564- A Summer to Remember: How to Set Behavioral Boundaries That Unlock Fun
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dave Anderson, Ph.D., shares practical strategies to help parents create a balanced summer routine that promotes fun and reduces stress for children with ADHD, including how to maintain a semi-structured schedule and manage screen time.
Summer Activities and ADHD: Additional Resources
- Free Download: Your Guide to a Smarter Summer
- Read: How to Survive Summer Vacation
- Read: Summer Survival Guide for Parents of Extreme Children
- Read: The Best Summer Is a Strategized Summer
- eBook: Your ADHD Summer Survival Guide
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine. |
| 0:13.5 | Everyone, I'm Carol Fleck, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'm delighted to welcome you to today's ADHD expert's presentation |
| 0:22.9 | titled A Summer to Remember, How to Set Behavioral Boundaries That Unlock Fun. |
| 0:29.3 | Leading today's presentation is Dr. Dave Anderson. |
| 0:33.1 | Dr. Anderson is a senior psychologist at the ADHD and Behavior Disorder Center at the Child Mind Institute. |
| 0:40.3 | He's also the vice president, public engagement, and educator at the center. |
| 0:46.3 | His expertise includes cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral parent training, and classroom behavioral support. For most, if not all of us, |
| 0:57.8 | schools out. The long-awaited summer break is finally here, and that means no more nightly |
| 1:03.5 | homework or studying for tests or waking up early. Summer means freedom. It means sunny pool days |
| 1:10.7 | and sleeping in and reading treasure books. It means freedom. It means sunny pool days and sleeping in and reading treasure books. |
| 1:13.6 | It means freedom from routine. Or does it? Just how much freedom should kids have? Do they still need |
| 1:20.3 | structure and support even during the lazy days of summer? Today's webinar features an extended |
| 1:26.3 | Q&A with Dr. Anderson, more time for your questions |
| 1:30.1 | and more expert advice to help your child enjoy a healthy, fun summer without being glued to |
| 1:35.9 | their screens. So without further ado, I'm so pleased to welcome Dr. Dave Anderson. Thank you so |
| 1:41.9 | much for joining us today and for leading this discussion. |
| 1:46.1 | Thank you, Carol. I'm hoping to just, you know, have that moment of panic where, like, |
| 1:51.6 | your microphone might not be working or something like that, but it looks like everything's going. |
| 1:54.8 | So I'm going to switch to, I have no disclosures. I'm going to switch to my initial slide here. |
| 2:00.0 | So, you know, just for those of you were just joining us or who were joining during Carol's |
| 2:04.6 | introduction, the focus of the, you know, webcast today is about 20 minutes of setting some, |
| 2:12.6 | you know, basic talking points related to summer boundaries and some of the main questions |
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