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. Today we'll be talking about a tough topic and that's motivation

specifically academic motivation or how to keep your child's hope

optimism and enthusiasm for learning up and running as the school year progresses as the work gets

tougher and tougher and possibly setbacks in how school's going.

And Dolan will be specifically addressing

why school motivation tapers off and what you can do as a parent

to motivate your student using various rewards consequences.

And how to increase your child's resiliency when things get tougher when they want to give up.

She'll also specifically address some study skills for high school and college

students which I think is very welcome since we often have parents of older kids.

Let me just tell you about Anne. She is a wonderful specialist who we're so honored to have at attitude.

She has over 20 years of teaching, tutoring, consulting experience and has worked with over

ready for this, 8,000 students. Her first book which is called Homework Made Simple, won the Publishers Association Parenting Book of the Year Award in 2011. I really urge you to visit her website Anne-D-O-L-N-D-O-N-D-O-I-N-D-O-I-N-T-C-C-C-C-C-O-N-T-O-N-T-O-I-N-, I N, dot com, just tons of wonderful resources.

So Anne, thank you so much for joining us again today.

We're so grateful for your time.

Well, thank you.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Good.

We're also like to thank the sponsor of today's webinar.

She is Dr. Jackie Paxton and she's the author of a book called 31 Fun Ways to

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