Elizabeth Broadbent

Go beyond traditional photo ops to capture unplanned exchanges and laugh-so-hard-it-hurts moments for your family album.

A stocking stuffed with candy canes and chocolate does no one any good. Wrap up these fidgets, games, and activities instead and you’ve just reinvented your child’s entire holiday break.

Make Every Moment Count

“When I confessed that I was scared I’d be the weird kid, they cracked up. ‘No, you’re not the weird kid,’ they all told me. ‘I’m the weird kid.’ One swore that he spent his childhood wearing a cape. Another said he used to carry a dictionary around for reading — and personal protection.”

“My teacher is so mean. She doesn’t like me.” If your child has ADHD, you know that “mean teachers” are rarely cruel on purpose. But sometimes their lack of knowledge and training on ADHD means that they have expectations — and comments — that are wholly inappropriate and/or unhelpful for our kids. Here are the 9 that I remember most clearly.

A mom remembers her own ADHD challenges as she grew up, and she hopes and prays her son can overcome them.

You’ll have a month of boredom, then two weeks of catastrophic disruption, and on the cycle goes. Welcome to parenthood.

“TV will rot her brain!” “You let him eat french fries?!?” “Raising kids is a piece of cake, right?” Parenting myths are everywhere, and they’re insidious for parents raising kids with ADHD, who often feel judged for their kids’ behavior already. Let go of these harmful untruths that ignore your child’s (and your) wants and needs.

My husband and I are done with babies

I can pinpoint when it happened. I was driving one-handed up the interstate frontage road, kids yelling in the backseat, frantically explaining to my sister we weren’t coming to her wedding. We had two small children, one 11 months old and exclusively breastfed. Her wedding would require driving an hour and a half, boarding a plane, boarding another plane, renting a car, then driving 4 hours from Boston to the tip of Cape Cod. Reserved hotel rooms ran $200 a night, and my husband was a univers…

At 9 or 10, parental approval becomes less important, and kids care more about peers’ opinions. But there’s a way to “cool-proof” your kid.

This list might be the best thing we’ve ever read.

I’m not your average mom.

Disliking a friend’s kid seems disloyal and wrong. But it’s still okay. You don’t have to love them. You just have to deal with them.

Woebot, an AI chatbot therapy app, was not compatible with my ADHD brain and its emotional dysregulation or executive dysfunction.

My sons can hear me unscrew a bottle of nail polish from across the house. All three of them, ages six, four, and two, come at a run. They barge into the bathroom, sucking up all the breathing space with their energetic boyness. “Paint my nails!” they howl. “Do my toes, too!” RELATED: Mom With A Baby On A Leash In Public Praised — ’10000% Better Than Parents Who Let Their Kids Do Whatever They Want’ “When I’m done with my own,” I say patiently. They hover with a hulking presence despite their s…

Every group of women has a mean girl. We’re not talking about her as “aggressive” or as “powerful” either, so step on back the feminist retort. We’re talking full-out, balls-to-the-wall, Heathers-style mean girl , and there’s one in every pack. Mom groups are no exception. In fact, between postpartum hormones, pregnancy hormones, kid battles, and all the righteousness of the “Mommy Wars”, mom groups have more than their fair share of meanies. Since you spend so much time at playdates and carpool…

Part-memoir, part-advice, <em>The Fog Lifted</em> explores the challenges and triumphs of a nurse with ADHD.

ADDitude reviews an invaluable tool for helping kids with ADHD manage strong feelings.

I’d spent so long thinking about kids, doing activities with kids, and bonding over kids that I couldn’t remember who I was before them.