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ADHD in girls is diagnosed less often, identified later, and discussed far less than ADHD in boys. The reasons for that gap are well-documented — girls tend to present with inattentive symptoms rather than hyperactive ones, they’re more likely to mask their difficulties, and the research base for decades was built almost entirely on male […]

Most parents who have a child with ADHD and executive dysfunction are not indifferent. They’re not lazy in their understanding, and they’re not unwilling to learn. They love their child deeply and want to help. The problem is that executive dysfunction asks them to believe something that directly contradicts their own lived experience — and

The “Let Them” theory has become one of the most talked-about ideas over the past year. The premise is interesting. The idea is that, at least when someone is an adult, stop trying to control what other people do — including your kids — and let them make their own choices, face their own consequences,

Most parents think of bullying as something intentional and violent. They imagine a child who targets another child, one who picks on them repeatedly, who knows exactly what they’re doing. That version of bullying is real, but it’s not the only one — and for kids with ADHD, it can sometimes be *accidental* bullying you

Your son can’t sit through ten minutes of homework. He forgets what he walked into a room to get. He loses the thread of a conversation before it’s finished. Take him outside with a baseball, though, and he’s locked in — throwing, catching, throwing again — for an hour or two, without a single reminder

Finding support for a child with ADHD has never been easier in terms of options — and never harder in terms of knowing which options are actually worth pursuing. Online ADHD coaching programs have expanded significantly, and the range of what’s available now stretches from highly structured, professionally led programs to one-size-fits-all video courses with

Last week, we talked a little more about ADHD and adulthood. Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult is its own kind of turning point. The years of struggling to keep up, the self-criticism, the coping strategies that worked until they didn’t — all of it starts to make sense in a new way. But

Most people’s mental image of ADHD is a kid — bouncing off the walls, getting sent to the principal’s office, unable to sit still through a single lesson. That image isn’t wrong, exactly, but it’s incomplete in a way that leaves a lot of adults undiagnosed and confused about why their brains work the way

If your child has ADHD, you may have noticed that defiance — real, persistent, exhausting defiance — seems to come along with it. Refusing requests, arguing about rules, pushing back on almost everything. You might have wondered whether this is just part of ADHD, or something separate entirely. For some children, it’s both. Oppositional defiant

Your child aced their spelling test last week. Today, they can’t remember how to spell half the same words. Yesterday, they cleaned their room without being asked. Today, you’ve asked five times and they haven’t started. Last month, they got ready for school independently every morning. This week, you’re having to walk them through every