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Young ADHD children at Risk for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

October 18, 2012   admin

Young ADHD children at Risk for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
Young children with ADHD are probably more likely to engage in nonsuicidal self-injury than children who are not ADHD.
Children with ADHD as a group are of course much more impulsive than children without ADHD. As most parents and teachers know, it’s that increased impulsivity that forms one of the core symptoms of ADHD and makes an accurate diagnosis of ADHD more likely.
Increased impulsive behavior in ADHD is felt to be caused by inefficient executive brain processing of sensory input and the subsequent lack of an ADHD child’s or adult’s ability to delay gratification. It’s often this tendency to act before thinking through the consequences of doing something that gets the ADHD child, teen or adult in trouble.
As I’ve previously pointed out, excessive and off-the-spur of the moment tattoos and body piercings tend to be good examples of impulsive ADHD nonsuicidal self-injury behavior (NSSI). However, quite a few parents would argue even one body piercing or tattoo was excessive and impulsive, but we won’t debate that opinion here.
ADHD experts have realized over the past few years that adolescents with ADHD suffered higher rates of self-injury… Read the rest not related to suicidal

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New Learning Resource for ADHD Children Now Available

August 02, 2012   admin

New Learning Resource for ADHD Children Now Available
Amazing Grades, Pat Wyman’s Compilation of learning experts is now available at Amazon.com
Here’s a description….
Amazing Grades is a worldwide goodwill book with 101 best-selling authors and experts, from 13 countries around the world, sharing their strategies for getting better grades faster.
It is the result of a year’s collaboration by those 101 authors and is the first book ever to include 3 learning style strategies so that help students master the information in their own style and improve their grades faster. There are video strategies, (scan tags which include related videos); auditory strategies (all authors read their chapters aloud) and kinesthetic strategies so that students can interact with the material in the book.
In addition, the book contains life skills strategies… Read the rest in all areas that affect student achievement as well as learning strategies that outline specifics on:
How to decrease study time by at least half by using picture maps
How to get motivated in 5 minutes or less
How to get rid of learning roadblocks using these 5 specifics
How to read faster than you ever thought possible
How to handle any special learning differences such ADHD
How

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Successful Treatment of ADHD Kids may require Treating Parents

July 19, 2012   admin

Successful Treatment of ADHD Kids may require Treating Parents
Children with ADHD may not respond to therapy unless their ADHD parents are treated at the same time.
It’s true…no matter how many drugs a child with ADHD takes, no matter how many counseling sessions he or she attends, no matter how many promises or threats a parent makes; sometimes the only way ADHD kids will respond to treatment is to treat their parent for ADHD.
ADHD experts estimate 50% to 70% of all ADHD teenagers will still have one or more elements of their ADHD persisting into adulthood. Likewise, we’ve found 70% of all children and teenagers with ADHD will have one or both parents who are ADHD or had the core symptoms of ADHD during childhood.
It is indeed very difficult to effectively diagnose and treat ADHD in a child when his or her mother or father have undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or untreated ADHD. Most adults who fall into one of these three groups deny the existence of their ADHD, think they have “out-grown” their ADHD, or have serious subconscious doubts about whether ADHD is real or not.
Denial of ADHD symptoms and doubts about whether ADHD is real or … Read the rest

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How to Build Self Esteem in ADHD Kids One

March 15, 2012   admin

This article might have been better titled; “Building self-esteem in kids, whether ADHD or not.”  The reason is that it’s terribly important for parents and teachers to learn ways to build self-esteem and confidence in all children and teens, not just those kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Most children with ADHD suffer low confidence levels, poor self-image and poor self-esteem as a result of their impulsive behavior and terrible communication and social skills. Therefore, building self-esteem and confidence in ADHD teens and children is often viewed as next to impossible and many teachers and parents become frustrated and give up too easily.
I know each and every one of you wants what’s best for their children-both parents and teachers alike.Also, I know how frustrating it can be to deal with an ADHD child’s ups and downs as I have helped raise many of them, including one of my own. So, please let me help by sharing a few of the important things I’ve discovered about dealing with ADHD kids (and kids who are not ADHD) who are suffering low self-esteem:

85% of children with ADHD behavior problems have poor self-image and low self-esteem… Read the rest.
25% of children

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Parenting for Success in ADHD Children

February 16, 2012   admin

 
As we discussed in my previous article; Parenting Style Can Cause ADHD Behavior in Children; the manner in which a parent applies parenting skills, whether good or bad, can cause behavior problems that mimic ADHD in their children, thus leading to the misdiagnosis of ADHD.
In this article we’ll discuss some of those parenting mistakes previously mentioned and in more detail discover ways to help your children, whether ADHD or not, grow emotionally, academically and socially-all without you having a nervous breakdown.
Some of the most common parenting style mistakes we see in our medical practice include:
•  Parents expecting their child to be perfect or almost perfect-in school, in social settings, in getting along with friends and siblings, even when doing so creates undue stress and anxiety for the child and sometimes for everyone else involved.
Several years ago I interviewed a ten-year old child with ADHD… Read the rest whose mom had him on “restriction” as a disciplinary measure for a total of 3 out of 5 months of the school year for failing to do a book report and thus getting his first “f” in English. Unfortunately, she used “restriction” to mean he was not supposed to

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Principles of Good Discipline in Children and Teens with ADHD

January 26, 2012   admin

Parents and teachers can use good discipline techniques to improve ADHD behavior.
In a previous article we discussed how parents might employ good discipline techniques to improve misbehavior in their ADHD children and ADHD teens. Once again, let me reiterate discipline and punishment are not the same things. They are actually 180 degrees apart in intent and in improving behavior.
The Latin word discipline literally means to teach, while punishment in both ADHD kids and those who are not ADHD is often defined as giving pain or attaching negative consequences to a particular event or behavior. Unfortunately, more than 75% of parents, caregivers and teachers consider the two words and actions to be the same.
It’s been often said that children learn best when nurtured in a positive manner… Read the rest, not when punished or provided with negative reinforcement! If you pause to think about what things were like when you were growing up, I’m sure you can clearly remember learning better and being able to recall what you learned when you were relaxed, not afraid, praised, encouraged and given that proverbial pat on the back for what you had done.
With your childhood experiences firmly in mind, let’s take

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ADHD Behavior-Changing Unwanted Behaviors in the New Year

December 26, 2011   admin

Parents of ADHD children can empower their child to change unwanted impulsive behaviors in the New Year by using simple training tips!
Here we are at the end of one year and about to start a new one. Most of us are happy to see the year end, as our optimism says we’ll definitely see new and better things as the New Year progresses.
However, as I’ve discovered in the past, there’s always a group of parents who are indeed happy the old year is at a close, but are dreading having to deal with their ADHD child’s behavior in another school session.
Maybe their ADHD teen has a bad attitude and is making failing grades. Maybe their ADHD daughter answers every question with “duh” or “whatever”, frustrating both parents and teachers. Maybe they can’t take their 9 year-old to the mall or to church or just about anywhere without being embarrassed by his behavior or constant butting-in adult conversations.
Whatever is going on…ADHD behavior can cause so much personal, family, and classroom stress that no one wants to be around the child or teen with ADHD… Read the rest. In fact, research has shown that teachers, siblings, other family members when

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