ADHD-Don’t Let Them Quit

One of the most important skills to teach an ADHD child is resilience. One of the quickest ways to sabotage your efforts is to let them quit easily. This covers everything from guitar lessons to Little League. ADHDers can learn pretty much anything, if they put their minds to it, but few new things will come easily. They will require effort and frustration tolerance. Your child will never develop these skills if allowed to quit at the first sign of difficulties. Therefore you have to have a contract with your child that if he or she signs up for an activity, they have to complete the season or the lesson schedule. Next season or next course of instruction, they can decide if they want to do it again. In this episode, I’ll discuss resilience in more detail and emphasize how important it is to an ADHD child.