587- The Empathy Playbook for Parents: Helping Kids (and You) Navigate Unfair Treatment and Tough Relationships
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Sharon Saline, Psy.D., helps parents understand how to talk with our kids about ADHD in a supportive, empowering way; establish boundaries and protect their self-esteem; and help them navigate unfair treatment from family members, teachers, and peers.
Explaining ADHD: Resources
- Free Download: Questions to Get Your Child Talking
- Read: How to Explain ADHD in Positive, Empowering Terms
- Read: Your Emotionally Reactive Child Needs Empathy — Not Punishment
- Read: How to Invest In Your Child's "Emotional Bank Account"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine. |
| 0:13.7 | Hello, I'm Annie Rogers, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'm delighted to welcome you to today's ADHD experts' presentation, |
| 0:23.2 | titled The Empathy Playbook for Parents, Helping Kids and You navigate unfair treatment and |
| 0:30.2 | tough relationships. Leading today's presentation is Dr. Sharon Selene. Dr. Celine is a clinical |
| 0:36.7 | psychologist and author of the award-winning |
| 0:39.2 | book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You New, Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in |
| 0:46.3 | School and Life. She specializes in working with children, teens, emerging adults and families |
| 0:52.8 | living with ADHD, anxiety, learning disabilities, |
| 0:57.1 | autism, twice exceptionality, and mental health issues. Her unique perspective as a sibling |
| 1:03.6 | in an ADHD home, combined with decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and |
| 1:09.3 | educator clinician consultant, assists her in guiding |
| 1:13.2 | families and adults toward effective communication and closer connections. |
| 1:19.2 | Dr. Celine is a regular contributor to attitude and psychology today, a featured expert on |
| 1:25.9 | mass appeal at WWLP and a part-time lecturer at the Smith School |
| 1:32.1 | for Social Work. To learn more about her, please visit www.DR Sharon Selene.com. |
| 1:42.8 | Today's discussion is very seasonally appropriate as the holiday season brings families |
| 1:48.9 | together and first semester reports begin to land. We will all inevitably be encountering ADHD |
| 1:56.6 | misunderstanding, bias, and negativity. And there are three sides to this coin. How do you help your |
| 2:03.6 | child build the skill set needed to navigate those relationships and hotspots? How do you manage |
| 2:09.7 | your own emotions when your child is being judged unfairly? And how do you model empathy, |
| 2:14.9 | resilience, and a solution mindset with your child and with the people who don't understand ADHD in the way they should? |
| 2:22.7 | Today, we will learn how to navigate negativity toward your child from ADHD doubters in their lives. |
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