Reply to need help motivating ADHD teen

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "need help motivating ADHD teen"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]DD is starting 9th this year. She has ADHD but also other learning disabilities (dyslexia and some related issues and things like poor processing and executive function challenges), but she is a heck of an athlete. She went to a really small private but will be going to MCPS this year, and wants to try out for one of the teams. She was really excited about it, but suddenly, her confidence is waning. Today she had a literal meltdown and refused to go to one of the summer practices they were holding. Said she felt like everyone was so much better than her and she couldn't do basic drills correctly, etc. She went to one earlier this week and it went fine; she said most of the kids were older but everyone and the coaches were nice. She acts like this sometimes when she has to go into unfamiliar situations and it's always ok afterwards.

I'm looking for strategies to help her through it, or to encourage her, and to get her to go to practice. DH thinks I should have been more tough love on her and forced her to go (just dropped her off and waved goodbye while she was protesting) but that's not how I roll and I don't think that's right....she's clearly anxious and I think that should be talked through. He's ofc worried this will transfer to other situations, which, it may.....

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics