Resources
Here are my self-help suggestions for creating your 6 Ss: Skills, Support, Systems, Strategies, Structure, and Strengths
Skills
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Four FREE Parenting Webinars - Attend LIVE or get access to ALL recordings with a single registration!
At the core of executive functioning challenges is resistance: Resistance to receiving help, doing the things that would improve the situation, using planners, moving through procrastination to get started on things, reading directions carefully, reorganizing, and the list goes on. In order to HELP a student have tools to work through resistance, relationship is key. But how? Register for this FREE webinar to find out more. Couples often struggle to engage productively with each other, especially when one or both have ADHD. It's not that they don't wish to be happy together, it's just that they're wary because of chronic frustration and anger; under managed ADHD; emotional hurt; and power struggles which contribute to a build up of resentment and resistance. Melissa Orlov and Ari Tuckman talk about the basis of resistance and offer approaches for productively engaging one's partner. In this webinar, Caroline Maguire, M.Ed., PCC will share insight into the mind of your child. Using a new revolutionary tool designed to create an inventory of the child’s peer group, Caroline offers steps to take when helping your ADHD child learn how to understand and predict behaviors. Working to improve self-awareness, you will finally be able to connect the dots between evaluating whether or not their perspective is accurate and how to make any needed adjustments. "Easy things are hard and hard things are easy" for gifted children with ADHD. This webinar allows caregivers and educators to deeply understand the asynchronous development of bright kids with ADHD, what it actually feels like to be “twice exceptional,” and strategies that bring out the best and raise self-confidence in gifted learners identified with ADHD. We'll discuss advocacy tools that help the adults in a twice-exceptional child's life understand and implement effective strategies. |
“Sanity School” Parent Training Course
(Online Behavior Therapy)
Training program for parents of children with ADHD and related challenges offers reality-based strategies for parents (Behavior Therapy). Online classes are affordable, accessible and effective, reinforced with a workbook, weekly emails, an online forum, and group Q & A calls with a coach.
(Online Behavior Therapy)
Training program for parents of children with ADHD and related challenges offers reality-based strategies for parents (Behavior Therapy). Online classes are affordable, accessible and effective, reinforced with a workbook, weekly emails, an online forum, and group Q & A calls with a coach.
Support
Parent’s Guide to Motivation — download (free)
If you want your kids to clean up their rooms, finish their homework, stop talking back, or simply respond well anytime you ask them to do something… this guide is a great place to start.
If you want your kids to clean up their rooms, finish their homework, stop talking back, or simply respond well anytime you ask them to do something… this guide is a great place to start.
Parenting with Impact: Dr. Hallowell’s Keys to Unlocking ADHD
Find peace in parenting when Dr. Hallowell’s most essential wisdom is combined with parent coaching strategies and methods in this 4 part Parent Training video. Workbook included.
Find peace in parenting when Dr. Hallowell’s most essential wisdom is combined with parent coaching strategies and methods in this 4 part Parent Training video. Workbook included.
Journey.Cloud is an online journaling/planner/mental wellness diary. Take advantage of being able to use it on multiple devices with cloud security, use the Coaching tutorials to increase your journaling frequency and effectiveness, and even save social media posts and location data in a secure way. Set goals, track your habits and build a healthier and more fulfilling life.
Systems
Freedom Filer will help you manage your paperwork with a pre-made system.
It is important to understand that they will send you the entire packet, which have too many labels. If you would like to purchase this through my affiliate link and send it to me, I will create the system YOU need to manage YOUR files, then send it to you, for no additional cost.
It is important to understand that they will send you the entire packet, which have too many labels. If you would like to purchase this through my affiliate link and send it to me, I will create the system YOU need to manage YOUR files, then send it to you, for no additional cost.
Strategies
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, PhD
When it comes to change, TINY IS MIGHTY. Start with two pushups a day, not a two-hour workout; or five deep breaths each morning rather than an hour of meditation. In TINY HABITS, B.J. Fogg brings his experience coaching more than 40,000 people to help you lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or achieve any goal of your choice. You just need Fogg’s behavior formula: make it easy, make it fit your life, and make it rewarding. Whenever you get in your car, take one yoga breath. Smile. Whenever you get in bed, turn off your phone. Give yourself a high five.
The simple way to learn how to create powerful habits that support the changes you want to make in your life.
When it comes to change, TINY IS MIGHTY. Start with two pushups a day, not a two-hour workout; or five deep breaths each morning rather than an hour of meditation. In TINY HABITS, B.J. Fogg brings his experience coaching more than 40,000 people to help you lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or achieve any goal of your choice. You just need Fogg’s behavior formula: make it easy, make it fit your life, and make it rewarding. Whenever you get in your car, take one yoga breath. Smile. Whenever you get in bed, turn off your phone. Give yourself a high five.
The simple way to learn how to create powerful habits that support the changes you want to make in your life.
Structure
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The Perfect Notebook is my favorite disc-bound system. This has more than I can use - I don't like how they've laid out the dailies, but I love their dot grid pages and create my own layouts from that by ordering refills. Only problem there is that my month-at-a-glance can't be by my weekly spread. But I am ok with that.
The best part of this, to me, is the discs allow me to add/pull out pages as necessary, so I always have pages for notes, and it's never overstuffed with old information. And I can move pages based on priorities, unlike a bullet journal. |
Strengths
The VIA Character Strengths Survey is the only free, scientific survey of character strengths in the world. Take this simple, 15 minute character test and discover your greatest strengths. Research shows that knowing and using your character strengths can help you:
Other things I really like
I like these figdet toys for two reasons: they are quiet, and they are lightweight, so they can be played with inside or outside of a pocket without bothering anyone else. It's not easy to "accidentally" hit someone with these, even if a kids "yeets" it at someone, and it would take a lot of time to tear these up.
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I really like the Ulla Smart Hydration system to remind me when I need to drink water. It will flash very brightly after it hasn't been moved, or at least tipped, for a certain amount of time.
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When my son was younger, we couldn't figure out why he kept chewing his shirts, pencils, headphone cords - I wish I'd known about ARK THERAPEUTIC's line of chewelry (chewable jewelry) and pencil-toppers. Ark Therapeutic is a US-based manufacturer driven by occupational therapists who put kids' needs first. I know I can trust that the products are safe, and they have different hardness levels for different colors. I was able to put them to the test who prefers to fold them before chewing, and he really liked the brick chewelry that I gave him.
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Tile Bluetooth trackers can save a lot of time and frustration if you or your kids are prone to losing things. There are three main types - the traditional Mate that attaches to key chains, Sticker for most anything else, and Slim for your wallet or passport case.
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