Top Tips to Help Your ADHD Child Thrive in School This Year

In this article, I will be sharing some of my best tips how to help your ADHD child succeed in school.?????????

As I do not know you or your situation personally, you’ll need to take these ideas and adapt them to your unique situation.

The new school year comes around so quickly.????????

Before you know, it’s time for them to be back in school. The new school year is a time for new opportunities and change. As a parent of a child with ADHD you are the best person to help your child succeed in any school year.

However the best ADHD success ideas in the world will be useless if your ADHD child is not be motivated to carry them through.

IF your child has ADHD they will find boring tasks especially difficult to carry out through to completion. This is one source of your ADHD child’s lateness.

There is more info about this and more tools in my ?groundbreaking book “Own Your ADHD”.

THE TIME-TIMER TO MOTIVATE YOUR CHILD

One way to motivate your child is to create a race against the clock. Try to get those boring tasks done within a certain time frame. This works well because when your child starts to move their body they activate the chemical dopamine in their brain. Part of the ADHD challenge is an imbalance of this vital chemical. Dopamine is the motivator hormone. Use a timer. I use the TIME TIMER. You can buy it on Amazon.

I use these amazing timers for my family. I have one upstairs hanging next to the tooth brushing station. I have one in the kitchen and one in the playroom.? They come in various sizes; I like the 12 inch version for the home the best as it is so big but the 8 inch is great value and I take the 3 inch pocket timetimer with me to client sessions.

THE THREE PHASES OF TIME

The timetimer???? is far better than digital timers because it shows the three phases of time, past, present and future. Children with ADHD often have difficulty assessing time. The timetimer helps you to ground them in space and time.?????

There is a hook to hang up the timer, so it is visible in the entire room. There is a loud buzzer that sounds to announce that time is up. You can choose to turn off the buzzer if you so wish. The buzzer on the 12 inch timer is so loud, I can hear it two flights up. This is so important because one of the common challenges that your child faces is that they get easily distracted and move onto other tasks.

The loud buzzer pulls them back to the current task.

TEACH YOUR CHILD PROSPECTIVE THINKING TOOLS

Your ADHD child lives on two phases, “now” and “not now.” The present, “the now” exists, the future, “the not now” does not. Your ADHD child will find it very difficult to visualise what is coming next especially a little further into the future such as in a week’s time.

This is called prospective thinking, and is a vital tool for school and life success.

If your child finds it difficult to visualise the future this will make it very hard to plan for the future. One reason why your ADHD child gets into trouble (read not done homework etc) is because they fail to plan because they fail to see the future and the future consequences of their actions or inactions. You can teach your child this skill little by little. Start a week before school.

Informally ask your child what the time is, then ask them what subject they think they will be learning this time next week. Turn this into a fun game. By doing this you will sew the seeds to help your child think about and visualise the future.

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