Tameka AndersonBehavior Coach | Creator of the THRIVE™ Framework & CALM Method™ at Cultivate Potential Strategies

Parenting ADHD is like… #adhd #parenting #hardwork

13 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief, diarized video excerpt, two speakers share a raw, personal account of the daily challenges of parenting a child with ADHD. Speaker A repeatedly emphasizes the constant struggles: task avoidance, nonstop talking, a demanding child, and the emotional cascade of frustration, embarrassment, and relentless crying that persists through night and into the morning. Speaker B reacts with surprise and notes the intensity of the experience, highlighting the physical reaction of nearly wetting themselves. The exchange captures the exhausting cycle of emotional overwhelm and the feeling of being trapped in a spiraling loop of frustration and exhaustion that must be faced again each day.

I'm parenting ADHD. Of course we deal with task avoidance. I'm parenting ADHD. Of course I have to listen to nonstop talking.
Me were— what I was— I was gonna be surprised that I, I almost had to pee my pants.
I'm parenting ADHD. Of course I have a demanding child.
You doing a lot of crying!
All right! I'm parenting ADHD. Of course I'm frustrated and embarrassed, but too frustrated and embarrassed to tell anyone, so now I'm spiraling in my frustration and embarrassment of it all. I'm parenting ADHD. Of course I've been crying all night, and now it's morning, and I gotta get up and do it all over again.