Waking up for school in the morning has to be the hardest part of my day. They say waking up is hard to do. Have any of you noticed that it's that much harder to wake up for school when you're a kid with ADHD? I'm not a morning guy. Not sure why but getting up in the morning is SO hard. Mostly I hate it when my...
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Some of you have asked me on my Facebook page whether I like school. It's really hard to like school when you have ADHD. I'm no different - I used to really hate it. Because of my ADHD, I've had years of being bullied by other kids. (I have some brutal stories to tell, and I'll tell them on this blog and in the forum.) It...
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Help me get my phone back guys! I just got in trouble again because I couldn't seem to "find" my bedroom... again. My room is messy pretty much all the time. I don't like it messy because then I can never find anything. My mom hates it when she can't even walk to the closet to put clothes away. (I appreciate that she does for...
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Life can be hard when you have ADHD, and sometimes it's hard to find things to be grateful for. It's easy not to notice when good things happen. I've had a lot of bad years. Thankfully 2014 was not one of them. This year, I was encouraged to chase what some might call a "pipe dream." But hey, a dream's a dream... so I went...
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With School starting up next week, I thought I'd do a post about ADHD and School. How do you deal with the bad days that life is bound to throw at you? I had the worst TOC on the planet (substitute teacher) last term instead of my regular teacher. I've had this woman before. Things just don't go well for me when she's there....
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Getting any child to do homework can be difficult at the best of times. But kids with ADHD need a little creative coaching from their parents and teachers. One of my favourite strategies is to use humour or fun to motivate kids. Combine learning the times tables with bouncing a basketball. Or help your child learn about fractions...
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Have you ever had the opportunity to do something really cool with someone you really look up to? And then get so excited you just have to tell everyone about it? Here's the story. Just a few days ago I had the opportunity to record a show with Jeff Copper, a respected & well-known ADHD coach on his internet radio program,...
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Are you still slogging through tests and homework up to the last day of school? Some of us are. Here's some inspiration for studying if you're slogging through right up to the Christmas break this year. 1. Take a Break! Okay, it's not quite the holidays and I don't mean it's a time to go play XBox (it will be soon, though!). But...
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What if every student in your class felt ready, willing and able to work? Even the distracted and annoying kids who never seem to be paying attention. Well that's me, and I want to share with you seven things for teachers to know for successfully teaching kids with ADHD in the classroom. 1. Freedom – Students with ADHD need the...
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I’m 41 years old. I was diagnosed with ADD at 21. Get your abacus. That’s 20 years. In that time I’ve worked in Afghanistan, resident halls, traveled to Australia, South Africa and London, England. I’ve spoken at conferences like the World Domination Summit, and I’ve been a coach and mentor. I’m also bilingual. You see,...
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Sometimes it takes an eye-opening event before others realize how much ADHD might affect your life. Here's what happened one day when I left my Auntie Barb in the men's bathroom at the park. I think you might get a kick out of hearing her tell it. It opened her eyes to the very real ways that having ADHD affects my life -- she...
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As I write this, we're about to launch ADHD Kids Rock in four days. We're down to the wire. My team is feeling the crunch, preparing to launch something that's been a big dream for a long time. We're feeling a buzz of amazing energy from all the people that have committed their time, money and effort to this project. This week,...
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"Aright so, I'm Jeff. I have ADHD. I can be really silly." Those are usually the first words I say when I'm with a new teacher or coach or whatever kind of adult I'm going to be working with. It's one of the advocacy strategies that's working for me. I let these guys know what to expect right up front. They might ask a...
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If you want me to do something, ask me. As a kid with ADHD, people often deal with me by raising their voices or becoming more stern in an effort to be more clear. Don't we all HATE getting told what to do? I have a backpack of burdens. A lot of things on my plate. But if you ask for my input, it's as though there's a...
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Even though ADHD medication can significantly help, it's not necessarily easy to get the right medication and get it to work smoothly for a kid. Here's how it happened for me. It took trying a few different ADHD meds and some scary fails before finding the best fit. Looking back, I realize we could have come up with a medication plan...
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Contributed by Andrew Lawrence Transparent Solutions Bio: Andrew Lawrence, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). Owner of Transparent Solutions in Burnaby British Columbia Link to his site: http://www.transparent.ca/ First off I should say that I never really thought of myself as somebody with ADHD. It wasn’t...
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When I was first diagnosed with ADHD, my doctor sat me down and told me something that has stuck with me and helped me realize how I can be productive with my time. He said, having ADHD doesn't make you have less attention than everyone else, it makes you have a LOT more attention. If you can learn to channel all that attention...
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