Shauna Pearson

There just isn't.

And so you need to know that deeply, regardless of whether you're taking medication for whatever you need or not.

At the end of the day, we're all in the same boat.

The first part of my book, as I think, was why can't you just?

I grew up with why can't you just in my head forever, probably until I left for university.

And the fact is your child does not know why they can't just.

They don't know.

And

they would like to know but they don't so it doesn't make sense to ask them we need to know as adults that they can't just period and when you have if you're raising a kid and it's in your mind because you know you're able to remember certain things and you can put stuff away and you can remember your work or homework or whatever why can't your kid just if you suspect your child has adhd or any kind of learning difference

They just can't just, and there's methods and tools and systems that will help them to be able to do these things for sure.

But until they've got those locked down, now you know why, or you might know why now they can't just.

And so now it's up for you as a parent to be able to help them and possibly turn it around and ask yourself, why can't I just help my kid be able to do this in a different way?

then I do it because their brain is wired differently.

They need to do things in a different way.

So I feel like it's really helpful for parents who tend to say, why can't you just a lot to just start being like, well, why can't I just?

And no, but it's really important because a child raised underneath and I was, and probably a lot, maybe you were too, raised inside of why can't you just, it knocks your self-esteem down.

so severely and you can't recover from that.

You can't.

You can go to therapy for decades and you can do all the personal development you want, but your self-esteem is going to be hurt for the rest of your life.

So we have to do everything as parents to really help our kids see what they can do and what they can do extremely well so that they want to do even better.