Dr. Svec’s ADHD Newsletter

• Living with ADHD
  2010-01-28
  
  

  You may have been reading or listening to my podcast “Winning with ADHD”, a newsletter and audio production that I have been providing for the past year. What I have noticed in reading the public comments on our website www.trackadhd.com are the challenges provided by living with ADHD. In this newsletter, I want to delve further into the condition, and provide you with strategies to help you improve your quality of life when faced with these challenges. In this first edition, I want to touch on some general strategies for children that should be modified, but used throughout their life.

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• ADHD and the Holidays
  2010-01-28
  
  

  This time of the year, as children take time off from school, you may be finding that routines, and the general “order” of doing things at your house, are changing. Keeping a healthy routine is a vital part of winning with ADHD. You may also find yourself floundering with the lack of structure during vacation. Here are some tips to help you get through this holiday season.

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Dr. Svec’s Health and Wealth Newsletter

• Building a Positive Attitude to Better Mental Health
  2010-02-08

  You likely know that daily exercise will help keep your body fit and fight off sickness and disease. Most recently, we also learned that by doing daily mental exercises such as Sudoku, you can maintain or even increase your memory and thinking skills. But what strategies can you use to improve and protect your mental health daily?

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• Disciplining Children and Adolescents - Have Parents Lost the Skill? (Part 1)
  2010-02-02

  A generation or two ago when your parents asked you to do something, you usually did it without discussion. Taking out the garbage, cleaning your room, being in on time, getting that part-time job were some of the many requests by a parent that weren’t challenged by children. Discipline is defined as: Develop (children's) behaviour by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children". The belief is that parents have a duty and obligation to help their children understand that they need to listen to adults, follow instructions and orders, under most circumstances.

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