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Parenting a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be very challenging for parents. Here are tips to help you cope:
• If dietary adjustments and supplements don't work and the specialist prescribes medicine, make sure your child takes it as prescribed so you will be able to report accurately on improvements and side effects.
• Arrange with your child's teachers that they sit in the front row in class.
• Teach them to make lists of things to do, pack or take along to school.
• Make sure there is a specific routine at home.
• Eat at regular times and teach your child that homework must be done at specific times.
• Give them an alarm clock and put up a year planner and calendar on the wall so that they can learn to plan their day and see sport days and music lessons at a glance.
• Check if and how they did their homework and make sure all tasks have been completed.
• Don't help them. Allow them to do it by themselves, even if it takes a long time.
• If dietary adjustments and supplements don't work and the specialist prescribes medicine, make sure your child takes it as prescribed so you will be able to report accurately on improvements and side effects.
• Arrange with your child's teachers that they sit in the front row in class.
• Teach them to make lists of things to do, pack or take along to school.
• Make sure there is a specific routine at home.
• Eat at regular times and teach your child that homework must be done at specific times.
• Give them an alarm clock and put up a year planner and calendar on the wall so that they can learn to plan their day and see sport days and music lessons at a glance.
• Check if and how they did their homework and make sure all tasks have been completed.
• Don't help them. Allow them to do it by themselves, even if it takes a long time.
