A lot of the times, toddlers, they may display some of these behaviors where they're more hyperactive,

they're more inattentive, but it's so different all to know because I'm sure as you've seen like in your work,

that like there is such variability where kids, they have so much energy in that moment.

They seem like they're not paying attention a lot and so it really, really easy for them to look like they might have ADHD,

but it's just so difficult to know at that time.

Hello, welcome back to the feeds.com podcast.

This week I am welcoming Dr. Kerry Jackson, who is a licensed child psychologist,

and we are talking about, does my toddler have ADHD? How young is too young?

We are talking about ADHD because I get so many questions about if toddlers can be too young to have this.

Welcome Dr. Kerry to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here and I know this is a really hot topic that I get a lot of questions about too.

I'm super excited to talk about it today.

I was talking with you about topics to discuss and obviously you are a wealth of information and I'm going to have you tell our audience about what you do.

This topic is just so important because I, even as a pediatrician, get so many parents coming into my office

and their two-year-old or three-year-old is exhibiting certain behaviors or actions and the parent is like,

hey, is this developmentally appropriate or is this something that could be a sign of ADHD?

Is it ADHD? Are they going to have ADHD?

So I'm just really excited about this conversation because I think, again, I think so many parents have these questions

and sometimes don't know who to ask or where to turn to for information.

But before we continue, tell me more about yourself and what you do in your career.

Yeah, of course. So right now, my main job I guess I would say is that I am a licensed child psychologist and I'm located in the

San Diego, California area. So here I have my own private practice where I see kids primarily with ADHD actually and I see them for therapy as well as for evaluations.

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