Parenting Techniques That Work: Successful Parenting Of Children & Teenagers With Challenging Behaviour, Adhd & Aspergers

Product DescriptionDan Jones has over 10 years experience with children and young people with emotional & behavioural problems, ADHD, ODD and Aspergers & with offering parenting support. He also helped to set up a Therapeutic Children’s Home and has held a number of training courses for professionals in how to work [...]

Multicoloured Mayhem: Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescents and Children With Autism, Asperger Syndrome and Ad/Hd

Product DescriptionJacqui Jackson has seven children. Luke (author of Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome) has Asperger Syndrome, Joe has ADHD, and Ben has autism. Life is anything but straightforward, but the chaos of the Jacksons’ lives is threaded through with humor and common sense. Full of anecdotes and lively thinking, the book explains vividly [...]

Teens and ADHD

Teens with ADHD have a very difficult life. This condition is one that you may not even realize that your child has. In many cases, the symptoms are so few that you do not see that it is there. In fact, they know it is, but you do not. ADHD is [...]

ADHD in Teens

Raising teens in general can be difficult, but raising an adolescent with ADHD can be quite the task. This is because teens with ADHD are less emotionally mature than their peers. That means they are still going through the mental, physical and emotional changes of adolescence but they are not as less ready [...]

3 Mistakes Typically Made by Parents of Children Diagnosed with ADHD

As a mental health therapist, I often witness parents making three mistakes when their children are diagnosed with ADHD or ADD. If you are a parent of a child or adolescent diagnosed with ADHD, read on to find out if you are currently making these mistakes, and what alternative approaches to take.
Mistake # 1: Thinking [...]

Blaming Parents for Adhd?

Parents of kids with ADD and ADHD have a hard job ahead of them. Not only do you have to deal with your child or teen’s symptoms (which can be very challenging), you also have to deal with many ’systems’ out there that are not very understanding or supportive of kids and teens with ADD [...]

Adhd Parenting – Should Parents Discipline Kids With Attention Deficit Disorder Differently?

ADHD parenting presents different challenges than raising kids who do not have this disorder. While you do not want to hold your child responsible for tasks beyond his means, you don’t want to enable him either or make him a victim of his disorder. In this article, you’ll learn five tips for disciplining kids with [...]

ADHD Teenagers- 3 Parenting Tips

ADHD teenagers are faced with all sorts of problems. It is bad enough being a normal teenager but ADHD does present extra challenges. ADHD teenagers have a much higher percentage of traffic accidents, missing school and getting on the wrong side of the law. About a third of them will either be expelled from school [...]

ADHD Teens – Sticking To House Rules

When my brother was a teenager he always used to reply to my mother’s nagging questions about what time he was coming home, by just saying ‘ half past’! Funny answer, but not really helpful for a parent who is trying to increase responsibility and at the same time keep up supervision and some sort [...]

ADHD Parenting – How to Meet the Challenge Without Going Crazy!

Can you imagine your brain working on a weak signal, just like a mobile phone? That is what is happening in a way with ADHD children. This is one of the first things to understand about ADHD parenting.
Let us take another example using the mobile phone analogy. Basically the weak signal is due to an [...]

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