Appreciate Your Child
Thursday, June 5th, 2008When you put your hand up, you can block out the sun. One little hand can stop you from seeing the biggest object in our solar system. This phenomenon is truly amazing.
ADHD, just like your hand, can block out your ability to see and enjoy your child. There is a tendency to find ones self focusing entirely on ADHD related problems and losing sight of the child as a whole. It is easy to fall into this trap when every night you spend four hours helping your child do homework, when every time the phone rings during a school day you begin to feel anxious that your child is again in trouble, when you feel unable to take your child into stores or to other children’s homes to visit, and when you spend considerable time in counseling sessions because of the ADHD.
DON’T LET ADHD STOP YOU FROM ENJOYING AND APPRECIATING YOUR CHILD!
Find fun activities which you can enjoy doing with your child on a regular basis.
Limit the amount of nightly homework time.
Reduce the amount of energy you spend on ADHD related problems.
Appreciate your child’s assets instead of only focusing on the deficits.
Don’t take the problems personally or too seriously.
Create an ADHD friendly home environment to increase success to reduce the stress.
Remember that your children will only be children for a short time period. If you spend all of your time on the problems, you will miss out on all the fun. Don’t let ADHD block out your son or daughter. If you don’t start enjoying them now, they’ll be grown up before you know it.
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