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By Keath Low, About.com Guide to ADD / ADHD

Nurturing Your Child's Strengths

Sunday March 2, 2008

Build on your child’s strengths, focus on strengths, nurture strengths -- we hear this advice so often, but what does it really mean?

Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D., psychologist and author of several books including The Gift of ADHD Activity Book: 101 Ways to Turn Your Child’s Problems into Strengths, explains that parents need to ask themselves, “What is right with my child?”

Click on Positive Parenting Strategies to read more.

What is right with your child? What makes him unique? What are her strengths? What do you love most about your child?

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