Validation

One of the 10 Most Popular Articles of the Month of May at Additude is about the difficulties you’re faced with being the parent of an ADHD child.  Our children are funny, smart, amazing, uninhibited, loving and loved.  They are also exhausting!  My neighbor has a 4-year old that is very much like my youngest son.  On the go all the time, gets very upset if I interupt whatever he was actually focused on at the time.  After a very trying day she asked me, “How do you do it?”.  The validation felt good…but, “You just do.  You watch them and wish you could bottle all of that energy.”

We love our children & don’t want to change who they are as an individual…its part of what makes them so special.  A little quiet time is nice, though.

Please read Reasons Your A Great Mom.  It’s not just for moms but for anyone in a parenting roll in an ADDer’s life.  In the comments section, it’s mentioned that the best part is when your child thanks you for helping them.  Getting a ‘Thank you’ doesn’t always happen when your child is young.  My oldest recently reached adulthood and told me that he’d been thinking about it and that he wanted to thank me for all that I’d done to help him be himself — ADHD and all.

If you haven’t received a thank you from your child yet…it’ll come.  I just wanted to say thank you, the world will be an even more amazing, wonderful place when our children are grown because of all you’ve done to cherish and help your child to be themselves!  It’s exhausting, but also a joy!