Tracy welcomes you to Episode #125 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, where she invites ADHD non-believers to join her for a little education. She receives requests for this podcast every week, so she decided to do something about it.

Tracy shares why the authoritarian model of parenting doesn’t work with an ADHD child, Nora Volkow’s research about ADHD and interest, what the NIH, AMA, U.S. Surgeon General, American Association of Psychiatry, and the U.S. Department of Education all say about ADHD, whether or not there’s ADHD in France, if it’s true that ADHD is strictly an American phenomenon, what it means that more kids are getting diagnosed with ADHD, what happens when ADHD is not treated, if it’s true that everyone has a little ADHD, if ADHD is an invention of modern society, if video games, social media, and smartphones are making people more ADHD, whether or not medicating kids for ADHD turns them into addicts, why willpower, consequences, discipline, and punishment are the wrong formula for the ADHD brain, what happens to children when they’re told that they’re lazy, unmotivated, and need to work harder, what works to motivate ADHD children, and the one question you should ask yourself about your ADHD child.
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Resources:

Dr. Nora Volkow's regarding the Dopamine Reward Pathway in ADHD
Dr. Ross Greene: Kids Do Well If They Can
ADHD Child vs. Non-ADHD Child Interview
Father to Father: Robert Dendy
Putting the efficacy of psychiatric and general medicine medication into perspective: review of meta-analyses
ADHD: Types, Symptoms, and Treatment Options
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
adhdrollercoaster.org
https://alcohol.org/
https://ourworldindata.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/
Sir Ken Robinson’s Ted Talk on Gillian Lynne who had to move to think. Here’s the excerpt: Sir Ken Robinson tells the story of Gillian Lynne Here’s the full TedTalk: Do schools kill creativity?
Erin Ez shared this link that gives you a real world snapshot of how your child feels struggling with attention and learning challenges: Through your child’s eyes

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EP. 125: ADHD and How to Respond to the Non-Believers

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka