Parents with ADHD Parenting children with ADHD

Tips and Tricks that could help reduce the daily stress

Menu Board

  1. As simple or creative up to you and your family

  2. Use cards / paddle pop sticks to write down everyone’s favourite dinner/s

  3. Each family member gets to choose 1 meal a week

  4. Make or buy a daily planner or box that has 7 compartments

  5. Allocate everyone’s choice to a day

For more ideas visit https://www.additudemag.com/happy-meals-happier-kids/

Food and ADHD

  • Protein rich foods help with blood sugar spikes and may help with emotional regulation and hyperactivity.

  • Omega 3 fatty acids (Fish Oil) helps with concentration, hyperactivity and impulsivity

  • Iron, Zinc and Magnesium play an important role in helping ADHD symptoms

  • Reducing artificial additives in food - unprocessed, fresh food is best

  • Food sensitives can worsen ADHD symptoms

  • Naturopathic medicine may help - study showed a combination of valerian and lemon balm help relax hyperactive or anxious children

For more information visit https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-diet-for-kids-food-fix/

10 Supplements and Vitamins for ADHD Symptom Control
https://www.additudemag.com/vitamins-minerals-adhd-treatment-plan/


Mindfulness benefits the whole family

Breathe in for 7 seconds and out for 11 seconds. After 12 - 15 repetitions the breath should settle into 4 seconds in and 6 seconds out which helps maintain focus.

Breath Button - associate any object around the house when touched the family member must take a big breath to help calm.

Play ‘I notice’ - any objects different colours, shapes, textures

Digging in the Garden

Pause app (Pause - mobile application of meditation & relaxation - Pause-App.org)

Chill panda app (Chill Panda: Calm Play Today - Apps on Google Play)

Hot Chocolate Breath: This technique starts with your child holding up her hands as if she were holding a mug of hot chocolate right under her face. Prompt some basic visualization, and ask her to imagine first smelling the hot chocolate — inhaling deeply through her nose and then blowing it to cool it down, exhaling smoothly across the surface out her mouth. Have her repeat this breathing pattern and visualization — in through her nose smelling, and back out through her mouth, cooling off — for a minute or two. Encourage her to let her breath find its own rhythm: not too fast, and not too slow.

For more information visit https://www.additudemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Easy-Mindfulness-Exercises-for-Kids-with-ADHD.pdf

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