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ADHD Experts Podcast

248- The Gift of Grit: Helping Children with ADHD Overcome Failure, Fear, & Disappointment

ADHD Experts Podcast

ADDitude

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Brendan Mahan's "Wall of Awful" tool helps parents and children visualize and talk about the effects of repeated failure and disappointment — and overcome the fear, shame, and anxiety that are often associated with ADHD.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

Buddy, hi, I'm Susan Coffman. I'm here for Attitudes Weekly ADHD experts broadcast. Today

0:18.9

we'll be talking with Brendan Mann about grit, resilience, and about how to help our children overcome repeated failures.

0:25.5

I want to welcome all of our listeners, those of you who are listening live right now, or those of

0:31.0

you who may be listening later in the months to come to this

0:34.0

webinar and replay. Let me just point out that in order to receive a certificate of

0:38.0

attendance you must stay through the end of the webinar and complete a brief

0:41.0

quiz. For the replay listeners just be sure you're listening to this webinar,

0:45.0

not on attitude mag.com, but on the original host.

0:48.0

Go to webcast.

0:50.0

You'll see instructions for that on the page on attitude mag.com. Our topic today is a really

0:55.8

important one. Our kids often struggle and fail more than their peers, repeated challenges,

1:01.8

starting and finishing tasks from chores to homework and everything in between

1:06.4

leads to just guilt and shame and anxiety. As parents, we often really struggle to understand this and to talk about it helpfully.

1:16.4

It's a part of attention-death disorder that's very difficult emotionally.

1:20.5

So Brennan Mann will be talking today about a way to talk with your children and help them overcome shame and disappointments and anxiety that are associated with life with ADHD.

1:31.0

Let me introduce Brendan to you today and we're really pleased to have

1:35.2

him here join us today. He is the producer and the host of the ADHD essentials podcast which is an

1:42.0

internationally recognized ADHD executive function.

1:44.8

He is an internationally recognized ADHD and executive function expert and a very engaging, I think

1:51.2

you'll find and sought after speaker.

1:53.6

He helps both individuals, family, schools, and businesses

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