“Parenting a child with ADHD is a humbling experience. It’s mostly been about putting aside what I think and working with my son’s brain – not against it. That alone takes a monumental amount of patience, trial and error, and an open mind.”
“My brain is an overstuffed garbage can,” my son once told me. “And the lid won’t stay on, so stuff is falling out all over the floor.”I thought I understood ADHD when he was diagnosed. By that point, I was a published academic researcher with a Ph.D. in pharmacology who studied ADHD medications. It turns out my background did not prepare me for the challenges of parenting a child with ADHD.
Contrary to prevailing perceptions about ADHD in boys, my son is not hyperactive or impulsive. He was diagnosed withParenting with ADHD: The Learning CurveSelf-Test: Does My Child Have ADHD? Symptom Test for KidsI cannot count all the times I’ve said, “Why can’t you just…” to my son. “Why can’t you just clean your room/start your homework/study for your test/put away your bike?” It never occurred to me he couldn’t “just” get things done the way I could, even when he’d plainly state it.
When I asked my son to clean up his room one time, he said to me, “Mom, why are we bothering? It’s going to stay organized for all of 10 minutes. You know me; I’m not organized.”, when his grades began to suffer due to all the assignments he had to keep track of.
And I realized that I’d have to be more involved in practically all aspects of my child’s life than most parents probably are if I wanted him to thrive. It continues to this day , complete with lots of parent-teacher meetings and a multitude of emails to his instructors about his ADHD. Although most of my emails are received favorably, I know some teachers think my son is lazy and just doesn’t care. But that’s the unfortunate reality we have to face every day.
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