All children need four things: your ear, your empathy, your acknowledgment, and special time alone with you. This is how they feel supported and valued by the family.This also requires a steady level of parental calm that is elusive amid quarantine-related uncertainty, stress, and financial insecurity.
It’s difficult, but important, to shield our kids from those worries right now. Remember, your family’s ship needs a calm captain who is able to anticipate choppy waters, and navigate around them safely and steadily.The rough seas of ADHD are particularly turbulent for kids right now.
Online learning is not as engaging as are classroom instruction and discussion. Kids miss their friends, their teachers, and their extracurricular activities —
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