ADHD or Active Child?
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ADHD or Active Child?
Here to bring peace to the hectic life of moms with active kids or active daydreamers
Recent Episodes
24 episodes
Planning a Long Journey with Your Active Child
Planning a Long Journey with Your Active Child As summer beckons, most people with be looking forward to taking a vacation and enjoying some well-earn...
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School System pushes ADHD Label
How the School System is Labeling Children with ADHD The number of American school children who are diagnosed with ADHD is increasing every year at a...
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Working With Families Episode 16
After the first month of an ongoing tele-seminar where Dr. Guffanti answers your questions we are seeing the translation from theory to application. T...
Passion’s Purpose Part 3: Passion’s Pitfalls Episode 15
Your children’s passion will unfold their destiny if you avoid the three pitfalls and learn to support. The 3 pitfalls to avoid are: don’t feed an add...
Passion’s Purpose Part 2: Preparing Your Child to Thrive Episode 14
In a country where only one out of three children can read their textbooks, where anxiety, depression and suicide are consuming more and more of our t...
Passion’s Purpose Part 1 Episode 13
Did you ever wish for an operator’s manual on raising your children? Sorry, its not available, but learning to feed your passion and your child’s pass...
Girls and the ADHD Label Part 3 Episode 12
Some girls have a passion for their friends and risk losing their identity to please others. Developing firm internal boundaries is your best defense...
Girls and the ADHD Label – Episode 11
Dr. Martin Stein, a pediatrician at UCSD, notes that girls are likely to be diagnosed with ADD later than boys, some as early as third or fourth grade...
Girls: The Pressures and the Protections
In an effort to help the ADHD parents I have posted a survey. This podcast is the answer to some of the questions posted there. Moms want help with th...
ADHD Fathers and their Family – Episode 9
Father’s Day Special – Getting Dad involved in the family In an effort to help the ADHD parents Dr. Guffanti has posted a survey. This podcast is the...
Motivating the Oppositional Child Part 2 Episode 8
The essential ingredient for those children who often blame others for their misbehavior is for the parents to decide “Whose problem is it?” When par...
No Matter What The Label – Now What?
Labels often confuse rather than clarify. This video gives you the opportunity to take a practical step into working with your child’s strengths and c...
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Motivating the Oppositional Child – Episode 7
But today we learned that the low auditory (half of the children labeled ADHD) often blame others for their misbehaviors, partly because they don’t kn...
ADHD And Relationships – Episode 6
One of the issues that keep parents up at night is their child’s relationships. Will they make friends and keep them? How do I get my child to coopera...
Balancing Your Active Child’s Energy – Episode 5
In this episode Dr. Guffanti Reviews our two kinds of energy: focused and momentum-building Three ways to create focused energy Telling the difference...
ADHD & Public School Frustrations
“Feeling very frustrated with the whole school/daughter (8 yrs old) thing. My Olivia is a free spirit with tons of energy. She’s spunky, artistic, and...
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Keeping Your ADHD Child Alive – Episode 4
In this episode Dr. Guffanti discusses keeping your child alive until they develop wisdom. We will view impulsivity and hyperactivity through differen...
The pressure schools place on parents to medicate
My oldest child (now 17) was diagnosed ADD, she is inattentive only. We tried behavior therapy for a while, to see if it would help her in school. We...
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Episode 3: How active kids learn
In this episode Dr. Guffanti discusses the consequences of assuming that everyone learns the same way you do. When people who learn by watching or dis...
Episode 2: ADHD and learning styles
Episode 2: Children are driven by curiosity. This drive makes learning style (How people prefer to learn) a prime motivator of behavior. Suppose ADHD...
Daydreamer Son Hates School Need Help
My son has been struggling in school for 4 years now. He has had trouble since Kindergarten and is now in third grade. He absolutely hates school. ...
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3 Reasons for the Rise in ADHD
1. In 1990, SSI pays for each child labeled ADHD and taking medication– by 2009 ADHD is 31% of SSI. ($700 a month per child) 2. In 1991, a Policy Clar...
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ADHD or Active Child Episode 1: What’s ADHD
In this episode we will discuss ADHD with Dr. Guffanti, an international speaker on ADHD, who not only has ADHD, but has its most common associated pr...
Parenting the ADHD Labeled Child
My Charley Has ADHD Lessons Learned (Click here for Pat Wyman’s Super Speller Strategy video) This video demonstrates many of the common issues about...
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