Name
The Parenting Paradox: Why Helping Keeps Kids Stuck
Description
Millions of parents of children with ADHD are trapped in a cycle they cannot see from the inside. Their child won't start tasks or function independently, so the parent steps in — prompting, reminding, repeating. What most parents don't know is that the ADHD brain is stimulus-seeking, and a parent's urgency and frustration is neurologically interesting to it. The result is prompt-dependence: the child's brain learns to wait for external activation rather than generate its own. This session gives parents and professionals a name for what's happening, the neuroscience behind it, and one concrete language shift they can use immediately to begin reversing it.
Michael McLeod
Track
Parents & Caregivers
Date & Time
Friday, December 4, 2026, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM