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Not Yelling At Children is Better Than Yelling At Children, More At 11

I wanted to add that I feel as though the point is not only that refraining from yelling is helpful but that modeling calm problem solving is especially important for ADHD children. It’s not just don’t get loud and nasty but tell your ADHD kid how you are avoiding getting loud and nasty so they can learn that because it’s hard for them.

So while an NT child may start to figure for themselves how to remain calm in a high stress situation at a certain age, a parent narrating how exactly they are calmly handling a problem would have continued added benefit for ADHD children. Like “I am not going to worry until I assess the situation” and “now that I know what is wrong I can come up with a plan to move forward” because we really won’t learn that without hearing it said and other people tend to and that’s just one of the differences.