William Stixrud

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 158: The Self-Driven Child with William Stixrud and Ned Johnson · 20 May 2019 podcast

And it turns out, my my experience is that it's not developmental.

It doesn't change until the energy changes.

And there's a woman who mentioned the book who who has the first program that I'm aware of.

For ADHD kids, teenagers, that focuses on the promotion of autonomy.

Because as you said, that all the research is on use of rewards, very almost no attention to the development of autonomy, which is so crucial for internal motivation.

And what this clinician says is that in her experience, 40% of parents who are kids with ADHD, by the time you get 16, are kind of burnt out.

out and you're on your own, buddy.

I've done what I could.

And and another forty percent are s are still microm micromanage the kids' life with a lot of pushback.

And that only twenty really are have kind of really been focusing on this development of autonomy.

And I I have a m my son uh was a kind of a late bloomer kid with ADHD and learning disabilities and no academic pressure.

I never fought with him about schoolwork.

And I I felt so lucky that when he was five, I I was I was um advising people the set the title of the second chapter of our book, which is I love you too much to fight with you about your homework.

And that's where I introduced this idea of being a consultant.

I I I consulted with him.

I I was available to help him, but I didn't want to force my help on him.

I didn't want to work harder than he did.

I didn't want to put more energy than my son did.

And he he got through school and eventually a as with that great burst of of frontal lobe maturation that happens in in adulthood, Ron got a PhD in psychology.

And I just think that if we think about the who whose responsibility is it?

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