List of Blog Posts

List of Blog Articles

• Why Your Child Doesn’t Want Your Advice (Even When They Come to You)
• What Are the Developmental Norms for Executive Function Skills?
• Creating a Calmer, More Connected School Year with Your Child
• Why the Reward Chart Isn’t Working – at Home or at School
• New Research on the ADHD Brain: What I’m Updating in My Teaching
• To the Teachers Who Showed Up Anyway
• Why Camp Can Be So Hard for Kids with ADHD
• Why Friendship Feels So Complicated for Neurodivergent Adults
• What Schools Are Required to Do for Students with ADHD (But Often Don’t)
• When Love Meets Boundaries: Family Relationships Across Generations
• What Parents Really Need from the Professionals in Their Child’s Life
• 504 Plans and IEPs: Helping Your Child Get the Support They Need
• Talking to Your Child About ADHD Medication
• What We’re Missing in ADHD Treatment
• Chasing the Moon Together: Parenting, Possibility, and Raising Children Who Feel Seen
• Why the Science of Reading Is at the Center of U.S. Education Policy
• Using Declarative Language with Kids with ADHD: When Fewer Demands Create More Change
• Why Caffeine Isn’t a Substitute for ADHD Medication (And Why That’s Okay)
• Using Stories to Support ADHD Brains
• Why Behavior Charts Keep Failing Students with ADHD
• 8 Classroom Shifts That Make a Real Difference for Students with ADHD
• How the ADHD Conversation Has Changed – and What Hasn’t
• Today is launch day.
• Balancing Rigor and Inclusion in Competitive Schools
• The Marshmallow Test, Revisited
• Teaching Teachers to Manage ADHD and Executive Function
• Control, Not Controlling: Parenting Kids with ADHD
• Why Does My Kid Always Wait Until the Last Minute?
• The Big 7 Parenting Skills That Actually Help
• When Homework Feels Impossible
• Helping Families Navigate ADHD, Medication, and Support
• Supporting Kids with ADHD Starts with Supporting Parents
• When Your Child Doesn’t Want Your Hug
• ADHD Skills Every Teacher Needs – But Were Never Taught
• Why the College Essay Is So Hard for Students with ADHD – and What Actually Helps
• We Know Better About ADHD. Imagine If We Did Better for Kids
• The Parent-Teen Connection: A Conversation About Raising Teens with Care and Connection
• 5 Ways to Help Kids with ADHD Develop Stronger Social Skills
• Why High-Achieving Kids Still Need ADHD Evaluations (Even When They’re Doing Well in School)
• Why an ADHD Diagnosis Isn’t a Label – It’s a Lens
• Parent the Child You Have: Understanding ADHD, Letting Go of Guilt, and a First Look at My New Book
• Whether You’re Raising Teens or Expecting Your First – These Parenting Conversations Are Still Worth Having
• Response to the WSJ Article on Kids and ADHD Medication
• ADHD, History, and Hope: How the Children of the ’60s Can Help Protect the Rights They Never Had
• The Power of Kidversations: Build Trust, One Question at a Time
• Productivity is Hard with ADHD – How to Make It Easier
• Protecting IDEA: The Role of OSEP
• Can Executive Function Skills Improve? What Research Really Says
• When Students Aren’t Coachable Yet: How Parent Coaching Can Bridge the ADHD Readiness Gap
• The Smartest Investment Schools Aren’t Making (Yet): ADHD Parent Coaching
• Gentle vs. Tough: A Better Model for Parenting Kids Who Struggle
• The World Needs More ADHD Parent Coaches
• Summer Coaching for Teens with ADHD
• Why Structure and Consistency Matter for Kids with ADHD
• Supporting Arabic-Speaking Parents
• How to Support Adult Children and Grandchildren with ADHD
• Beyond the ADHD Diagnosis: What Kids with ADHD Really Need – Response to The NY Times Article
• Childhood Anxiety: A Conversation with Author Deb Prudhomme
• Think Your Kid Has ADHD? Just Got the Diagnosis? Now What?
• Popsicles in Space
• Mastering Time with ADHD
• 8 Essential Strategies for Supporting Students with ADHD in the Classroom
• 5 Tips to Tame Screen Time
• What the U.S. Department of Education Does – and Does Not Do
• Teaching Your Child to Ride a Bike Builds Important Skills
• Let’s Talk About Processing Speed
• 4 Tips to Make Your Mornings Less Hectic
• Why Closing the Department of Education Would Undermine Special Needs Students, Marginalized Communities, and Equitable Access for All
• What’s Really at Stake for Public Education? A Personal Note
• Advocate for ADHD Teacher Training
• Transforming the School Experience with Little-Known Coaching Strategies
• My Day on Capitol Hill – Advocating with the Special Education Legislative Summit
• Why Does My Child Behave Differently at Home vs School?
• How AI Can Improve Education for Neurodiverse Learners
• How is Your Parenting Ride?
• Teacher Insights: Do all Students with ADHD need an IEP?
• Teaching Effective Fidgeting
• Professional Development Training
• School In-Service Presentations
• ADHD Coaching – A Guide for Parents
• The Power of ADHD Coaching
• Help Students Struggling with ADHD
• Reflections from an ADHD Parent Coach
• Student Mental Health
• Let’s Stop Timed Tests
• Finding Balance: Supporting the Needs of the Individual Student with the Needs of the Classroom of Students
• Fidgeting and Movement
• Struggle to Success: The Power of ADHD Coaching
• Train All Teachers About ADHD Challenges
• Six Benefits of Parent-Centered Coaching
• Alternative Treatments for ADHD
• Becoming a Parent Coach
• Keep It Real Online Campaign – Brilliant!
• TIME MANAGEMENT – IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR!
• Dystinct Magazine – ADHD in the Classroom
• Talking to Your Child About ADHD Medication
• ADHD and ODD
• Consistent Parenting and Setting Limits
• What is Executive Dysfunction?
• Ten Steps to Support Children with ADHD
• How Can I Improve My Parenting Skills and Confidence?
• Phonics or Balanced Literacy: How Does Your School Teach Reading?
• How to Stop Enabling and Start Trusting: ADHD Independence-Building Strategies for Parents
• ADHD and Dyslexia – They Often Walk Together
• Is My ADHD Support Helping or Hurting?
• Meet The Teacher: How to Build Relationships This Back-to-School Season
• Supporting vs. Enabling with Brendan Mahan from ADHD Essentials Podcast
• Training Teachers to Help Kids with ADHD with Dana Kay from Soaring Child
• Another School Year Begins – Are you Ready to Help your Student with ADHD Succeed??
• Partnering with Your Child’s Doctor: ADHD & Behavioral Concerns
• Nonverbal Communication – A Fun Introduction or Reminder for 4 to 8-year-olds
• Understanding & Utilizing Your Child’s Evaluations
• Does My Child Need Diagnostics?
• Paving the Road to Self-Advocacy for the High School to College Transition
• The Impact of ADHD and Sensory Processing Challenges on Sports Skills
• Picky Eating and ADHD
• Mindfulness & Meditation for Adults with Jo Futerman
• Advancements in ADHD Understanding & Treatment
• Mindfulness & Meditation for Students
• Growth and Self-Improvement Portfolio
• In Search Of – Mental Health Professionals Who Understand ADHD
• Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal – Lessons from a Navy Seal
• Initiation & Activation: 2 Exercises to Help Kids Focus
• Protected: Managing HW, Parent Edition: Slideshow
• The Kinesthetic Classroom: How Movement Benefits all Students, Especially Those with Symptoms of ADHD
• Launching Into Young Adulthood with ADHD…Ready or Not!
• From Service Dog to SURFice dog
• ADHD is Not a Problem of KNOWING What To Do – It’s a Problem of DOING What You Know
• Ready, Set…Now How Do I Get Started?
• College Search Considerations for Students Needing Accommodations by Sara Zessar
• ADHD: Managing Your Emotions and Everyone Else’s… UGH!   
• What is Calm & Connected© and APCA©? An interview with Cindy Goldrich and Dulce Torres.
• Protected: CC 7 Session Slideshow SPANISH
• Guiding Bright Minds: Top Ten Strategies to Parenting Children & Teens with ADHD/EF Challenges
• Adult ADHD and Motherhood: 6 Expert Tips for a Calmer Home
• The Metacognitive Student: How to Teach Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence
• Breaking Through the Fatigue Wall – Stress & Executive Function: On the Right Road with Paula Phillips
• 3 Tips for Effective Study Breaks
• ICF Certification by Becoming an ADHD Parent Coach
• How ADHD Parent Coaching Can Boost Child Therapy Success
• Distance Learning: A 504 Plan for ADHD That Works
• Can We Stop the Fighting Over Homework?
• The Student Wheel of Life: How Satisfied Are You Now?
• “Why Don’t You Listen?” How to Stop Nagging and Start Communicating
• Sky’s The Limit – ADHD Is Your Kid’s Superpower! Career Development for Teens & Adults with ADHD
• The Check-In: Parent-Teacher Conferences
• Flexible Thinking – Mindprint Learning
• Is Clutter Controlling Your Child’s ADHD Life – or Yours?
