ADHD - Ten Essential Tips For Management of Children With ADHD

Tip 1.
Use More Immediate Consequences.

Give children with ADHD immediate rewards for good behaviour.
Tip 2. Praise children as often as possible whenever you catch them behaving correctly.
This should state exactly what the child did that was positive.

For example, "I like the way you completed those two maths problems.

" Tip 3.

Use a reward system rather than a punishment system.

Initially tangible rewards like tokens, points, or chip systems may need to be used.

Regardless of the nature of the feedback, the more immediately it can be provided, the more effective it is.

Tip 4.

Have Greater Frequency of Consequences.

Rewards need to be more frequent than for other children. The important point is to act quickly and frequently in giving feedback to children with ADHD.

Tip 5.
Use More Powerful Consequences Children with ADHD need to have larger, more powerful rewards. Consequences need to be something they love or something they hate.
Privileges they might love could be special snacks or treats, small toys and even sometimes money.
Consequences they might hate could be losing some television time or losing some monitory gain. Tip 6.
Use Rewards rather than Punishments.
Parents must offer positive rewards before punishment when implementing a behaviour-change program. This rule simply means reward the positive e.
g.
if a child is frequently out of the seat, reward the child when in the seat.

Tip 7.
Strive for Consistency.

Consistency is essential to the effective management of children with an attention deficit.
Consistency means three important things.
First, parents need to be consistent over time.

This means that the way they react to a behaviour they are striving to change today is how they should seek to react to it each time it occurs.

Second, consistency also means to respond in the same fashion regardless of place or settings. Parents of children with ADHD frequently respond to behaviours one way at home but an entirely different way in public places. The child with ADHD needs to know that the rules and consequences expected to occur at home will also apply, whenever possible, away from home.

And, third, consistency means that each parent should strive to manage behaviour in as similar a fashion as possible to the other parent.

It should not be the case that one parent punishes a child with ADHD for a certain act of misconduct, while the other overlooks the behaviour accepting it as being OK.

Tip 8.

Have a System for Dealing with Problem Situations.

Usually some situations can present more problems than usual; one of these could be going shopping.

a).
Stop just before beginning the problem situation.
b).

Discuss two or three rules that the child often has trouble following in that situation; then ask the child to repeat these simple rules back.
For instance, they can be rules like "Stand close, don't touch, and don't beg.
" c).
Discuss with the child what rewards they may be able to earn if they obey the rules and behave well. Once these steps have been followed, the parent and child may enter the problem situation, and the parent immediately begins to give the child frequent feedback and occasional rewards or tokens for good behaviour.

Tip 9. Remain calm and emotionally uninvolved.
Above all, parents/teachers should not take personally the problem they are having with the child. They should try to remain emotionally detached.
This is the most important but often the most difficult to implement.

Tip 10.
Parents/teachers need to allow themselves nurturing and relaxing time When parents and teachers feel relaxed they are more likely to be patient and successful in implementing the above.

In conclusion following these 10 tips will greatly diminish the difficulties experienced by parents and professionals in the management of Children with ADHD. Most importantly home and class room will be much calmer and more peaceful.