Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin and you are listening to Attitude Magazine's ADHD experts audio.

Thank you to all of you for joining us today and welcome back to Kirk Martin of Celebratecom

who's our guest today.

He has helped hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers

tackle the most challenging issues, defiance, disrespect,

bullying, the whole nine yards.

And he'll be talking today about specific strategies for stressed out moms raising kids with

ADHD, and some dads too if you're out there.

As I've said, he's worked with children for over 10 years.

He's developed strategies that help stop meltdowns, tantrums, power struggles, and yelling.

And just check out his site, Celebrate calm.com to see some of the wonderful techniques that he

can bring to all of us. Today he's going to focus on why you should ask for help even if you don't want to how you can simplify your life

effective discipline strategies that get results and a pretty big one how to help your

children have the tools that they need to be self-reliant.

So with that, let me turn it over to Kirk again

with our thanks for being here today.

Hey, I'm excited to be here again.

So thank you very much.

So I know how stressful it is just raising kids alone, but then when you add kids with ADHD and sometimes some of the moms out there probably have may have ADHD themselves so I know

it adds a lot of complicating factors of managing medication and going to

doctors appointments and therapists and you know checking the report cards at school it's kind of a never ending battle so hopefully today we can give you a few very practical tools to help so you know I have a list of 10 things I like simple so I'll just

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