What story do we keep telling? ADHD isn’t real, We hear this over and over almost as if it’s a story, Your told this story from a young age. You begin to see this story getting engraved in your mind, You see yourself telling yourself your making it all
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Why were you always missed? It’s as if you are the faint whisper in a noisy room, Forgotten, Overlooked. You sit in class unable to focus, Never knowing what's going on, Feeling as if there are a million different voices speaking to you all at once. Yo
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If you’ve ever noticed your child coming home from school feeling moody, withdrawn, or simply wiped out, you’re in good company. For kids with ADHD, after-school restraint collapse is a frequent experience. But what does it really mean? What is Restrai
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Parenting can often feel like a juggling act, especially when it comes to finding the right balance between fun, nurturing moments and necessary discipline. For many of us, it feels like there’s more of the “hard parenting”—the tasks like brushing teet
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I have worked in American higher education for twenty years and counting. For the first eleven years, I was an Academic Success Coach for “nontraditional” students (those who don’t follow the “traditional” path of completing a four-year college degree
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As a mom raising three boys with ADHD, you’d think I’d have seen the signs. My boys were all diagnosed young, with their ADHD showing up in the more “obvious” ways—hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and the constant need to move. I thought I had a pretty cl
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