Celebrate Their Spark
Celebrate Their Spark is a positive parenting guide for ADHD families learning to navigate, understand, and elevate the big passions, big emotions, and big ideas of kids with ADD.
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Guest Blogs
Don’t Try to Fix Their Weaknesses. Instead, Try to Celebrate Their Strengths.
During my decades as a school psychologist, I have found five tried-and-true truths about students...
Self Esteem
Parenting Done Right: How Praise Can Help Your Child Thrive
If your child struggles with tough ADHD symptoms, it's likely she already knows the things she can't...
Self Esteem
“I Believe In You!” How to Vanquish a Child’s Low Self-Esteem
Constantly corrected and perpetually punished, many children with ADHD and learning disabilities...
Emotions
Throw Out Everything You Assumed About Parenthood
Your child is “different,” and that means you need to question everything you assumed to be true...
Guest Blogs
Chill Skills: Calming My Emotional Child with ADHD
When my son's frustration leads to outbursts and meltdowns, I pull out these tricks that are helping...
Positive Parenting
Why I Envy Neurotypical Families… Then Quickly Regret It
What would it be like to live one day — just one day — with a child who lost nothing, sat quietly,...
Guest Blogs
“Our Challenge to Change the Language Around ADHD Starts at Home.”
“Whether we’re neurodiverse or neurotypical, truly understanding the positive benefits of diversity...
Guest Blogs
ADHD Positives: Helping Children Embrace Their Differences
My daughter, Natalie, who has attention deficit (ADHD) and learning disabilities, takes pride in her...
“The Power of Family Engagement: How Involved Parents Can Foster a Child’s Self-Advocacy Skills” [Video Replay & Podcast #381]
Access the video replay, listen to the podcast episode (#381), download the slide presentation, and...
Guest Blogs
“Understanding ADHD: Our Long and Winding Trek to the Summit.”
“I think the years it took to get the diagnosis did a degree of damage to the psyches of the families...
Guest Blogs
“It’s Hard Being Different… and Even Harder Being OK with That.”
“’But, why?’ he asked. I had to tell him there was no answer; this was just the way he was made. And...
Guest Blogs
“The School Incident That Shattered My Heart – and Taught Me How to Discipline with Love.”
“I must be calm and pretend I’ve got myself together. I can’t over-react, but what is the right level...
Guest Blogs
“The Soup Routine”
My kid’s routine for eating soup is elaborate and ridiculous, and also comforting and important to...
Teens with ADHD
“Is My ADHD Teen Addicted to Porn?”
Is porn addiction more common in teens with ADHD? Impulsivity and a strong dopamine drive may lead...
Guest Blogs
“The Only Parental Expectation That Matters? My Child’s Joy”
“Considering that we named him Race, I should have anticipated some intensity and drive in the kid....