Answering Parents' Questions

<p>Hosts Ryan and Mike work through five real listener questions covering some of the most common — and most misunderstood — challenges of raising kids with ADHD: a six-year-old with borderline intellectual functioning caught between a cautious school and a hands-off psychiatrist, a ten-year-old with total time blindness for non-preferred activities, sibling conflict where the hosts openly diverge on whether to hold the older child more accountable or redirect the younger one, a physically aggressive first-grader stuck in a cycle of ineffective next-day suspensions, and a fifteen-year-old with ADHD, anxiety, OCD, and autism who avoids school at the first sign of feeling unwell. The thread running through all five: executive functioning is environment-dependent, and parental accommodation — however loving — tends to make avoidance and anxiety worse rather than better.</p><p><br /></p><p>Find Mike @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://www.grownowadhd.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.grownowadhd.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>⁠⁠⁠⁠ &amp; on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://www.instagram.com/grownowadhd/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IG⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a><br />Find Ryan @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://www.adhddude.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.adhddude.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>⁠ &amp; on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/ADHDDudeRyanWexelblattLCSW" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Youtube⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br /></p><p>{{chapters}}</p><p>[00:00:00] Start</p><p>[00:00:52] Borderline Functioning: School vs. Psychiatrist</p><p>[00:05:16] Time Blindness and Non-Preferred Activities</p><p>[00:09:03] Sibling Conflict and the Dopamine Cycle</p><p>[00:15:15] Aggression, Suspensions, and Brain Breaks</p><p>[00:22:28] Autism, Illness Avoidance, and School Refusal</p>