Help Your Child Understand ADHD

ADHD, unlike what people say today, is a true gift that the beholder has and cares for. You want your child to understand ADHD?

Steps

 * 1)  Sit down with them. Tell your child that she/he has ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Tell them it is a disability that makes them feel: anxious, hyperactive, unable to do simple tasks and etc.  [[Image:Help Your Child Understand ADHD Step 1.jpg|center|550px]]
 * 2)  Go on the Internet with your child and tell them this what their brain looks like. (try Wikipedia)  [[Image:Help Your Child Understand ADHD Step 2.jpg|center|550px]]
 * 3)  Teach them about the upsides of ADHD. This will help your child appreciate themselves as a unique individual, whose brain just happens to work differently from the average. Build upon their strengths, and teach them that being disabled is not the same thing as being broken.  [[Image:Help Your Child Understand ADHD Step 3.jpg|center|550px]]
 * 4) * Older children may benefit from learning about the neurodiversity movement, which originated in autistic culture and spread to other disabilities.
 * 5) * People with ADHD tend to be split on whether it is a disorder to be cured, or a difference to be helped and accommodated.
 * 6)  If they feel bad about having ADHD, treat them out. Take them to the amusement park, the mall, the roller rink or any place that they like that will make them feel much better about themselves.  [[Image:Help Your Child Understand ADHD Step 4.jpg|center|550px]]

Tips

 * Show your child famous people who have ADHD, like: Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, Einstein, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.
 * Tell your child that you love them and that nothing in the whole world can change that.

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