REMEDY ADHD - Change Your Diet For ADHD & ADD

When your teen is suffering from ADHD as well as having to also deal with physical and emotional changes, learning more about their symptoms and about ADHD can be beneficial.  Teenagers through self ADHD study will learn what things are in their control and more importantly they will also learn what they CAN control.

Teenagers need to understand not only about how ADHD effects their learning and social interactions but how to take hold of the reins and help themselves.

This can be accomplished by openly discussing their learning difficulties with their teachers and in some cases requesting additional help to meet their changing needs.

For most teenagers, this is the prime time for experimentation and rule breaking and the perfect opportunity for parents to discuss the importance of making wise choices and to take responsiblity for their actions.

If adolescents are taking prescribed medications for their ADHD symptoms, they will find that once they graduate from high school and move out of home, they will be more likely to be in control of their own medication, and they need to understand the importance of not abusing their prescription medication.

Young teenage adults who are armed with increased awareness of their disorder and a true appreciation of their own limitations have a better chance of success in today's world.

Adolescence can be difficult enough for any young person without the complications of ADHD as they begin to shift away from their parents to rely more on their peers, on popular culture and also themselves as they begin to shape their own destiny. 

Imagine how much more stressful adolescence is for teenagers who are already struggling with hperactivity, impulsiveness, inattention, low self-esteem and poor social skills?

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Teens and their image

All teenagers want to have a sense of self and the ability to make friends easily and be popular.  ADHD can become a problem for them when they have no friends or appeared weird.  Some students would become upset if their ADHD was used as an excuse to single them out in front of others.  This can often lead to violent outbursts of aggression and frustration - often followed by real remorse after losing control.

Adolescent students want to do well in school and be liked by both teachers and other students, but sometimes they fell that the demands on them far outstrip their capacity to deal with those demands.

Most teenagers with ADHD feel guilty about their behaviour and the problems it causes for their family.  This can make them very protective of their parents and siblings, wich can lead to violent outbursts. 

Most children with ADHD don't fail because they don't understand schoolwork; they fail because schools don't understand how they work!

Social and environmental influences are powerful at all times, and can become a barrier if they encourage a young person to set aside or give up on learning the skills they need in order to function in adult society.

8 Golden Rules for 'surviving' the teenage years:-

1) Try to understand the adolescent development and the impact ADHD has on it.
2) Develop a coping attitue and reasonable expectations
3) Establish easy to understand house and street rules
4) Monitor and enforce house and street rules, with parents working together as a team
5) Communicate positively and effectively
6) Problem solve any disagreements mutually
7) Seek professional help when needed
8) Most importantly: Maintain your sense of humour and regularly take breaks from your teenager

Experience has taught us that ADHD/ADD brings about special concerns when dealing with problem solving. 

Here is a four step method that parents can use with great success in problem solving.

1) Adolescents can have problems paying close attention during a discussion.  Keep your comments brief and to the point, and bring the teen into the discussion whenever possible, while talking in an animated and enthusiastic manner with a constructive or positive tone.  If they are taking medication, have the discussion while the medication is active.

2) Young teens between the age of 12 - 14 are not always going to fully understand the problem solving discussion, or may be to emotionally ready to assume responsibility for coming up with alternative options and negotiating solutions.  Alternatively you can draw up your own behavioural contract or chart and then discuss this with the young teen.  

3) If one or both parents also suffers from ADHD, then be mindful that any discussion with your teenager may become volatile.  In this case, bringing in professional help or a third person may be beneficial.

4) An adolescent with ADHD can be so impulsive and distractible that you may find yourself correcting everything that they do or say.  This can create a negative pattern with your teen being unresponsive and by learning to pick your battles wisely by choosing which problem to take a stand on and which to ignore.  

It can be a challenge to see the humour in all of this, but if you try, you will get through your child's adolescence years much easier.  Try and organise away time for both yourself and your teen.  Use camps, teen travel, grandparents or even friends - whatever it takes - to have a well earned break from each other.  

These breaks will ultimately help parents recharge and take a fresher look at their ADHD/ADD teen.

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For many adolescence this is a time of intensive growth and development.  They now enter a world that is very complex and as their body changes, their academic world shifts, they begin a healthy and sometimes negative process of separating from family. 

For the teen with ADHD/ADD, there can often times be a conflict between needing help from adults and wanting to be independent.

This is also a challenging time for parents too as their ADHD child who was once willing to participate in a simple rewards program, now laughs at the suggestion of earning stars.  It can sometimes be difficult to remember how much you love this rebellious being!

But you do not have to go through this process alone.

Here is Six Steps to Powerful Communication with your child.  (remember that help is always available for both parents and teens)