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

Hi, this is Wayne Cowan for Attitude magazine. Today's topic, a 10-step plan for ADHD moms

will give all those mothers out there raising a child or children with ADHD or LD support and a

practical action plan to make the journey a little easier.

Many many moms write into attitude and say I'm exhausted I have too much to do and not enough

help and assistance to handle everything on my plate and no one gets me please help we

are very fortunate to have Kirk Martin of Celebratecom

to give moms a plan to manage their lives so they have more energy and support to get things done.

Kirk is founder of Celebratecom.com. He has helped more than 300,000

parents and teachers tackle the challenges of raising a child with ADHD. He

speaks around the country and around the world on these important issues.

Welcome Kirk.

Hey Wayne, thank you so much and thank you everybody for joining us.

Obviously, I am not an ADHD mom, I am a ADHD dad and so I know that can be really tough so I just

wanted to go through ten different steps as kind of as we kick off the school year too.

I know all the anxiety is building up.

So we'll do that and then we'll get to your questions

and I'll try to make this as specific and practical as possible.

So my first step is always, and if any of you know celebrate calm we're all about controlling ourselves

There's one person life that you can control and that's yourself so the self support

Really taking care of yourself.

Because see, if you don't take care of yourself

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