Holiday Tips For Parents With Kids With AD/HD
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Holiday Tips For Parents With Kids With AD/HD
Hello Everyone!
In interviewing parents of children with AD/HD, the following activities were said to help them during the Holidays and beyond. If you think about each one carefully, you will see they can help you. I used these points in one of my seminars.
1. Closely co-parent during the good and bad periods and be as consistent as possible.
2. Planned alternative times that one parent primarily parents and the other takes time
off.
3. Take a day at a time.
4. Deal with one problem at a time.
5. As possible, parent time outs when on emotional overload.
6. Write a diary of your feelings.
7. Letters to God letting all your feelings out.
8. All family members must know AD/HD is a family issue and all are involved in
maintaining family sanity.
9. Be ready to problem-solve/brainstorm whenever the moment is ripe.
10. A good cry to let the hurt and anger out.
11. Maintain the same medication dosages and times.
12. A good sleep.
13. A massage/physical exercise/reading/a trip to the hot tub/treat yourself to something
nice/deep relaxation strategies/hypnosis/watching a move/listening to or playing
music, etc.
14. Talking to a close friend(s) and/or family member(s) as possible.
15. Talking to parents with AD/HD children.
16. Parent getaways during the holidays as during the rest of the year.
17. Stay away from toxic people in your life.
18. Stay away from places that have too much activity and cause sensory overload.
19. Accept "clutterness."
20. Keep them busy with activities that can be done quickly. (As one parent said, "I feel
like a Las Vegas card dealer".)
21. Try to give advance cues as best you can during transitions from one activity to
another.
22. Let others know about your child in an honest and straightforward way.
23. Maintain saneness and predictability as best one can during such an eventful period
as the holidays.
24. Avoid the "big struggle" when family members go to war against each other.
25. Balance attention in the family to try to meet each member's needs.
26. Accept what you must and change what you can with yourself and your child.
27. Love and respect yourself as you do your child and other loved ones.
28. Never give up hope.
29. Seek professional help when you feel it is necessary.
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