Possible Psychosocial Side Effects of ADHD Meds

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Parenting is the most important job you will ever do.

It can also be the most difficult!

Possible Psychosocial Side Effects of ADHD Meds

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Parenting is the most important job you will ever do.

It can also be the most difficult!

Whining and crying are employed by kids for the purpose of getting something. If it works, then it was worth the effort and will be repeated.

Criticism is not a motivator.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. (Peggy O'Mara)

Wouldn't it be nice if children would simply listen and learn.

Many clinicians find it easier to tell parents their child has a brain-based disorder than suggest parenting changes. Jennifer Harris (psychiatrist)

Don't wait for him to turn 10 before you reveal that you are not in fact the hired help whose job it is to clean up after him.

The mistake that Sharon and I both made is we never set any boundaries. (Ozzy Osbourne)

Relationships matter: change comes through forming trusting relationships. People, not programs change people.

If it was going to be easy to raise kids, it never would have started with something called "labour".

"The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children" (King Edward VII , 1841-1910)

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