Children with ADD/ADHD can have struggles in school and with life in general due to their deficit with executive functioning skills. Executive functioning skills can include: the ability to think and plan ahead, organize, control impulses and start and complete tasks. Parents need to learn to model the skills their child lack by providing extra guidance while allowing the child to gradually acquire executive skills of their own.
This will not happen overnight. Kids with ADD/ADHD want to sit quietly, they want to have clean rooms and desks, they want to do everything their parent or teacher asks them to do, but they just don't know how to make these things happen. They often don't know how to start. Are you as stressed as your child when you hear the work "Homework"?
This will not happen overnight. Kids with ADD/ADHD want to sit quietly, they want to have clean rooms and desks, they want to do everything their parent or teacher asks them to do, but they just don't know how to make these things happen. They often don't know how to start. Are you as stressed as your child when you hear the work "Homework"?
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