School and Calendars Are ADHD BFF
What The Research Says About Calendars Did you know that… Having and using a daily calendar has a major impact on whether students will meet their daily responsibilities like getting to appointments and completing homework and chores! Researchers taught a group of high school student to have and to use a calendar. Prior to the […]
Transitions are an ADHD Challenge Right in Your Own Home
Energy Transitions Moving from Room to Room My client remarked in session this week, ‘It’s a transition just for me to turn around and go to the next room!’ ADHD Coaching is the best job. I get to ask questions and I hear the most interesting comments. This client answered a question I hadn’t asked, […]
Summer Bored? Assess Your Access to Summer Success!
What Does Boredom Feel Like? Boredom, part of life with ADHD, is a transient state of consciousness just as attention is a state of consciousness at the moment. Boredom is diabolical for families in the summertime and even vacations have a boredom factor (talk to my children). Do you remember the sense of boredom that […]
Attention Challenges Among the Indigenous
Do You See Attention in Everyone? by Maureen Nolan on December 6, 2011 I travel on PBS. Occasionally, by car. But usually through the nature and travel channels. Recently I ventured on U-tube to the Sierra Nevada mountains in Colombia, South America. Here, a flourishing First Nation group, the Kogi, live as an uninterrupted lineage […]
Stop Interrupting Me!
How Daddy Taught Us to Interrupt The supper table was Daddy’s pulpit. This is where we had his attention if only for an hour a day and we fought like cats and dogs to keep him engaged in our stories. And unlike a dog fighting trainer he sicced us on each other in a playful […]