Recent Podcasts
#85: How to use Effective Negative Consequences: Part 3
In today’s podcast, ADHD Parenting Coach Siope Kinikini continues to share with parents the limitations of consequences and what they can do instead.
#84: How to use Effective Negative Consequences: Part 2
In today’s podcast, ADHD Parenting Coach Siope Kinikini shares with parents the limitations of consequences and what they can do instead.
#83: How to use Effective Negative Consequences: Part 1
There is a difference between consequences and punishments. Learn how to use consequences effectively with your child to help them make better choices.
#82: Reduce frustration with Preventive Teaching: Part 3
In part three of our Preventive Teaching journey, Siope Kinikini teaches parents to use time and energy wisely instead of spending it addressing problems.
#81: Reduce frustration with Preventive Teaching: Part 2
When parents have skills and tools, they can be proactive instead of reactive. Preventive Teaching helps families prevent problems before they arise.
#80: Reducing frustration with Preventive Teaching: Part 1
When parents have skills and tools, they can be proactive instead of reactive. Preventive Teaching helps families prevent problems before they arise.
#79: Learning new behavior through continued practice
Let us guide you on how to make Role-playing effective for your family. Sign up for a free ADHD Parenting Coaching session!
#78: Creating a growth mindset in kids using Praise Approximations
Creating a growth mindset helps kids understand expectations while allowing them to not be perfect. Effective Praise shows a child what they are doing well.
#77: How I learned to help my ADHD child, with Eric Bjorklund
Eric Bjorklund talks about how Smarter Parenting and the Teaching-Family Model changed his parenting and improved his relationship with his son.
#76: Giving Effective Praise
Giving Effective Praise can be especially helpful during a tantrum as it allows parents to focus on the positive and deescalate the situation.
Recent Articles
Helping kids stay on task
Helping kids stay on task comes in a lot of different forms and for different reasons, which affects what tools you use. Each child is different too in their ability to stay on task. The ability to pay attention depends on their age as well as what focus time has been...
Helping kids understand COVID-19
Talking about COVID-19 can make kids feel safe. Use these techniques to help make difficult conversations better.
The difference between consequences and punishments
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Getting ADHD child to follow instructions
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Changing ADHD expectations for kids
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Dealing with ADHD defiance
If you’re a parent dealing with ADHD defiance it can be overwhelming and isolating as you feel you are constantly dealing with anger management issues. Defiance is open resistance to rules and instructions. ADHD defiance can be especially difficult as some symptoms of ADHD reinforce defiant behavior. ADHD symptoms that exacerbate defiance include high energy, impulsiveness, forgetfulness, and disorganization. Even with an ADHD diagnosis, it’s essential to remember why children act out. […]
The parenting advice you really need: 5 things to teach your kids
The parenting advice you really need: 5 things to teach your kids
The world is full of parenting advice: potty training tips, how to be a happier mom, life hacks that will rock your world, 572 ways you are ruining your child’s life…and so much more.
Many of these ideas are good, but in the age of information overload, sometimes it just becomes too much. Parents read one “good” idea after another and become overwhelmed trying to implement all of them. […]