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To all the teachers reading this, thank you for teaching our children. It is my hope that this will offer insight into the world of a student diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD).Dear Teachers,I wish you knew that my son doesn’t want to misbehave. What seems like misbehavior could be because he is overwhelmed, frustrated or embarrassed.

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Inside Your Teen’s ADHD Mind

Teen boys face their share of obstacles at school: They are often restless in the classroom, and their verbal skills lag behind those of girls. As a result, they can fall behind young women with ADHD (and girls without the disorder) in standardized test scores and rates of college admissions.

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A Dad’s Role in Modeling Social Skills

I cringed when I heard my nine-year-old son saying to a group of his peers at wrestling practice, “Excuse me. Excuse me.” The boys look perplexed.

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Q: What Summer Camps Work Best for Boys with ADHD?

FREE WEBINAR REPLAY WITH RYAN WEXELBLATTListen to “The Social Lives of Boys with ADHD”Q: “What kinds of summer camps work best for boys with ADHD?”A: “I do not like seeing kids with ADHD go to one-week camps. If you have social learning challenges — difficulty making friends and connecting with other kids — it takes you a week just to get used to the camp program and routine, and then you are done.

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“How to Use Declarative Language to Build Skills and Self-Confidence in Kids with ADHD.”

empty praise, give your kids purposeful praise and recognition. When you do this, you’re teaching your child that you appreciate the things that require effort on their part and maybe don’t come naturally — like demonstrating resiliency, practicing patience, thinking about others, and investing effort in non-preferred tasks.To give purposeful recognition, try using declarative language like this: “I noticed you were really patient in the supermarket today.” When you leave it at that, it requires kids to use their own self-directed talk, internal dialog, or brain coach to connect the dots.

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What Parents Misunderstand About Executive Function

is lagging executive function skills.A child with ADHD has a two- to three-year delay in their executive function skills, which means a 7-year-old has the executive function skills of a 4- or 5-year-old. A 13-year-old’s EF age is between 10 and 11, and a 19-year-old’s EF age is about 16.

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Your Emotional Responses to ‘Bad’ Behavior are Counterproductive

emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control often present as behavioral in nature — they appear intentional when they are not.“Behaviors” are words or actions used to elicit attention or an emotional reaction in others, typically parents. Because of the amount of negative attention that most kids with ADHD receive, many learn that exhibiting negative behaviors elicits undivided attention and emotional behavior from their parents.

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It’s Not About Social Cues. It’s About Social Learning.

social learning challenges, meaning they have not learned social information intuitively from a young age to the same extent as their peers.Lagging perspective-taking skills — this is the foundation of these social learning challenges. Kids with ADHD have difficulty thinking about others’ thoughts and understanding how they come across to others.

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Should We Drop the ODD Label?

oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). I want to move ADHD away from being so pathologized in the mental health field, and part of that is changing the language around it.

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Q: My ADHD Teen Reacts Aggressively to Limits!

excessive gaming often led to even greater irritability and self-centered behavior, which is exactly what I experienced with my son as well (and why his Xbox left our house for more than a year). Despite trying multiple therapists, Daniel was not successful in improving his behavior.

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Why “Think Before You Act” is Terrible Advice

brain coach” — is not audible. If you’re not hearing your inner dialog say, “Stop!” you’re going to keep blurting and interrupting.Tell your child, “Listen to what your brain coach is trying to tell you.” By saying this, you are encouraging them to become more aware of their inner dialog — and, ultimately, to heed it.

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Why Dads Never “Win” Power Struggles with Their ADHD Boys

negative attention if they can’t get positive attention. And they are happy negative attention if it’s coming from their dads, in particular.

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10 Hard (But Essential) Truths for Dads of Boys with ADHD

ADHD in boys. Scroll down for the full video — to watch and to share!ADHD medications are the most researched medications in the psychiatry field; they are also the safest.

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The Top 10 Manifestations of ADHD in Boys

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR RYAN WEXELBLATT?Ask your question about ADHD in boys here!“We all have an internal dialog in our heads that we use to talk to ourselves. When someone has ADHD, they are not always hearing that internal dialog or ‘brain coach.’ When your brain works with ADHD, the volume on your brain coach is turned down too low.

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Why Parents Underestimate Boys’ Flexibility and Resiliency

“Can I pack him lunch? He won’t eat what you’ll have.” “He’ll never do that activity. He wouldn’t try it when we wanted to go as a family.” “He won’t be able to handle that.”Without fail, each year before my summer camp starts, I receive a litany of questions or comments from parents about what they perceive their sons cannot or will not do.

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Q: Our Son with ADHD Hyperfocuses on Proving He’s ‘Better’ Than His Little Brother

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR RYAN WEXELBLATT?Ask your question about ADHD in boys here!Q: “My 13-year-old son with ADHD is always in competition with and hyperfocused on his little brother, who does not have ADHD. He has to be the best at everything! He can get very angry and really struggle to let things go with his brother.

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Study Shows Gender Disparities in ADHD Symptoms of Hyperactivity and Poor Response Inhibition

June 26, 2020Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) manifests differently in girls and boys, with two key gender differences: Girls with ADHD are less physically hyperactive than are boys with the condition, and they have fewer motor response inhibition problems. This is the finding of a new meta-analysis published in the Journal of Attention Disorders1, which notably found no significant differences between the genders in terms of working memory or attention.

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Are You Enabling Your Child’s Won’t-Try-Anything-New Inflexibility?

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR RYAN WEXELBLATT?Ask your question about ADHD in boys here!Q: “All of my son’s normal summer activities are canceled and he refuses to try anything new that I suggest. Do I force him to try new things, or do I let him play video games all summer long?”A: “It’s not true that your son doesn’t like anything but video games; the truth is that you’ve been accommodating his inflexibility so that he thinks he doesn’t like anything but video games.

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Q: I Feel Like I’m the Only Guy Taking ADHD Medicine

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Dude, You Need to Reach Out to Your Friends!

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Q: My Husband is Opposed to Medicating Our Son for ADHD

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Does Your Son Hide in the Safe Social Confines of Gaming?

Social anxiety in boys with ADHD is both common and commonly misunderstood.

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