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Written by Pamela Palmer
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Design the daily life of your child with activities that work for ADHD children! According to one Hockey Coach: "High-energy kids with low-attention spans work best with fast-paced sports like football, basketball, or hockey." Games like football have less down-time than baseball, so an active, distractable child automatically keeps more engaged.
Try Individual Sports
If your child is not interested in team sports, try Martial Arts or Gymnastics. These kinds of sports are individualized and highly-structured, so that an ADHD child can achieve at his own pace. "Kids need structure, and children with attention deficit need even more" states Peter Jaksa, PhD, clinical director of ADD Centers of America. A goal-oriented program like Karate has incentives built-in for an active child to stay focused as he achieves measurable goals.
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Written by Byron J Richards
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A study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs paints a picture of children who can't stop eating. They are addicted to junk food snacks and they just can't seem to stop. They are getting larger and hungrier by the minute. They have three extra meals per day in the form of snacks, composed primarily of utter junk food and junk beverages. The study is just now being picked up by the national media, although I first reported on it last month when it was also published in the Journal of Nutrition.
Michelle Obama jumped on the new report while speaking to the School Nutrition Association conference in Washington on Monday, placing the blame on parents, educators and policymakers. "Our kids didn't do this to themselves," Obama said. "From fast food, to vending machines packed with chips and candy, to a la carte lines, we tempt our kids with all kinds of unhealthy choices every day."
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Written by Dr. Noel Swanson
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There are some children who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The symptoms exhibited by these children are:
1) Poor concentration and attention span 2) Poor memory 3) Impulsiveness - the trait of doing things without thinking first 4) Easily frustrated - because of poor concentration and memory when they cannot remember things, they get frustrated. This causes behavioral patterns like temper tantrums and outbursts
Of course all children (and adults) show difficulties such as these at various times. For the child with ADHD, however, these difficulties are so great that they have experienced failures in various areas such as
a) at school (they are not able to pay attention or finish their work in time or they can be disruptive and destructive in class, may be talking excessively in the class )
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