93- How to Teach Your ADHD Child to Become Time-Aware
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
When kids with ADHD struggle with the concept of time, they are unfairly labeled "lazy" or "unmotivated." Marydee Sklar explains how to teach your child to manage time—and drop the labels.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello everyone. This is Stuart Jordan for Attitude magazine and you are listening to Attitudes |
| 0:18.7 | ADHD experts. We're going to be talking about kid-friendly strategies for managing time. |
| 0:26.6 | Our guest today is Mary D. Sklar, and she is a time management educator and founder of executive functioning success. |
| 0:36.0 | Her unique approach to teaching time management, the Sklard process, |
| 0:41.0 | comes from her background as a reading specialist as well as her own |
| 0:44.9 | experience with executive function deficits. You can learn more about Mary D |
| 0:50.4 | at her website W W. Executive Functioning Success.com. |
| 0:57.0 | Mary D is also the author of three |
| 1:00.0 | Seeing My Time books, including her latest book for parents 50 tips to help students |
| 1:06.8 | succeed. The topic today is kid-friendly strategies for managing time with an ADHD mind. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you, Mary D. for joining us. |
| 1:17.0 | We're so pleased to have you here today. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm very happy to be here. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:22.0 | I refer to my work as inside a mind without time and it's |
| 1:27.1 | because of my own mind's problems. I spent the first 40 years of my life describing myself as an underachieving |
| 1:36.1 | procrastinator. I was supposed to be this smart kid, they told me that when I was a kid, |
| 1:41.5 | I had these test scores, but I always figured that they made a mistake because if I was so smart, how come I couldn't get things done? How come I was I chronically late? How come my house was a disaster? How come I was |
| 1:56.7 | screened with the kids in the morning to get them out the door? How come the soccer |
| 2:00.1 | clothes were inside the wash machine instead of in the dryer when the kids needed them. |
| 2:06.4 | Why wasn't their food in the refrigerator went for lunches? |
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