If you’ve ever noticed your child coming home from school feeling moody, withdrawn, or simply wiped out, you’re in good company.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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I remember the moment I found out I had ADHD – in my early 40’s – so clearly. When my psychologist revealed the outcome of my assessment and confirmed, indeed, I had ADHD… my life flashed through my mind. The ideas, the stories I couldn’t tell without
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One of the quotes that sparked my continued pursuit of clowning was: "Instead of thinking that each problem you face is a tragedy, you can use the creative side of your brain-- which is likely to benefit from your ADHD traits--- to figure out a solutio
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