Tag Archives: ADHD teens
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How to Help Teenagers Keep Track of Their Stuff
Posted on September 9, 2021 by CoachRudy in ADHD & School, ADHD Children, Teens & Students, Executive Function.By Cheryl Maguire After a meeting at my twins’ high school, I encountered a mountain of water bottles, sweatshirts, jackets, lunch totes and more in that lost and found pile. Every year, families outfit kids with new back-to-school clothes and gear. How can we help make sure our kids bring it all back from school? “It […]
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ADHD Back-to-School Prep: 10 Talks to Have for a Great School Year
Posted on August 15, 2019 by CoachRudy in ADHD & School, ADHD Children, Teens & Students.By Annie Sofield Reed Set the tone for a successful school year for your student by having conversations with your child, his teachers, doctors, and the other important people in his life. Find out what to discuss here. Read the full article
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Excluded from school: How boxing helps teenagers with ADHD
Posted on July 15, 2019 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Exercise, ADHD Children, Teens & Students.By Gwyneth Rees These teenagers all have ADHD and have been excluded from mainstream school. Here they tell how the sport of boxing is helping them channel their excess energy and improve their life skills. In an amateur boxing gym in Barry, 14-year-old Levi is tugging on his boxing gloves, ready to join his friends […]
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Parenting Teenagers with ADHD
Posted on May 4, 2017 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Parenting, ADHD Children, Teens & Students.Achieving independence is a primary developmental goal of adolescence. Your teenager will experience this urge as strongly as his peers without ADHD, but his or her impulsivity, inattention, and aspects of delayed maturity may mean moving slower toward this goal. Specifically, you may need to: Remove loss of privileges in response to a broken rule. […]
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Peer Mentoring — Strengthening The ADHD Community
Posted on July 26, 2016 by CoachRudy in ADHD Children, Teens & Students.Have you heard this story? This girl is walking down the street when she falls in a hole. The walls are so steep she can’t get out. A doctor passes by and the girl shouts up, ‘Hey Doc. Can you help me out?’ The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and […]
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