Helping Kids With ADHD Succeed in School

" Welcome to our web -- I'm on credit cry -- a typical school day dress on any child. But for a child with 88 -- the academic -- the demands of school can be too much to their alone. How can parents help and how do you know when to help. Joining me answer these questions -- doctor. And developmental pediatrician. Specializing in eighty each. Thank you Clinton. Thank you it's nice to be here how to having ADHD affect a child's ability to do school work children with ADHD have trouble paying attention they have difficulty with completing assignments and they frequently get distracted by other things going on in the classroom. Their main difficulty. Really scanners around. Starting their work getting their work and it has some children also have trouble with their behaviors. Or relationships with both -- teachers and other children in the class -- all of these combined to create difficulties -- in the class so what are the first step parent should take it they think they're out with ADHD. Struggling in school. I think the most important thing for a child with ADHD because of the -- internal organization. Is you have an orderly organized home that they do follow routines. And I think parents can be -- of extreme importance here in setting up preteens at home routines for doing homework in the evening getting out of house and the mourning and remembering everything that you need a brain. So that parent and child can work together with a therapist or on with the teacher -- adding some of these assignments there -- available private counselors who can count on how to promote these routines in the home. Setting up thirteen for taking medication in the morning is important. What we'd like to do -- have schedules that are written out for the children and that allowed them to -- off as they do each one of these -- in the morning so what organizer -- You know brushing your teeth taking medication checking your backpack would all be part of that the child with and check off the one and have a list of what they need to do instead of always running around in the morning to organized indoor late or not being able to find something because they don't have that list. On this very important to set up these structures and support at home and parents are really the ones that need to help kids do this and then follow through. -- apparently struggling with the organization they need to get help in that area or the parent has eighty. 88 to me. But these are very important the ordeal in that organization the structure and getting uproot and call for help but I don't. Perform better and you know a lot of these kids on their home for the day in fat. By this frustration and disorganization and even before they leave their house in the morning and if we can eliminate that he'll be starting their day on a much better note demand around that the organization that usually happens at home getting out in the morning and what can parents do to help their children with typical parents can help kids armed with her social skills in many ways. One of the ways I found to be most effective in the role playing if a child having difficulty joining in a group or having difficulty. On socially relating to the other kids its appearance -- role play on the fat and gives a child actually has gripped. I'm telling a child using the other child's name they somewhat likeable or asking about the other child instead of talking about him out and what is your favorite color what your favorite TV out that you start role playing and writing scripts and showing the child they can do that that's useful we know that children not to retaliate -- find that they are not being respected here -- Then when you -- that's a great class and because it is extremely difficult to reach kids in general but with ADHD can be even more -- I'm we will have a suggestions for that you need help and parenting technique certainly get it if you're having difficulty. With knowing how to handle situations are a lot of experts and books out there that you can't read to give -- and helped in the area. But I think again taking breaks for yourself and your yourself as a character of these children is very important you need support for your house. You need to avoid burnout. You need to get your spouse or partner or someone else to -- used sometimes having these kids go to a camp for kids -- dating a year spent some time -- grandparent would give you a break but in order for you to be able to deal with easy -- Supportive way unique to frequently get help for your help and support yourself and I highly encourage every parent. Crew on the needs to do that to look for areas within the community or within and near our own. Circle. For ways to get help and support so it is okay to admit depending you're not handling it well absolutely on -- allowing -- to apologize infrequently these kids do illicit. On either yelling or -- response system where all of very often sorry for things we ever done with our children and I think -- again one of the most important things he has to become distant but also to acknowledge when you make mistakes and armed by cutting up no one's perfect and and I did not react appropriately but you're away that I can handle -- I can apologize. And I and then -- work differently at work harder to not make that mistake again we're teaching and and again modeling support units. On ways to handle what we make me and I think that's an important point to slam you've given us from very useful and remain in Vatican had one -- to give a parent about helping their children but ADHD. What would it be. I think it's really helping your child. On being a support for your child believing in your time on its like 88 he has so much difficulty and they're really fighting on many battles out there when they leave the home. If a parent and on believe in their child and convey that. To their title on that there is life after school that this is not the most important thing that's going to happen. Being a good person and working hard and having those values doing the best you can do. Even that means you may fail a test in history and fifth grade on we find that that kids with 88 any anti adults with Canadian -- most successful are the ones that can't believe in themselves and understand. That we hard work and getting -- help you need. -- to transport to buy irradiated. -- a parent can convey that by loving their child by believing in them and by deporting them that their most important role and their most important."