Posts Tagged ‘ADHD’
How Do You Teach Online Etiquette?
Perhaps your child or teen with ADHD struggles socially, especially in the virtual world. These groundbreaking strategies can help you teach the critical skills they need. by Caroline Maguire, MEd, ACCG, PCC Each virtual environment, just like each real-world environment, has its own social norms and situational expectations. A joke told to a…
Read MoreYour Child’s Online Etiquette
Does your child with ADHD have trouble with socializing in the virtual world? Start a conversation using these five tips. by Caroline Maguire, MEd, ACCG, PCC Your daughter keeps asking irritating questions on Zoom. Your son is shouting, swearing, and belittling the other kids while playing online videogames. You hear your daughter’s friends…
Read MoreWhat Can You Do About Boredom at a Time Like This?
Boredom plagues kids and adults with ADHD during normal times, and we hear it’s rampant during the present coronavirus pandemic. There are strategies you can use to get beyond it. by Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST, and Jeff Copper, PCC, PCAC, MBA Boredom is a universal experience. Although it is uncomfortable and we try…
Read MoreADHD, Isolation, and Boredom
Do your struggles with boredom increase with each week of staying at home during this pandemic? Here’s what you should know. by Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST, and Jeff Copper, PCC, PCAC, MBA Seemingly overnight, COVID-19 thrust us into quarantine and isolation to protect ourselves and others from a strange and contagious virus. With…
Read MoreSuddenly Thriving
Some students with ADHD are surprising themselves and others during this unusual time. by Joyce Cooper-Kahn, PhD I’m hearing a lot about students with ADHD and other challenges who are struggling to adjust to the academic routines of learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their struggles are real and deserve our attention.…
Read MoreEmbrace Learning Over Schooling: A Quarantine Opportunity
by Elaine Taylor-Klaus, PCC, CPCC Has it occurred to anyone else that “homeschool” sounds a bit like an oxymoron? If you’re a “homeschooling” parent, then you already know that “learning at home” is a much better description of what you do every day. But if you’re a parent accustomed to sending your kids off in…
Read MoreMore Time Together Can Be a Mixed Blessing
Guidance for couples during the coronavirus outbreak: Here’s how to make the most of it if your relationship is affected by ADHD. by Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST It’s been said that distance makes the heart grow fonder, so what do we do when the maximum distance is contained within four walls? This time…
Read MoreHome Learning During the Crisis
With schools closed to help slow the coronavirus outbreak, it’s best to take a structured and reasonable approach to schoolwork for now—especially if you’re the parent of a child who has ADHD. by Mark Bertin, MD Most of us parents are scrambling around family routines and schoolwork wherever schools have closed in response to the…
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