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ADHD Experts Podcast

195- How to Support (Not Enable) Children with ADHD at School

ADHD Experts Podcast

ADDitude

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Is homework hijacking your evenings? Do you lie awake at night worrying about your child's success at school? Elaine Taylor-Klaus and Diane Dempster help parents of children with ADHD step back and stop "helping" more than they should.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

Good afternoon and welcome. I'm Wayne Callen and you're listening to

0:16.2

another attitude ADHD experts webinar. Today's topic how to support and not

0:22.4

enable your student is one we could all use a little help with.

0:26.9

I think we've all been there. You're sitting watching your child struggle with a homework math

0:31.4

problem or a reading comprehension question, just itching to jump in and help her solve it.

0:37.0

But you wonder if she would learn more if she did it herself.

0:41.0

What is apparent to do in these situations and many others that crop up during a typical

0:46.5

week? We have with us today Elaine Taylor Klaus and Diane Demster, co-founders of Impact ADHD.com, an essential parenting resource for

0:57.8

raising children with ADHD.

1:00.5

They are also the co-authors of parenting ADHD now easy intervention strategies to

1:06.8

empower kids with ADHD. They've been wrestling with these support versus

1:11.8

enabling questions and they've come up with great

1:14.4

answers and strategies for us.

1:17.2

They can help us navigate this blurry line in the sand.

1:21.2

That all being said, I'm going to turn it over to Elaine and Diane now. It's great to have you here today.

1:27.0

Thank you. It is fabulous to be here.

1:29.0

Yay! Okay, this is a great, this is such a topic.

1:33.0

We hear about this all the time with the parents that we work with,

1:36.0

and just as a sense of wrap up for what Wayne was sharing,

1:41.0

we do parent training and coaching, online and on the phone and we as you can

1:44.4

imagine one of the biggest questions we get from parents is I think I'm helping my kids

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