Maintaining composure in the face of parenting a child with ADHD

ADHD is unpredictable

The most difficult part of parenting a child with ADHD, for me, is the unpredictability. My son might be calm as a cucumber one day and then blazing his trail like he literally has a colony of fire ants in his pants the very next. This lack of predictability makes it most difficult to parent consistently and calmly, the two pillars of parenting a child with ADHD.

It’s difficult to plan without predictability. Take our trip to the grocery store yesterday for example. For at...