The Really “Ugly” Side of Stimulant Meds for ADHD

“Implementing Rick’s techniques and adhering to them is exhausting, but it is a healthy exhaustion rather than the detrimental exhaustion I used to experience.”

(B.F. – Woodstock)

Parenting is the most important job you will ever do.

It can also be the most difficult!

The Really “Ugly” Side of Stimulant Meds for ADHD

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Parenting is the most important job you will ever do.

It can also be the most difficult!

If you are headed in the wrong direction as a parent - you are allowed to make a U-turn.

Some hope their children will be like sponges soaking up the truth and wisdom imparted by their parents. However appealing this philosophy might be, it seldom seems to catch on with their children.

"Cutting" is a visible sign to the world that you are hurting.

Relationships matter: change comes through forming trusting relationships. People, not programs change people.

Don't wait for him to turn 10 before you reveal that you are not in fact the hired help whose job it is to clean up after him.

Children fare better when expectations on them are clear and firm.

"To be a man, a boy must see a man." (J.R. Moehringer)

Children mimic well. They catch what they see better than they follow what they hear.

The challenge of adolescence is to balance the right of the parents to feel they are in charge with the need of the adolescent to gain independence.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. (Peggy O'Mara)

The Really “Ugly” Side of Stimulant Meds for ADHD

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