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New College Grads: 6 Financial Tips

Congratulations! You made it through college successfully! And that’s no small feat with ADHD!

Maybe you are living at home for a while as you look for that first job, or maybe you are trying to “make it” somewhere else. You might be considering grad school,

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All in the Family: ADHD

You know the saying “All in the family.” You’ve heard the saying: “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” 

So, your child has just been diagnosed with ADHD.  Looking back over your life,  you’ve started to wonder whether ADD might explain the challenges you’ve always faced….

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Parenting with Love and Logic

Among the many available guides to parenting, Foster Cline and Jim Fay’s “Parenting with Love and Logic” stands out as providing clear, practical strategies – and examples – for raising responsible children.
Cline, a child psychiatrist, and Fay, an educational consultant,

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The ADHD “Oxygen Mask”

You get on an airplane headed on a journey. Before you settle in for the ride, you are instructed, among other survival tips, that in case of any problems with the flight, parents should put on their
oxygen masks before putting oxygen masks onto their children.

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Enabling vs Empowering

Ever wonder if you are doing too much for your teen or young adult with ADHD?  It can feel tricky to find the balance between support and doing too much!

This short video from Attention Talk Network features Adult ADHD Coach Jeff Copper interviewing Youth ADHD Coach and Coach Trainer Jodi Sleeper-Triplett on the important distinction between “enabling”

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Perfectionism, ADHD and Shame

If you have ADHD, no doubt you have heard all too often that “you don’t try hard enough” or some other such message that has pushed your shame buttons. This can lead some individuals to give up and lead others to strive harder, sometimes getting caught in a perfectionist mentality.

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Cultivating Resilience with ADHD

“Some people can pick themselves up from problems, dust themselves off and move on. But my daughter Julie just doesn’t know how to do that. How can I help her?”
The quality this mother is wanting to help Julie develop is resilience.

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Money Management for Young Adults: 8 Tips

Guest blogger and financial consultant  Dr. Joel Lang ([email protected]) shares eight money management tips for young adults:


1) Develop a relationship with your money
“Your money . . . are you managing it or is it managing you?

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ADHD, Money and Young Adults

Many young adults with ADHD have challenges getting a handle on personal finances.

Learning about finances (addressed in two prior blog posts – 1, 2) is one aspect of this.

As Anthony Rostain, MD, Director of the Adult ADHD Treatment and Research program at the University of Pennsylvania,

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ADHD and Money, Part 2

“I am way behind on bill paying, and I have late fees piling up!”

“Taxes are due and I can’t find my papers!”

Common ADHD symptoms of impulsivity, lack of attention to detail, disorganization, and procrastination can make it hard to stay on top of one’s finances.

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