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Supportive parenting

Supportive parenting can change you child's view of ADD from a problem to a different mind in which certain positive and negatives traits are more pronounced. Many of the problems for an ADHD child involve "perceived" clashes with authority including parents, sadly problems with frontal lobes are considered irrelevant. ADD kids are under-stimulated, less able to conform and handle their emotions, forgetful and unthinking about the future, no wonder school can seem dull and constrained. You can make a very real difference.

Books for Parent of ADHD kids

ADHD: Living Without Brakes

Martin Kutscher

An elegant, compact and empathetic book by Martin Kutscher, paediatric neurologist, that manages to capture what is is to be ADD very effectively. Though focussed on childood, this book is one of my favorite books on ADD for Adults as well a children. Kutscher describes the spectrum of ADHD, the symptoms and common difficulties that parents face. He focuses on solutions, based around four rules: keeping it positive, keeping it calm, keeping it organized and keep doing rules one to three!

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Superparenting for ADD: an Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child

Edward Hallowell & Peter Jensen

Dr. Hallowell and Dr. Jensens have written an upbeat, positive and wonderfully constructive guide that offers parents strategies to assist them in the day-to-day challenges of raising their ADD child and help him to reach his fullest potential. Superparenting shows you how to discover and enhance the wonderful and surprising gifts of ADD and to turn what is so often labelled lifelong disability, into lifelong strengths.

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Late, Lost, and Unprepared: a Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning

Joyce Cooper-Kahn & Laurie Dietzel

In this book, two clinical psychologists, aim to help children who "despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute to start a project, lose things, or have a room that looks like a dump!". The advice is relevant, as ADD affects communicatons with the frontal lobes, where Executive Functions are located.

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How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies and Interventions, 2nd Edition

Sandra Rief

The largest and heaviest book I own on ADD! For over a decade, Sandra Rief has produced this major resource for teachers, school professionals, parents and clinicians to help children with ADHD succeed in school, home, and life overall. It has many real-life case studies, interviews, and student intervention plans and contains best teaching practices and countless strategies for enhancing classroom performance.

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ADHD Parenting Handbook: Practical Advice for Parents from Parents, 2nd Edition

Colleen Alexander-Roberts

Although well-written the Colleen Alexander-Robert's book is a little too focused on preventing and managing misbehavior, at the expense of stressing the need to empathetically guide and support the child. This point aside there are many useful recommendations and tips come from parents of ADHD children (based on hundreds of experiences gathered in surveys), as well as from pediatricians, counselors and teachers. The book has advice on working with teachers and in providing a stable and nurturing family atmosphere for all the family.

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No Mind Left Behind: Understanding and Fostering Executive Control—The Eight Essential Brain Skills Every Child Needs to Thrive

Adam Cox

Using case studies and anecdotes, Clinical psychologist Dr. Cox presents a plan for parents to help children master the "eight essential cognitive skills" that are critical for "success in life in work". These are Taking initiative, Screening out distractions, Organizing, Thinking flexibly, Planning, Regulating emotions, Self-monitoring, Using memory effectively. The book addresses neuro-typical, as well as neuro-diverse children and includes practical suggestions for parents and educators.

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Teenagers with ADD and ADHD: a Guide for Parents and Professionals, 2nd Edition

Chris Zeigler Dendy

Dendy's compassionately presents advice and expertise based on the latest research and decades of her experience as a parent, teacher, school psychologist, and mental health counsellor. The book concerns adolescence, a challenging time of life, that is potentially much more difficult for kids with ADD or ADHD. Whether at school or college, in new relationships and socialising, access to alcohol and drugs, this new greater freedoms, with less support can kake ADD life much more challeging.

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