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HOW NOT TO DAMAGE YOUR ADHD ADOLESCENT Instead Coach them Through their Turbulent Teens to Win at Life
Sarah Templeton is passionate about ADHD teenagers. And that includes yours!
She met far too many ADHD adolescents in Young Offender Institutes when she was a Prison Counsellor, and, without exception, none of them had had strong parental support. A lot of them had had no support whatsoever, and certainly nobody understanding their ADHD brain. So for mostly very silly, minor misdemeanours they had ended up behind bars.
Sarah then went into private practice counselling ADHD teenagers, all of whom she bonded with instantly. For one very simple reason. She had the same brain as them – she ‘got’ them.
What Sarah wants more than anything in this book is to help you understand your own ADHD teenager’s brain. How it works, how it thinks, how it’s different to other peoples’ brains and how to ensure your ADHD adolescent gets the very best start in life.
Her goal is to help YOU to understand them so THEY have a hassle-free puberty and you don’t have a breakdown trying to make that happen!
If you don’t understand an ADHD brain, it’s very easy to damage a teenager’s self-esteem and feelings of self-worth. It is this damage that Sarah wants to limit.
Sarah will explain in detail the ADHD traits your ADHD teen is dealing with and take you through all the situations you are likely to find yourself in and explain how best to manage them.
“Since using the strategies Sarah suggests our home life has been completely transformed”
She cares deeply about every ADHD teenager and their future and she will do her very best to make sure they get the right understanding and support from the word go.
Testimonials
Our 14 year old son received a diagnosis of ADHD 3 weeks ago. I wanted to understand ADHD and help him, but alongside emotional outbursts, meltdowns and the unpredictability, the internet became a very confusing place, with too many “bits of advice” but no-one to hold my hand and walk me through his condition and how I could help him.
This book was the answer!
Short chapters organised in a sensible way and written without jargon, this book made his ADHD diagnosis feel manageable and that there was light. Each chapter explains a different ADHD trait and so I could get straight on with helping my son.
I’ve already bought copies for my family so we all have the same understanding. I can’t praise it highly enough.
Sarah REALLY gets kids/teens with ADHD. When I read her book, it was as though she was describing my son. I have found this and all her other books so helpful.
Her style of writing is not the stuffy, formal manner of other ADHD books (she tells it as it is in plain language. The information is really accessible and down-to-earth, she demystifies what’s going on for ADHD teen, what they’re going through, why they act and react as they do and what we parents can do to help them and ourselves in the hope of restoring some measure of peace to our lives.
I wish I’d read this book many years ago. I thought I knew about ADHD but this took my understanding to another level and has helped me to be more patient with my teenage.
I now don’t take things personally, the chapter on emotional regulation was ground breaking for me as I couldn’t understand how my child could be happy one minute and angry the next just out of nowhere.
I’ve have a turbulent relationship with my father and now I believe that after reading this book he also has ADHD!!!
Thank you, this is more than a book this has changed the way I parent my child and has made our relationship so much better.
The author is extremely knowledgeable about ADHD and writes in a very accessible way. My spouse and my teenager both have ADHD and I’m a SEND practitioner so I would thoroughly recommend this as essential reading for anyone who lives with someone with ADHD, for wider family, youth workers, social workers, teachers and anyone else who works with children and young people.
You need this book!! Best book by far to understand your adhd teen!!
This book could have been written for us right now with my daughter and helping us to navigate and understand her need for dopamine hits which can involve putting herself in danger and how best to navigate this!!
Also to understand her extreme rejection sensitive dysphoria – there’s a fact in the book something like an adhd child has had 40,000 negative comments by the time they are ten! Imagine the damage to them and how we need to try and build them back up! I’m determined to help her the best way I can!
I listened to the book on Spotify but will be buying a hard copy of the book too to refer back to. I love how the chapters are short, sharp and to the point so the information is clear!
I feel so much better informed about my teen and where I was starting to feel lost I definitely feel more confident and knowledgeable to do my best moving forwards! Thank you! Hoping for some sort of teen info next to help my daughter better understand her adhd and see it more positively than she does now!
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