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May 2021
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EP. 125: ADHD and How to Respond to the ...

TRACY OTSUKA
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Want to fall in love with your ADHD brain and make it work for you? Learn more about my patented program, Your ADHD Brain is A-OK Academy here: programs.tracyotsuka.com/signup

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Tracy welcomes you to Episode #125 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, where she invites ADHD non-believers to join her for a little education. She receives requests for this podcast every week, so she decided to do something about it.

Tracy shares why the authoritarian model of parenting doesn’t work with an ADHD child, Nora Volkow’s research about ADHD and interest, what the NIH, AMA, U.S. Surgeon General, American Association of Psychiatry, and the U.S. Department of Education all say about ADHD, whether or not there’s ADHD in France, if it’s true that ADHD is strictly an American phenomenon, what it means that more kids are getting diagnosed with ADHD, what happens when ADHD is not treated, if it’s true that everyone has a little ADHD, if ADHD is an invention of modern society, if video games, social media, and smartphones are making people more ADHD, whether or not medicating kids for ADHD turns them into addicts, why willpower, consequences, discipline, and punishment are the wrong formula for the ADHD brain, what happens to children when they’re told that they’re lazy, unmotivated, and need to work harder, what works to motivate ADHD children, and the one question you should ask yourself about your ADHD child.
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