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

I'm Susan Goughlin here for Attitude magazine and you're listening to Attitudes

ADHD experts. If you're a parent to an ADHD child you're living with more ups and

towns at a roller coaster. One day you're

basking your child's creativity and the next you're worried about is

social isolation, is motivation problems, discipline. What does it take to be a

good parent to an ADHD child?

And it's a question that we all ask ourselves.

Our guest today is Dr. William Dodson.

He's a psychiatrist specializing in ADHD,

who has been in practice for over 20 years in Denver, Colorado.

Some of you may have listened to his previous sessions with us which have always been

illuminating.

He will take your questions today on parenting and with that let me turn it

over to Dr. Dodson with our thanks as always thank you so much for being here

with us today. Thank you Sicci. When we were rousing around trying to find a good title for this presentation, one of the ones

we considered, and I still think it's probably the best, would be what can go right.

I see only adults with ADHD.

Well, I'm looking at the end product of sometimes years of therapy and medication,

starting in childhood, and now with the adults that I see.

So I have a very unique perspective looking back and finding out not so much what went wrong, but what went right.

Because when we think about how to manage ADHDs,

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