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Focus, starting, and ADHD

Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.

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Theme · Treatment and medication
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When · After a row
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This explains how treatments work. Never start, stop or change a medication because of something you read here.

When a child with ADHD and a parent get stuck in daily rows, the rows themselves start doing damage. Getting the ADHD properly managed early takes some heat out of those exchanges before defiance settles in as a habit.

The chain people worry about runs from constant friction at home to entrenched defiance, and from there to difficulties in the teenage years that are…

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