8 Keys To Parenting Children With ADHD

With rates of ADHD reaching unprecedented numbers and treatment options heavily slanted toward medication, Cindy Goldrich’s new book, 8 Keys To Parenting Children With ADHD, is a welcome resource for any parent coping with an often frustrating condition.
With myriad tips for parents — everything from how to talk to a child with ADHD to how to address the challenge of time schedules — Goldrich has a warm and encouraging tone that embodies exactly what she recommends parents use with their ADHD kids: a calm and steady presence.
Goldrich begins by first educating us about ADHD. She reconceptualizes ADHD not as a deficit of attention, but rather as a deficit of executive function. As planning, organizing, and controlling impulses are often difficult, Goldrich explores the multitude of challenges kids with ADHD face, one of which is emotional self-regulation. These children often have difficulty “regulating, modulating and monitoring their level of anger and expression of raw emotion,” and other traits that complicate treatment, including performance inconsistency and sensitivity to the environment.
It is for these reasons, Goldrich suggests, that we should be careful how we frame ADHD to our children. She offers a list of positive sides of each ADHD trait. A major part of that, Goldrich explains, is to “parent the child you have,” as oppose to acting “out of frustration, or lack of understanding.”
Goldrich also emphasizes the need to create calm. Beca...

Source: Psych Central - October 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Claire Nana Tags: Attention Deficit Disorder Book Reviews Children and Teens General Parenting School Issues Self-Help 8 keys to parenting children with adhd Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder book about kids with adhd books about adhd Cindy Gol Source Type: news