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

Hello, this is Wayne Callan for Attitude magazine. Today's topic

managing emotionally intense ADHD kids and parents will be extremely

valuable for many of us. We've all been there

those episodes of upset and anger when our children routines don't heat our words or

when they act up seemingly out of nowhere.

We can all use help on this front.

We are very fortunate today to have Elaine Taylor Klaus and Diane Dempster of Impact ADHD, a major resource for parents of children with

attention deficit. Professional coaches and educators, Elaine and

Diane help parents reduce the stress of raising complex children.

They are experts at giving moms and dads the tools to manage themselves and their kids.

So welcome Elaine and Diane.

Thank you and welcome everyone.

This is Wayne, first of all, thanks for having us.

Sure.

And we want to welcome everyone to calm the chaos, strategies for managing emotionally intense kids and parents.

And today we're going to talk about emotional intensity in ADHD, which is what we like to call it and strategies for managing it.

Generally when we teach parents how to help their kids learn to manage their ADHD and that's really our

role as parents to teach our kids to learn to manage themselves. their So we're going to focus in on the adults role and their relationship to emotionality and impulsivity.

And again, this is what we sort of do in all of our programs and in all of the information materials we have on our website.

And it's great to do this because you can apply this

if your parent managing kids with ADHD,

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