Get Organized to Save Your Sanity
I remember when I was the mom getting 4 young kids dressed, fed and out the door for school, and off to work myself, but for us, getting ready for distance learning with my grandson required NASA level organization.
ADD/ADHD
How to Rock Distance Learning in 11 Steps
This fall, the vast majority of students will be at home for school. So how do we take this to the next level and move from surviving to thriving in the at home classroom?
Getting Creative While Raising a Right Brain Thinker
Being a right brain thinker is amazing as a kid and adult, but it can take some growing into. Right brain thinkers are so full of ideas, creativity and unique ways of doing things, it can be overwhelming even for them. Here are a few things that are crucial for your child’s success.
10 Study Tips for Visual Students
Better study = better learning = better test scores. Standardized tests are right around the corner and tests are happening every week in school. Visual students and kids with ADD don’t usually test well. Try these simple study tips to make learning more effective for our visual kids.
Make Homework Come Alive for Visual Learners
Kids with an ADD diagnosis can benefit so much from the strategies we use with visual learners because most are visual, right brain thinkers struggling to focus their big picture thinking enough to get their work done at school. ADDitude magazine agrees with me and I got published in their spring edition!
Preschool Activities We Need as Adults
Life with kids is full of activity and long to do lists. One of the ways to keep your sanity and build healthy kids is for everyone to participate in what needs to happen.
Tidying Up Clothes
Creating and maintaining organized spaces is not just about helping your child function more effectively. Start with something that already has a specific space, the dresser.
Tidy Space, Happy Face
When kids learn to create and maintain order in their physical space, they create and maintain order internally. In short, order on the outside helps create order on the inside.
Give Your ADHD Kid the Gift of a Good Night’s Sleep
I did it. I bought a weighted blanket. I liked it so much, I bought three weighted blankets. I had read about the benefits of weighted blankets for so long but never acted, so finally, I took the plunge.
9 Great Gifts for Kids with ADHD
Our ADHD kids can be easily over stimulated by the sheer amount of gifts and activity that the holidays bring. This list contains a mix of creative activities and ideas to calm their ever active minds.
