TPP 349: Surviving and Thriving as a Parent with ADHD, with Elaine Taylor-Klaus (Impact ADHD)
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What sparked the conversation about parenting with ADHD and neurodivergent children?
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We have to give ourselves permission to do it the way that works for us and for our kids and to stop trying to hit everybody else's expectations. To we have to shed the shoulds. And just because my sister in law or my brother in law or my friend down the street does it a certain way doesn't mean that's what it's gonna look like in in my house. I had to let go of living up to everybody else's expectations, including the ones I thought I had set for myself, and really start meeting my kids where they were and myself.
I'm Debbie Rieber and welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. Today I'm covering a topic that was suggested by a listener. And as soon as I read her email, I was like, yes. And also, I can't believe we haven't done an episode on this yet. So today we're going to be talking about being a parent with ADHD who is parenting neurodivergent children. Because I know there are endless parenting responsibilities that rely heavily on having solid executive function skills or balancing an inordinate Amount of demands and emotional labor, and I know that these same requirements are likely not super strengths for parents with ADHD.
This is where my guest today, Elaine Taylor Klaus, found herself, stressed, overwhelmed, and struggling as a mom to three complex kids. When she initially shared with a psychiatrist how badly she was doing and asked if there might be something else going on, she was told, yes, it's called being a mom. But Elaine pushed for answers, finally getting a diagnosis of ADHD when she was in her early 40s. And that new identification and the personal development journey it initiated changed life for Elaine and her family in the best possible way. Today, Elaine is a professional certified coach, parenting coach, writer, and speaker. As the founder of Impact ADHD, she provides ADD parenting support for managing complex kids with ADHD and other challenges.
Through her business, she teaches parents to develop personalized strategic plans for themselves and their families and how to communicate more effectively with their kids. Elaine is also the author of the book, The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, anxiety, and more. This is such a good conversation today as we get into the many things parents with ADHD typically struggle with, how parents can best support themselves with the emotional and mental demands of parenting. And of course, we touch upon the many strengths of ADHD that can be leveraged to make a neuromixed family work better. I hope you enjoy the show.
How did Elaine discover her own ADHD diagnosis in her early 40s?
Hey Elaine, welcome to the podcast. Hi Debbie, thanks. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I can't actually believe that you haven't been on the show before 'cause we've been in conversation several times for your awesome summits that you do. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to this. Is also a new topic for the show, which at this point it's kind of hard to find new topics. So again, I can't believe we haven't had this conversation. So we're gonna be talking about Today, being a parent with ADHD, raising an ADHD kid. And as a way to get into that, I'd love if you could tell us a little bit about your story of discovering your own ADHD, which I know happened when you were an adult. And I just kind of want to get a sense of where you're coming at this conversation from.
Sure. I said to you earlier, thank you for having the conversation because it's so important and I Have so many conversations with adults with ADHD or their own neurodivergence and Sometimes they were diagnosed on their own as kids and now they're adults and they realize they never dealt with it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What sparked the conversation about parenting with ADHD and neurodivergent children?
0:00–3:10
2
How did Elaine discover her own ADHD diagnosis in her early 40s?
3:10–6:53
3
What were the biggest challenges Elaine faced as a parent with ADHD before getting diagnosed?
6:53–10:10
4
How can parents give themselves permission to break “shoulds” and create their own parenting systems?
10:10–13:57
5
What practical strategies did Elaine develop to simplify reward systems and improve consistency?
13:57–18:19
6
How does focusing on strengths rather than deficits change the parenting experience for neuro‑mixed families?
18:19–24:09
7
What resources and coaching approaches does Impact ADHD offer for families with complex kids?
24:09–29:04
8
What final advice does Elaine give to overwhelmed parents seeking a shift in perspective?
29:04–41:01
Speakers
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