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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of the In It podcast and who are the hosts?
Hey there, it's Debbie. I'm doing something a little different on the pod today. In fact, I wanted to share an episode of another podcast with you that I thought you'd really like. It's called In It, Raising Kids Who Learn Differently, and it's for parents of children who have challenges with reading, math, focus, and other learning differences like ADHD and dyslexia. In It has been on my radar for many years now. I've always really enjoyed the practical and supportive conversations aimed at parents, caregivers, teachers, and sometimes kids. I just listened to this episode with Dr. Roberto Olivardia, who is one of my go-to gurus on all things ADHD. So I wanted to share this with you. It's called ADHD and Puberty, What to Expect.
And it goes into how these two factors can affect each other. Such helpful and comforting info. Here's the episode.
From the Understood Podcast Network, this is In It, a podcast about the ins and outs, the ups and downs, of supporting kids who learn and think differently. I'm Gretchen Wierstra, a former classroom teacher and an editor here at Understood.
And I'm Rachel Bozek, a writer and editor with a family that's definitely in it. Today, we're talking about this sometimes challenging, never boring journey that is puberty for kids who have ADHD. For
this conversation, we're bringing back Roberto Olivardia, a Massachusetts-based clinical psychologist who with more than 20 years of experience evaluating people for things like ADHD. He's also someone who, himself, was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.
But first, we wanted to bring in the voices of some parents who are very much in it when it comes to raising teenagers who have ADHD and who very generously share their experiences with us.
My name is Stephanie, and I am going to tell you about my son who has ADHD and is about to turn 13 years old.
My name is Nick, and I'm here to talk about my child going through puberty with ADHD.
My name is Brandy and I'm the mother of two teenage daughters. Both have ADHD and one has dyslexia. I would say when puberty hit, the number one thing that was difficult was working on self-care, showering, brushing your teeth, washing your face. That's a struggle even as an adult with ADHD. So, you know, and it's a sensitive topic. Everything's a sensitive topic usually with teenagers.
Yeah, some of the unique challenges I would say is just like dealing with school, balancing that with home and family life, you know, because he wants to go see his friends, he wants to play sports, you know, he wants to date girls.
He's always been forgetful, always had trouble sticking with a schedule or a routine or remembering to do his chores. And all of that has gotten disastrously worse.
I think another challenge with teenagers, and I know it was very challenging for myself, was friendships and relationships. The compulsion to hyper-focus on one friend and then suddenly you've lost interest and you've moved on to this other friend and or even just forgetting to call someone back, forgetting a birthday, forgetting their name. I mean, it's endless and it's something that you just have to be really open about.
And so, yeah, just kind of allowing him to do different things, but also trying to keep him on track has been difficult.
The last week or so I've been talking with my closest friend about this and how hard it is to see my once happy, adorable, little playful kid who's now just kind of sullen, keeps himself kind of holed off in his room or whatever. in front of a TV or a phone because he needs the dopamine that makes him feel comfortable and calm and that he doesn't want to be around his family very much. So that's hard. You know, for me, I feel like I'm not at all the parent I thought I would be able to be. I feel a lot like I'm failing. And a lot of times I just let him, you know, go hang out on his own in front of his screens because I need a break too. And sometimes for me, the best parenting strategy I can have is to, you know, take some space from him.
And that's been really sad for me.
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