Coaching Kids vs. Coaching Parents

What I Learned About Control

Part 3 of "Reconstructing Home: When ADHD Parenting Becomes an Act of Faith"

A mother sat across from me, exhausted. Her 12-year-old son had just been diagnosed with ADHD, and she'd brought him to me hoping I could "fix" him. He was forgetting homework, losing assignments, melting down when asked to clean his room. She'd tried reward charts, consequences…