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​Building Social Emotional Skills - Creating Successful Socially Distanced and Virtual Play Dates for Children with ADHD

10/17/2020

 
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​At times, it can be challenging for a parent of a child with ADHD to help them maneuver through social situations. When things do not go well, we may feel distressed and worry about our children’s social wellbeing. It may leave us feeling lost and unclear about the best way to support our children.  

Learning how to engage socially can be a long process. Rather than focusing on it all at once, taking one interaction at a time allows you to break down the process and make it less overwhelming. In this way, you are providing opportunities for your children to have success engaging with their peers and supporting the development of social-emotional skills.

The following steps may help you support positive social experiences for children with ADHD:



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Parenting During a Pandemic:

4/28/2020

 

Small Steps that Can go A Long Way

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These are not “normal” times and so we are all adjusting and trying to figure out our new normal. For parents, there is a double challenge of finding this new normal for yourselves as well as our children. But know that you are not alone in this journey and there are a few principles that can help guide you at this challenging time.


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A Mindful and Effective Route to Parenting

1/29/2020

 

How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Your Daily Parenting Practices and Manage Challenges 

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For many of us, becoming a parent leads us to question every value and action we take as we begin to look at how this impacts our little one. This introspective journey can feel like an emotional rollercoaster, and we may often find ourselves trying to Google our way off of this ride with some clear direction. But many parenting methods miss the mark, as they focus on a simplistic strategy that overlooks the nuances of parenting.


Regardless of the strategy you use, there is a layer underneath… ​
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The life-changing benefits of doing 'nothing' with your children

6/23/2018

 
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Azine Graff, PsyD
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When we think of spending time with our children, we probably consider engaging in a scheduled or structured activity. We may even have back-to-back scheduled activities to fill our weekend, which can be exhausting for parent and child alike.

But then we’re missing out on a very different and important need when we over-schedule ourselves: The need for time together with no agenda.
It can be challenging to shift from being busy all the time to slowing down. It is a lot easier, in theory, to put away our phones, to say “no” to another birthday party, to postpone running errands, or to hold off on feeling productive.

As you begin to make room in your schedule for more free time with each other, you are investing in your child and your relationship, and it will pay off now and in the future.

This can look like sitting down to play with your child and allowing them to lead the play. The time you spend with them and follow their lead will help them feel empowered in their lives, give them a chance to feel in control over one aspect of their lives, and make them more likely to willfully follow your requests when they need to.

These moments that you spend playing, joking and laughing with your child also sends them a message--you are showing them that you love them, value them and enjoy their presence.
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Know that despite what they may say when they are distressed, they love you, respect you and enjoy being in connection with you. They might just struggle to show it at times, especially if they have no breaks and have a tough time transitioning between the several activities crammed into a day. But small changes can go along way.
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Why you need to hug your child when they are being 'the worst'

2/22/2018

 
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Azine Graff, PsyD

It can be hard to consider hugging our child when they are acting out. There’s this fear of reinforcing the behavior, and so we have been taught to punish, remove toys, ignore the behavior, and respond with a poker face.
But consider a time when you had a rough day, snapped at your partner over something trivial, and all you felt you really needed to melt away the stress was a hug or some comfort.
Did you ask for a hug? If so, then what a gift you and your partner have to be vulnerable and communicate so openly. If you didn’t ask, think about why? Maybe what you needed did not even cross your mind. Maybe you were too heated and on the defense to ask.
When we are in a heated moment or feeling a surge of our emotions, it makes it much harder to think rationally. When considering our children and how they are developing their prefrontal lobe (the part that does a lot of the planning and decision-making), it then makes sense that they have much more difficulty in expressing themselves calmly when under stress.

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