our own experiences with our parents.

All moms long for their babies to need them, but when a child is always clinging to their mother- it can be hard to get anything done. When this happens, a mother’s first instinct is to wonder what is going on.While some kids are naturally more clingy than others, when a child suddenly becomes clingier than usual, there is typically a reason. Some of these reasons are pretty simple, while others can be pretty complex.

As parents, we have to discipline our children to help them to grow into the best possible people. However, some discipline strategies do stand above the rest, while others will only lead your child to walk on eggshells around you.Did you know that your discipline strategies could be making your child anxious? While some forms of discipline can be extremely effective, others can be counterproductive, because if your child is anxious as a result of your discipline, it isn’t likely that it will be effective. Here are 4 ineffective discipline strategies that make your child anxious.When your discipline strategy is far over the top for the action your child has taken, it is going to leave them on edge.

As kids begin to learn the ropes, they also learn how far they can push limits. While it may be hard to face, for some, a major part of this can manifest as manipulation.No parent wants to admit their child is manipulating them, but the sooner you nip this behavior in the bud, the sooner you put a stop to it. The last thing you want to do is give in to your child’s manipulation.

The end of the year is always that special time where people start reflecting on the past 350-ish days and planning for the next 365. It’s a time where many of us love to write out goals for the upcoming New Year — some might call them “resolutions.”