The brain of a child, teenager or adult with ADHD is a different brain. As someone diagnosed with extreme ADHD, I can say that this is one of the most important insights. Our brains are different – and require different sensitivity, different attention, different management along with unique interpersonal communication. Parental guidance for children with ADHD is critical to the success of empowering the diagnosed child. You must learn to know the limitations of the problem, the challenges, the struggles, the huge blessings it brings – and know how to direct and strengthen your children.

Parental guidance for children with ADHD

ADHD brings with it many blessings. Rare creativity, great sensitivity to the environment, a developed sense of justice, high dedication to the task (after a focus has already been created) and countless other advantages. But alongside all of this we must remember that ADHD also brings a lot of challenges that without an adequate response and treatment through parental guidance – there will be no expression of the benefits and the high possible growth. The main problem is that many parents and educators consider the problem of attention and concentration only a problem of concentration or hyperactivity. Children, teenagers, and adults with ADHD have very high sensitivity and vulnerability, and hence also tend to have a negative and erroneous interpretation of reality – an interpretation that over the years creates a sense of victimhood and weakness. Some researchers claim that this vulnerability and sensitivity to the environment is sometimes created due to the child’s increased intuition, and increased sense perception. Our great sensitivity causes us to absorb too much of the pain from the environment “into us”. This is an emotional challenge that you as parents – the mainstay of your children’s lives – should be aware of. With my guidance, the parents will learn what drives your children, how their brain works and how to help them behave and grow. The lack of focus and concentration also creates a problem of order and organization in various aspects of life. The lack of organization sometimes creates time delays, which create daily stress, stress which creates an emotional burden, an emotional burden that adds to the vulnerability and sensitivity of the child – a sensitivity and vulnerability that in the first place only exists in the problem itself – even before the organizational problems that “add fuel to the fire”. This great vulnerability creates many misinterpretations, sometimes also problems with authority (parents and teachers), or social problems due to low self-esteem. All of these are not justified because most of these children are significantly smarter than average and according to studies they are seen by society as beloved and appreciated.