After two years apart, the ADHD community assembles in Dallas, Texas, for the Annual International Conference on ADHD this weekend, to celebrate our strengths and many connections. This is the world’s largest gathering of ADHD professionals and individuals and families affected by ADHD. For the first time it is a hybrid conference, with attendees both…

An educator, concerned for the well-being of his students, wrote to a professional journal, seeking advice. “I can’t fight the forces that lead kids to be hard on themselves or to believe they need to build the perfect resume or go to a highly ranked college, but I’d like to do something to ease their…

Another note has come home from school: your child forgot to turn in his homework. Again. He struggles with organizing information into an assigned report. He works five times as hard for a passing grade as his schoolmates do. He talks too much, interrupting his peers, and is left on his own during recess. He…

How to Help Your Child with ADHD Create Healthy Eating Habits, featuring Mark Bertin, MD ADHD 365 Several aspects of ADHD, such as distractibility, impulsiveness, issues with organization, under planning, and emotional regulation can affect eating habits. How can parents help children with ADHD create and maintain healthy eating habits that will stay with them…

You’re settling into bed at the end of the day and your eyes snap open—and you realize you didn’t do half the things you wanted to do that day. Did you finish anything you wanted to get done? Whether the activities are “have-tos,” such as cleaning the bathroom or getting your tax information together, or…

It seems that some teens and young adults bounce back from challenges more easily, or if they need more time, that they still return to a pretty good spot in life rather than becoming defeated. Resiliency—the ability to bounce back, or to weather difficult times and remain positive—is a concept many people, and some researchers,…

      CHADD Webinars: ADHD and Toxic Relationships Wednesday, October 26 | 5:30 EDT Featuring Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD Far too often, it feels like adults with ADHD are drawn into toxic relationships. These relationships can be found at work, at home, in friendships, and between romantic partners. You can learn how to protect…

There is a saying: If you know one person with ADHD, then you know one person with ADHD. It means that everyone’s experience with ADHD, its symptoms, and its effect on someone’s life is different. It’s also true that there are many common and shared experiences among the those who have ADHD that help to…

“I had to pull myself together and get through it.” Liliana Gutierrez and her family survived Hurricane Ian, even as the massive storm moved their house off its foundation and the walls began to crumble. With her mother, Maribel Gutierrez, Liliana and younger family members fled their house only to be met by a wall…

CHADD Webinar Frenzied, Frazzled and Overwhelmed: The Interaction of Hormones and ADHD in Women in Midlife Wednesday, Sept. 28 | 2 PM EDT | Carol Robbins, PhD Many women struggle at midlife with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD. These struggles can be complicated by hormonal changes and lifestyle changes during these years. Women typically report feeling…

When your son or daughter struggles with verbal, emotional, or physical impulsivity, the teenage years can be especially challenging. Impulsive behavior can lead to traffic violations, bodily harm, or social fallout when your teen seems unable think before they do or say something. You might become frustrated if your child acts without thinking—even when they…