Podcasts by ADHD or Active Child?
Here to bring peace to the hectic life of moms with active kids or active daydreamers
Further podcasts by Stephen Guffanti, MD | ADHD, dyslexic & ODD
Podcast on the topic Kinder und Familie
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Planning a Long Journey with Your Active Child from 2014-05-23T14:36:06
Planning a Long Journey with Your Active Child As summer beckons, most people with be looking forward to taking a vacation and enjoying some well-earned rest, but for families with a very active ch...
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School System pushes ADHD Label from 2014-05-20T13:43:44
How the School System is Labeling Children with ADHD The number of American school children who are diagnosed with ADHD is increasing every year at a rapid rate, leading some medical professionals ...
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Working With Families Episode 16 from 2012-03-02T17:38:36
After the first month of an ongoing tele-seminar where Dr. Guffanti answers your questions we are seeing the translation from theory to application. This podcast discusses how to get your child to ...
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Passion’s Purpose Part 3: Passion’s Pitfalls Episode 15 from 2012-01-08T13:18:25
Your children’s passion will unfold their destiny if you avoid the three pitfalls and learn to support. The 3 pitfalls to avoid are: don’t feed an addiction, empower rather than enable and le...
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Passion’s Purpose Part 2: Preparing Your Child to Thrive Episode 14 from 2011-12-15T15:51:58
In a country where only one out of three children can read their textbooks, where anxiety, depression and suicide are consuming more and more of our teenagers where graduation doesn’t seem to...
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Passion’s Purpose Part 1 Episode 13 from 2011-12-07T20:18:02
Did you ever wish for an operator’s manual on raising your children? Sorry, its not available, but learning to feed your passion and your child’s passion is the next best thing. This po...
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Girls and the ADHD Label Part 3 Episode 12 from 2011-11-12T21:41:19
Some girls have a passion for their friends and risk losing their identity to please others. Developing firm internal boundaries is your best defense against this happening. Basing your boundaries ...
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Girls and the ADHD Label – Episode 11 from 2011-09-11T04:31:03
Dr. Martin Stein, a pediatrician at UCSD, notes that girls are likely to be diagnosed with ADD later than boys, some as early as third or fourth grade, or as late as junior high. Here’s my take on ...
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Girls: The Pressures and the Protections from 2011-07-13T04:33:46
In an effort to help the ADHD parents I have posted a survey. This podcast is the answer to some of the questions posted there. Moms want help with their girls. In this episode you will learn: The ...
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ADHD Fathers and their Family – Episode 9 from 2011-06-19T11:53:25
Father’s Day Special – Getting Dad involved in the family In an effort to help the ADHD parents Dr. Guffanti has posted a survey. This podcast is the answer to some of the questions pos...
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Motivating the Oppositional Child Part 2 Episode 8 from 2011-05-31T11:00:53
The essential ingredient for those children who often blame others for their misbehavior is for the parents to decide “Whose problem is it?” When parents step in and solve problemss for their chil...
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No Matter What The Label – Now What? from 2011-05-26T10:55:48
Labels often confuse rather than clarify. This video gives you the opportunity to take a practical step into working with your child’s strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. Watch it ...
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Motivating the Oppositional Child – Episode 7 from 2011-05-19T02:04:08
But today we learned that the low auditory (half of the children labeled ADHD) often blame others for their misbehaviors, partly because they don’t know how to speak their heart. We learned how to ...
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ADHD And Relationships – Episode 6 from 2011-04-29T13:25:53
One of the issues that keep parents up at night is their child’s relationships. Will they make friends and keep them? How do I get my child to cooperate? Or simply not constantly annoy his br...
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Balancing Your Active Child’s Energy – Episode 5 from 2011-04-21T22:50:24
In this episode Dr. Guffanti Reviews our two kinds of energy: focused and momentum-building Three ways to create focused energy Telling the difference between passion and addiction Why Hands-on Lea...
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ADHD&Public School Frustrations from 2011-04-19T18:56:46
“Feeling very frustrated with the whole school/daughter (8 yrs old) thing. My Olivia is a free spirit with tons of energy. She’s spunky, artistic, and spontaneous, sweet and full of love. Eve...
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Keeping Your ADHD Child Alive – Episode 4 from 2011-04-01T14:26:46
In this episode Dr. Guffanti discusses keeping your child alive until they develop wisdom. We will view impulsivity and hyperactivity through different lenses like: Impulsivity, fast and thorough e...
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The pressure schools place on parents to medicate from 2011-03-20T13:04:40
My oldest child (now 17) was diagnosed ADD, she is inattentive only. We tried behavior therapy for a while, to see if it would help her in school. We reached the point when she came home and told m...
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Episode 3: How active kids learn from 2011-03-18T16:56:13
In this episode Dr. Guffanti discusses the consequences of assuming that everyone learns the same way you do. When people who learn by watching or discussion, like teachers and psychiatrists, perce...
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Episode 2: ADHD and learning styles from 2011-03-04T14:38:51
Episode 2: Children are driven by curiosity. This drive makes learning style (How people prefer to learn) a prime motivator of behavior. Suppose ADHD is simply how people who learn by watching or d...
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Daydreamer Son Hates School Need Help from 2011-03-04T01:31:27
My son has been struggling in school for 4 years now. He has had trouble since Kindergarten and is now in third grade. He absolutely hates school. He has had good teachers that seem concerned ab...
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3 Reasons for the Rise in ADHD from 2011-02-24T12:18:53
1. In 1990, SSI pays for each child labeled ADHD and taking medication– by 2009 ADHD is 31% of SSI. ($700 a month per child) 2. In 1991, a Policy Clarification Memorandum adds ADHD to IDEA. 3...
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ADHD or Active Child Episode 1: What’s ADHD from 2011-02-19T03:32:31
In this episode we will discuss ADHD with Dr. Guffanti, an international speaker on ADHD, who not only has ADHD, but has its most common associated problems – ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) a...
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Parenting the ADHD Labeled Child from 2011-02-18T14:05:45
My Charley Has ADHD Lessons Learned (Click here for Pat Wyman’s Super Speller Strategy video) This video demonstrates many of the common issues about ADHD: Teachers are the most common refer...
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