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Does Summer Vacation Equal Medication Vacation?

For many kids with ADD, medicine can make a big difference in school performance. A child’s ability to focus, complete work, and control impulsiveness is greatly improved. Once school is out for the summer, is it necessary to continue on meds?

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Help Make Cleanup Time Easier for Your Child

Monday June 30, 2008

Getting our children to clean up after themselves and keep track of their things -- these are two tedious tasks of parenthood. For a parent with an ADHD child, this job becomes even more important and certainly more difficult. Luckily, there are some basic things you can do to help your child develop good habits when it is time to clean up.

Click on Organizing Cleanup to read more.

Please feel free to share any other tips that have worked in your home.

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Keep Those Commitments...and Improve Relationships

Sunday June 29, 2008

Do you ever make commitments, yet fail to follow through? Perhaps you promised to do something that you really didn’t want to do -- maybe a tedious task, something you need to do but honestly just don’t want to do. It may be that in the midst of the conversation with someone it felt right, but later as time passed the task just didn’t seem so important so you lost track of it. Perhaps you even find yourself saying "yes" to too many things until your pile of things-to-do becomes impossible.

Adults with ADD/ADHD often find themselves caught in this negative pattern. Following through with or even remembering these commitments can sometimes be a struggle.

Click on Keeping Commitments to read more.

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