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Book Review: Duct Tape Parenting
Do you yearn for less chaos, more connectedness, and a more fulfilling life with your children? Duct Tape Parenting: A Less Is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids might...
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The only early childhood activity worth my money
“Whose child is this?” Talk about mortifying parenting moments. This one happened at a sing-a-long story hour at our local library branch. All the other children were sitting placidly on their...
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(One reason) why I’m a worse parent when you’re watching
Photo credit: Lynde Pratt Earlier this year, we read Vicki Hoefle’s Duct Tape Parenting as a family. Hoefle’s non-interventionist style, with an emphasis on nurturing both executive function and family...
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The secret to peaceful ADHD parenting: just shut up
The toughest, most persistent challenge in my parenting life might surprise you: it’s shutting my mouth. If you don’t get what I’m saying, you may have found your own biggest challenge, too. As...
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Of course behavior therapy helps kids with ADHD…for now.
When I see ADHD trending on social media, I perk up my ears. Today, it’s the release of new study results supporting behavior therapy as a first-line treatment for children with ADHD. This raises...
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Family life with ADHD: Stash those labels.
Labels — we all use them sometimes, even though most of us know we shouldn’t. Parenting has taught me to use labels intentionally and sparingly. My favorite books caution against labels, both in the...
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Firm and kind: A challenge for ADHD families.
I think I speak for most ADHD-affected households when I say, sometimes we don’t bring out the best in each other. In his book Healing ADD From the Inside Out, Dr. Daniel Amen makes a list of games...
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Being a good parent despite my ADHD: how I practice sane discipline
A lot of online resources provide tips on parenting kids with ADHD. Too few discuss the painful inverse: It’s really hard to be an effective parent when you have ADHD. I want to be consistent and...
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Internet of ADHD weekly roundup: May 29, 2020
I Worked From Home For A Year Before Coronavirus—But Here Are 6 Things I Needed to Switch Up | apartment therapy There’s wisdom in here for any time our lives feel disrupted. As someone who also...
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