4 Ineffective Discipline Strategies That Make Your Child Anxious

December 27, 2022U.S. guidelines for diagnosing and treating adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are long overdue.Adult patients with ADHD deserve high-quality care, and providers likewise deserve authoritative resources that outline effective, evidence-based practices for adult ADHD.

Willpower alone cannot increase productivity in the ADHD brain. Also not helpful: the standard tips, tricks, and strategies designed for a neurotypical person. If you’re searching for effective, ADHD-friendly ways to get things done, look no further than the ADDitude community — and other readers like you who have found winning strategies by trial and error.Recently, we asked ADDitude readers to share their experience with buzz-worthy productivity tools, including brown noise, binaural beats, and bionic reading.

December 30, 2022Adults with severe ADHD symptoms were more likely to be expelled and receive reprimands from teachers as school children compared to adults with less severe or no ADHD symptoms, according to a partial study published this month in the Journal of Attention Disorders.1Researchers compared the school experiences and intensity of ADHD symptoms in 1,518 adults from the Czech Republic aged 18 to 65. Participants answered questions from the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) and were grouped according to symptom manifestation, or “ADHD type”: low, medium, and high.Findings revealed that those with higher ADHD symptoms were “significantly more likely to be expelled, receive notes for bad behavior, disturbing or forgetting, as well as receive reprimands from teachers” as children.“The results suggest that children with higher ADHD symptomatology are more likely to be forgetful, restless, and misbehave — which then gets written down by their teachers,” researchers said.

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“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin FranklinNo one knows this better than someone with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who may lose, mismanage, underestimate, squander, and search for time daily. After all, warped time perception is a core facet of ADHD.That translates into poor time management in the moment, and problems organizing toward the future.

from the public relations firm MSL U.S. and The Influencer League, which found a 29% pay gap between white influencers and influencers of color. The gap between white and Black influencers, specifically? A whopping 35%.That disparity comes as no surprise to Pamela Zapata, who saw firsthand the inequities in the industry during her decade-plus in marketing, production and influencer strategy—and set out to fix it.

Russell Edwards is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his skills and confidence. He started his coaching journey in 2020 and till now he acquired a lot of tools and coaching skills. However, as he says, learning is a life […]

Renier Jooste is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his wisdom and experience. He is a Sensitive, meaning that he is open to perceive a lot more information from the world around him. He can see patterns where others can’t. […]

For some, connecting with their father comes easy, for others not so much. While there are a myriad of reasons why people may find it hard to connect with their father, unless you have completely written your father off for a reason, you may end up with major regrets later on, if you never do.It can be difficult not to let pride lead the way. It can be difficult to think, “What’s the point?” However, at the end of the day, those “What the point?” statements can turn to, “If only I had…,” real fast.

“Literally every person is messed up, so pick your favorite train wreck and roll with it.” ~Hannah Marbach

All moms long for their babies to need them, but when a child is always clinging to their mother- it can be hard to get anything done. When this happens, a mother’s first instinct is to wonder what is going on.While some kids are naturally more clingy than others, when a child suddenly becomes clingier than usual, there is typically a reason. Some of these reasons are pretty simple, while others can be pretty complex.

As kids begin to learn the ropes, they also learn how far they can push limits. While it may be hard to face, for some, a major part of this can manifest as manipulation.No parent wants to admit their child is manipulating them, but the sooner you nip this behavior in the bud, the sooner you put a stop to it. The last thing you want to do is give in to your child’s manipulation.

The end of the year is always that special time where people start reflecting on the past 350-ish days and planning for the next 365. It’s a time where many of us love to write out goals for the upcoming New Year — some might call them “resolutions.”

How much do I need for retirement? Time to get your head out of the sand and do some easy number crunching to find out where you are and where you need to be. Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.Failing to and just hoping Social Security will carry you through retirement is a recipe for disaster.

It takes someone 33-100 milliseconds to form an opinion and impression of who you are. Sadly, in those few micro-moments, regardless of reality-most people will decide who you are and then use that judgment as a filter for relating to you.If their opinion is not good-that sadly is not likely to change. With that being said, if you have a feeling that people are getting the wrong impression of you-it may be time to take action for making better impressions moving forward.