If you’ve followed my blogs over the past couple of years, you
know I try to insert as much humor as I can into the concept of living with
ADHD.
It’s a fact that persons with ADHD can be funny and the
situations that affect the family can be side-splitting hilarious. For instance
I wrote about my daughter with ADHD who liked to pretend she was a mannequin, and how her impulsive actions or
comments cause us to literally bend over with laughter.
I’ve also written numerous examples
of how Hubby with ADHD thought and behaved totally outside the box in the
earlier days of our marriage.
My soul still bears the marks and
bruises of some of those actions.
But today I share another truth
about ADHD in either yourself or your family member: the behaviors and symptoms
associated with attention deficit often bring dilemmas and aches. One of
my acquaintances calls them pain points.
Because of pain points and the daily struggles my readers
face, I created a convenient mini course A
Mother’s Survival Guide to ADHD.
In it I cover such topics as:
ADHD’s long, credible history
ADHD families suffer in silence
Simplifying the stress
Building positive behaviors
And
several other practical topics
I endeavor
to touch on some of the pain points families with ADHD encounter on a daily
basis, and I offer solutions or remedies to help families find ways to
alleviate the pain.
I hope to
interact with you at one of your pain points and gift you with support and
encouragement.
A few of
the solutions I recommend include:
Learn
the unique ways your family member brings color and texture to a linear world.
You
can bring order to chaos and bring space to your life.
Parents
and children can learn to be partners for successful behavior management.
You will hear me say such things as:
The first medical writings on symptoms
similar to what we now know as ADHD began to appear in the late 1790’s in the
works of Sir Alexander Crichton, a Scottish physician, when he described
persons who are distracted from attending fully to a task or object. Sir Crichton said “When born with (this set of behaviors) , it
becomes evident at a very early period of life, and has a very bad effect,
inasmuch as it renders him incapable of attending with constancy to any one
object of education. But it seldom is in so great a degree as totally to impede
all instruction”.
Wise parents learn how to
pick their battles and remain calm in escalating situations. Experienced
parents learn to identify behavior triggers. Successful parents know that a
sense of humor helps to defuse potentially explosive situations. It also helps parents
maintain a positive perspective on the situation. Remember, sarcasm is not a
form of communication.
These
only touch the tip of the wealth of information that you will discover in the
mini course, information I learned from both scholarly studies and from nearly
one-half century of personal experience.
You can find it on our web page at www.coachadhd.com/joomla3/courses.html, and I
invite you to take time now to obtain the course and to recommend it to friends
with similar struggles.
If you have other questions, phone us at 316-655-9807
316-655-9807 or 316-6557079.
316-655-9807 or 316-6557079.
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