• What Every High School and College Kid Needs to Know About Their ADHD Medication
• ADHD Diagnosis, Therapy, & Treatment Guide
• Maybe it IS ADHD – Does it Really Matter?
• Parenting a Child with ADHD During Covid
• How Do We Bridge This Divide That is Gripping Our Nation?
• Professional ADHD Parent Coach Academy
• Introduction to Dyslexia
• Triggers and Opportunities for Children with ADHD
• Available for Your School:  Supporting Teachers and Parents: Addressing the Social and Emotional Impact on Us All – Live-Webinar Discussions
• Interesting New Treatment Idea for Treating ADHD
• Help Your Children Work More Independently: Self-Regulation, Executive Function Skills & the Real Lessons of the Marshmallow Test
• Parenting with Adult ADD
• Meet Cindy Goldrich: Voyage Denver’s Most Inspiring Stories
• Supporting Your Child’s Mental Health Using Technology
• Addressing the Link Between Learning Differences and Anxiety & Depression
• What is Involved in Getting an Evaluation for ADHD and Learning Disabilities?
• Parenting Your Child for Career Success
• 5 Ways Your School Speech-Language Pathologist Can Help Your Child
• How Can Occupational Therapy Help My Child with ADHD?
• Not Everyone Has a Great High School Experience
• What Makes a Good Accommodation?
• Helping Kids with ADHD Thrive in Sports
• A Fresh Take on Back-to-School Readiness
• 5 Critical Life Skills That Build Independence & Confidence
• What exactly IS a Parent Coach? 
• Stuck on an Escalator
• Late Bloomers – Hang in There
• A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD
• ADHD is Real
• Typing, Handwriting, and ADHD
• Are the Costs of Helping Your Child Keeping You from Seeking the Proper Support?
• When School is Out for Summer – Learning Isn’t! The Value of Pre-Teaching
• Emotional Intelligence and Learning 
• Your Kid’s Metacognition & Self-Talk Matters – Here’s How You Can Help
• Math Homework Help – What is the best way to help your child?
• Create Calm: 4 Steps to Calm
• Skills for Success: What Parents & Educators Need to Know About Executive Function & Mindset©
• Top Ten Strategies for Parenting Children & Teens with ADHD/Executive Function Challenges©
• The Challenges of Learning in the Digital Age
• ADHD Is Absolutely Treatable
• What Makes Waking Up So Difficult for People with ADHD
• Righting the Off-Track School Year
• Parents and Teachers Work Together – ADDitude Magazine
• Parent the child You have! An Approach to Positive Parenting with Cindy Goldrich
• ADDitude Webinar: The ADHD Guide to Productive Parent-Teacher Cooperation
• Effects Of Screen Time: Safeguarding Our Children’s Eyes (and Our Own!)
• Famous Failures
• 12 Things Kids with ADHD Would Like Their Teachers to Know
• Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want…
• How do I get my kids to talk TO me, instead of AT me…
• Does ADHD have to lead to Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
• “Take Your Pills” Documentary Debuts at SXSW
• Supporting Teachers
• Attention Talk Radio with Jeff Cooper: ADHD: Parents, Teens, Trust, and Emotional Regulation
• Ode to Motherhood
• Screens – We MUST Help Our Kids Learn to Manage
• ADHD Pathways to Success: On The Right Road with Paula Phillips
• ADHD Awareness
• DIVE: Data, Incentive, Visualize, Effort
• THE BREATH OF JOY – 1-Minute Video to Refresh and Restart
• Dr. Hallowell: Podcast Making a Smooth Back-to-School Transition
• The Morning Routine for Kids with ADHD
• 2-Minute Tutorial: How to Color-Code Your Child’s School Supplies
• 2-Minute Tutorial: How to Organize Your Child’s Locker
• 2-Minute Tutorial: How to Help Your Child Get Comfortable With a Combination Lock
• Share a great book with your kids: Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens
• How Honest Feedback and Reflection Can Help Students Thrive
• Hard Work Breeds Success
• Improve Homework Time with Strategies that Work for ADHD
• CoreBrain Journal: ADHD Parenting Evolves: Strategy Matters with Dr. Charles Parker
• CHADD: Teaching Grit, Perseverance and Frustration Tolerance with Robin Maggio
• Don’t Ban the Spinners – Teach Kids about Fidgeting and the Brain!
• How Do I help the other teachers “get it”?
• ADHD – Inattentive Type
• Peter Shankman – Faster Than Normal: Pills Don’t Teach Skills
• What is the true value of Testing Accommodations – we may not really know YET!
