Ask Dr. Svec

• Exercise for ADHD-5 Root Canals a Week
  2012-05-07
  
  

  I had just completed my 45-minutes of punishment on the treadmill when my wife asked me how my workout was going. “About like a root canal, full of pain, but unlike a dental procedure where the pain is focused on your mouth, I pretty much hurt all over. “ I had to do my resistance training next, so it was like a double tooth procedure. I love the benefits that I get AFTER I finish exercising, including improved brain health, more energy, more focus, and likely better physical conditioning. But getting through the actual workout is a pain. Here are some ways I have managed to continue the routine since 1995.

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• Distracted Focus: A New ADHD Strategy
  2012-04-30
  
  

  If you watch a successful professional or business owner diagnosed with ADHD for a while, you may think they are just jumping from task to task, idea to idea. It can be hard to follow. One minute they are working on this project, the next minute something else. They appear to you, to be distracted and unfocused.

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Dr. Svec’s Health and Wealth Newsletter

• Change this Newsletter?
  2011-08-22

  After my last discussion on “umbrella parenting” and judging by some of the emails I received, many of you had questions, comments, and suggestions of what I can do with my ideas. Some time ago, my article on Tiger Woods likely garnered the majority of negative emails in my career when I suggested that we should not be surprised by his womanizing, because he was “just” a golfer, and after all golfers are not real athletes anyway, and being good or great at one thing does not mean you will necessarily be a great father or husband. If you are wondering, I still feel the same way, and unfortunately bad “karma” has put a bit of a stall on his golfing career as predicted. When you do bad things to good people “karma” or whatever works for you, likely evens things out.

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• Are You an Umbrella Parent?
  2011-08-11

  The radio announcer could not stop talking about something you have likely heard and witnessed many times. A child in public was having a hissy fit, assaulting adults because they did not get their own way. In this case, the story was of an 8-year old girl, pepper sprayed by police because she refused to settle down when they asked. You have likely witnessed many situations such as this where children are used to getting their own way ALL the time, and therefore, unable to handle the realities of being told “no” or stop. I call the parenting strategy that is nurturing this generation of “entitled” children, Umbrella Parents. Umbrella parenting has as its goal the sole purpose of protecting a child from the realities-failures of life. Not even rain should fall on their pristine styled hair. Here are some characteristics of this parenting style. Is this you?

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