William Stixrud
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322 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2021
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And it it couldn't be a parent's responsibility to try to make their kid work because all the kid would have to do is flop to the floor and we couldn't make them.
And I think recognizing that and changing the energy is healthy and it's effective.
Let me one add one thing about rewards.
As we say in the book, we we aren't opposed with kids with ADHD to using rewards in in a particular kind of way, in the sense that if we know
Kids with eighty eight, they sit down for with a boring assignment.
And they don't have enough dopamine in their prefrontal cortex to focus on it.
Let's do something to promote the dopamine.
And I'm okay with with explaining to the kid about his brain, about the this this this insufficient dopamine.
And if a reward might stimulate him a little bit, produce the dopamine.
I I'm I'm willing to do it.
I just don't think that we want to basically be bribing kids, do it for me.
This is what you need to do and I'll you're I'll I'll reward you to do it, as opposed to using rewards to help a kid accomplish his own goals.
You know, I'll I'll say that this is a very different kind of idea for many parents.
W one one of our one of my clients about a year ago when the book came out, she emailed me and said, I just told my eighth grade son, I love you too much to fight with you about your homework.
And first he smiled and then he hugged me and then he said, Is something wrong with your mom?
That's great.
And you know, and uh years ago, sometime in the nineteen eighties, a book came out called How to Deal with Your Acting Up Teenager.
that also takes this approach of not trying to force or not trying to control your kids all the time.
And a lot of parents of kids with ADHD said, well this doesn't apply to my kids.
And I called one of the authors of the book, who was probably in her late seventies at the time, and I said, You folks think this applies to kids with ADHD?
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