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Are You Listening?

Transitioning from a focus-sucking activity to start another (like doing a chore or coming to dinner) is tremendously difficult for a child with ADHD.  Allowing your child adequate time to make that transition will often result in a better connection with your child.  It will also result in fewer incidences of emotional responses like crying, tantrums, or eye-rolling.

Hello Again, Watch

"Sounds like looking at your watch is actually making you late," my therapist said.  I was dumbstruck.  Was she actually suggesting that the device responsible for keeping me on time was really at the root of making me late? I would like to say I received this question in the spirit of the curiosity with which it was intended.  I did not.  Instead, I questioned my therapist's qualifications and state of mind.