"I'm really good at sports because I have ADHD!"
When Kathleen heard her nine...
"I'm really good at sports because I have ADHD!"
When Kathleen heard her nine-year-old son say “I wish I didn’t have ADHD”, she knew she had to work to help him develop a more positive mindset around ADHD. What she recognized in him was incredible athletic ability. So, she searched for athletes that have ADHD and printed a poster for her son of athletes that have ADHD.
The poster gives Kathleen and her son the chance to discuss the strengths and benefits that come with ADHD. “With all those faces, we tell him that each of those people had to work hard to harness the positive attributes of their ADHD and have not allowed the hard parts of ADHD to bring them down”. Kathleen wants her son to know that he can be successful with hard work and with learning to harness the strengths of his ADHD.
“He told us the other day that he recently said to his friends "I'm really good at sports because I have ADHD!". We reminded him that he is really good at sports because he works hard at being good at them.”
This is a great tool for parents to use to have discussion about ADHD with their kids. How do you help your kids see the positive aspects of having #ADHD? Tell us in the comments or make an #ADHDSpeaks submission at adhdspeaks.ca, link in the bio.
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