Top 4 Important Things for Parents to Know about their ADHD Children

The following are tips that we feel are important for every parent of an ADHD child to know:


1- Involve Your Child In Karate or Martial Arts: This will help children get out their excess energy and teach them important levels of self respect and discipline. More often than not, a child who's not successful sitting behind a desk learning can easily find his groove in a Dojo where informal learning is what matters.

2- Encourage Your Child to Build Something: Ever since I was a small child, I loved going on missions. Every day is a new adventure in the eyes of an ADHD child. Whether I was building a clubhouse, a fort, a laser tag arena, it didn't really matter. What did matter was that when I was done with my mission, i had something concrete to show for my efforts.

3- Find Something Your Child Excels At: After spending a full day in a non-ideal setting for an ADHD child, the average ADHD child will come home not only depressed, but without the belief that he/she can succeed at anything. ADHD children can work longer and harder at something that holds their interest, and it's so important to find something that fits this bill. Don't give up until you find that thing that makes your child tick.

4- Don't Ever Give Up On Your Child: Sometimes the unspoken word is the harshest. Every child knows when there's silent disapproval coming from their parents. Myself, I came from two extremely studious parents and for many years of my childhood, they just assumed their children would be as studious as they are, and did not know how to respond to my needs.