Using Color Coding to Organize Your Children and Your Mind

As my kids get older, they chuckle at the ways I have compensated for my own ADHD overlaid upon their own ADHD challenges. In my thirties, as our family size exploded from 1 to 5 children,  I was often met with rude comments across the grocery aisle, like “do you know what causes it,” or “why are you having another one, you already have a boy and girl,”  or  ”you poor girl, how do...

Creating a ADHD Family Management Notebook

  One of the largest challenges of running a household, can be managing all the paper! What to keep, what to toss, where to file it, let alone filing it at all- can be an overwhelming series of tasks. Consider creating a home management notebook: create your “powermom handbook.” Start with a 1-1/2 inch 3 ring binder, a box of page protectors, and stick-on durable tabs.  Attach a tab to a page protector,...

Automating the Family Bank: Managing Allowance in an ADHD World

Fundamental to teaching children about money is having an allowance,  a portion simply collected weekly (salary), and a portion earned by completing special family household projects (commission).  Management of their allowance permits kids to learn the value of money, and experience the value of saving and budgeting. Unfortunately, facilitating this as a parent, can be complex and time consuming when managing...

15 Books Every CEO of an ADHD Family Should Read

Kid Cooperation: How to Stop Yelling, Nagging & Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate Written by “Dr. William Sears, this concise and straightforward book is filled with applied skills that teach children to cooperate, end sibling fights, boost children’s self-esteem, and help parents handle discipline and anger with understanding and authority. An enlightening “parenting style” quiz...

Evaluating Parenting Progress: Using the 6-Sided Survey

I have a lot of kids- and a lot of kids with special needs, so this problem may be unique to me, but I struggle to keep track of where I am in the process of raising my children. There are times that I am very overwhelmed by how many needs they each have or am overcome with worry that I have overlooked an issue. They are a whole person, but with special needs it is easy to hyper-focus on the educational issues and...