• Ask “Why” – It’s easier and more powerful than you realize.
• What is Social-Emotional Learning and Why is this So Important?
• Updated info on Section 504 impact regarding ADHD
• Live it to Learn it
• How about a positive perspective for our kids?
• ADDitude Magazine Online: How Mindset Impacts Learning
• ADDitude Magazine Online: Ready, Set, Work: Help Students Fight Procrastination and Get to Work
• 7 Tips for Preparing for a Great School Year
• PTS Coaching Tutors is here to support your child and you
• How to help your child with time management skills this summer
• ADHD and Teen Drivers: Sobering Statistics and Advice from the Experts
• How to effectively review your child’s school year
• PTS Coaching is growing!
• 7 ways to help with your child’s screen addiction
• Lessons from the Professionals: Create-Coach-Connect
• Interview with Dr. Christina Hibbert Motherhood TV- 8 Keys to Parenting Children with ADHD
• Why can’t he “Just Do It”? The Art of Initiation
• Do Teachers Give Too Much Homework?
• Can I help my child develop grit and perseverance?
• Can ADHD Coaching Help My Child?
• Response to Mom: Frustrated at School
• I Don’t Have Any Homework – I Just Have To Study
• Pay back or Push back? Addressing Oppositional Behavior
• “Happy Birthday, Dear! You Have ADHD!” (Published in ADDitude Magazine Fall 2015)
• Not Ready for College? Guest Post by Maureen Holohan
• “8 Keys to Parenting Children with ADHD” Selected As Winner of 2015 USA Best Book Awards
• How Fast is Smart?
• 3 Quick Tips for Learning
• Trouble Focusing? Try Fidgeting with Purpose
• When Your Child Really Doesn’t Care About School
• 504 Plan or not … Let’s help kids with ADHD learn!
• College on the horizon?
• Helping Kids Overcome Disappointment: Nurturing Strengths and Encouraging Growth
• Teaching Your Child How to Ride a Bike… And Other Important Life Skills
• What Is Reasonable To Expect From Your Child During The Summer?
• New York City Mindfulness and Education Seminar Takeaways
• ADHD – How It’s Different For Girls
• Times Tales: Times Tables made easy
• Lost at School by Ross Green
• Getting Started… Sometimes that’s the hardest part!
• The Middle School Years –Transitions, Turmoil and Teenagers Who Struggle
• Growth Really Happens!
• Finding a proper diagnosis and effective treatments for ADHD – not always easy.
• School Help for the Child Struggling with Distractions and Lack of Focus
• Honoring a Very Special Group of Mothers – Mothers of Boys and Girls who are Dyslexic
• Motivation – How Can We Help Kids Find it?
• Hands-On Support for Parents
• Parent the child You have!
• What does it take to Treat ADHD?
• Is ADHD Coaching Right for You or Your Child?
• What Accommodations and Modifications will best support your Child’s learning?
• So This is What it Feels Like… Being the Kid Who Can’t keep Up…
• Learning and the Brain: What Parents and Educators Must Know
• Can You Just Sit Still and Pay Attention? The Art of Fidgeting
• Raise Awareness…  Establish World ADHD Awareness Day
• Let’s address the REAL lesson of the Suicide of Richard Fee
• No Hits, No Runs, Many Errors…The Adult ADHD Slump
• It’s Just a Question…
• The Fine (or not so fine) Art of Effective Note Taking
• What is so Difficult about Doing Homework?
• Dear Ms. D.: I letter to my fifth grade teacher
• Tips, Tools, and Strategies for Managing the College Application Process for Students with ADHD
• ADHD and Back to School Anxiety
• Help a Teacher to Understand a Child
• Great Apps for Parents and Kids
• The ADHD Awareness Book Project: 365 Ways to Succeed with ADHD
• What Teachers Really Know About Kids with ADHD
• What Makes Waking Up So Difficult for People with ADHD
• Medication – The Parent Factor
• Casting a Wider Net: Section 504 Under the 2008 ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) ©  Lisa M. LaVardera, Esq.
• Righting the Off-Track School Year
• What Makes Sleep So Difficult for People with ADHD
• School Survival for You and Your Child
• The Pomodoro Technique
• Defeat Battle Fatigue
• For Parents: ADHD – Now What??
• For Teens: What Do You Mean I Have ADHD?!
• Just What Are Executive Functions?
• Five Strategies for Smooth Operating for the New School Year
• Talking to Your Teacher so your Teacher Understands You
• What I Learned About Time Management from Running and a Tomato