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Parenting a Child with ADHD

Practical strategies for calmer routines, stronger connection, and confident support at home and school

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18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.3
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Parenting a Child with ADHD Course

Parenting a Child with ADHD is a practical online course for caregivers who want clearer insight, steadier routines, and more confident support for everyday challenges. You will learn how ADHD affects attention, emotions, behavior, schoolwork, and family life while building tools that reduce conflict and strengthen connection.

Build Practical Parenting Strategies For ADHD Support At Home And School

  • Learn ADHD foundations without blame so you can respond with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
  • Create practical strategies for calmer routines, stronger connection, and confident support at home and school.
  • Improve homework, chores, transitions, screen time, emotional regulation, and follow-through with realistic systems.
  • Develop a long-term Parenting plan that supports your child’s strengths, needs, treatment options, and family relationships.

A complete guide to Parenting a Child with ADHD through structure, connection, school support, and sustainable family systems.

This course begins with a clear, shame-free understanding of ADHD, including how it affects the developing brain, executive function, motivation, impulse control, and emotional regulation. You will learn to recognize your child’s strengths, triggers, and patterns so daily struggles make more sense and your responses become more effective. From there, the course moves into home systems that support attention, including morning and evening routines, transitions, chores, instructions, and follow-through. You will also learn how to reduce homework battles, communicate productively with teachers, and advocate for practical support at school. Lessons on behavior and emotions cover big reactions, impulsivity, defiance, aggression, positive discipline, boundaries, and repair, helping you respond firmly without losing connection. Modern family challenges such as screen time, gaming, sleep, food, movement, sensory needs, siblings, parent stress, guilt, therapy, coaching, medication, and treatment decisions are addressed with balanced, practical guidance. By the end, you will have a long-term ADHD support plan and a calmer, more confident approach to Parenting that helps your child feel understood, supported, and capable.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

4 lessons

Lesson 1: Understanding ADHD Without Blame

20 min Preview
ADHD is not a character flaw, a parenting failure, or a child choosing to be difficult. It is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects attention, impulse control, activity level, emotional regulati…

Lesson 2: How ADHD Affects the Developing Brain

21 min
This lesson explains ADHD as a neurodevelopmental difference that affects attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, motivation, and the use of executive functions. Parents learn why a child ma…

Lesson 3: Executive Function: The Skills Behind Daily Struggles

22 min
This lesson explains executive function as the set of brain-based skills that help children pause, plan, remember, shift, manage emotions, and finish daily tasks. For many children with ADHD, the prob…

Lesson 4: Recognizing Strengths, Triggers, and Patterns

18 min
This lesson helps parents move from reacting to ADHD-related behavior in the moment to noticing the patterns underneath it. You will learn how to observe strengths, triggers, body signals, time-of-day…

Home Systems

3 lessons

Lesson 5: Building a Home Environment That Supports Attention

20 min
This lesson focuses on shaping the home environment so a child with ADHD has fewer avoidable obstacles to attention, follow-through, and emotional regulation. Rather than trying to make a child “try h…

Lesson 6: Morning, Evening, and Transition Routines

22 min
This lesson builds practical home systems for the three moments that often create the most friction for children with ADHD: mornings, evenings, and transitions between activities. Instead of relying o…

Lesson 7: Chores, Instructions, and Follow-Through

19 min
This lesson teaches parents how to make chores and everyday instructions more doable for a child with ADHD. It focuses on reducing vague commands, breaking tasks into visible steps, using brief prompt…

Learning Support

2 lessons

Lesson 8: Homework Without Daily Battles

23 min
This lesson shows parents how to reduce daily homework conflict by changing the structure around homework, not by trying to force more willpower from a child with ADHD. The focus is on predictable sta…

Lesson 9: Working Productively with Teachers and Schools

21 min
This lesson shows parents how to build a productive, respectful working relationship with teachers and school staff when a child has ADHD. The focus is on clear communication, shared problem-solving, …

Behavior and Emotions

3 lessons

Lesson 10: Emotional Regulation and Big Reactions

24 min
This lesson helps parents understand why children with ADHD can have fast, intense emotional reactions and why those reactions are often tied to executive function, not defiance or poor character. Par…

Lesson 11: Responding to Impulsivity, Defiance, and Aggression

23 min
This lesson teaches parents how to respond when ADHD-related impulsivity, defiance, or aggression shows up in daily life. The focus is not on “winning” the moment, but on reducing escalation, keeping …

Lesson 12: Positive Discipline, Boundaries, and Repair

22 min
This lesson teaches positive discipline for children with ADHD: firm, calm boundaries paired with connection, skill-building, and repair after conflict. Parents will learn how to set limits that are c…

Modern Family Challenges

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Screen Time, Gaming, and Digital Boundaries

20 min
This lesson helps parents set practical, enforceable digital boundaries for children with ADHD without turning every screen transition into a power struggle. It explains why games, videos, and apps ca…

Whole-Child Support

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Sleep, Food, Movement, and Sensory Needs

21 min
This lesson looks at four everyday foundations that often shape ADHD symptoms at home: sleep, food, movement, and sensory regulation. These supports do not replace behavioral strategies, school accomm…

Care and Treatment

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Medication, Therapy, Coaching, and Treatment Decisions

24 min
This lesson helps parents understand the main treatment options for a child with ADHD: medication, parent training, therapy, school-based supports, and coaching. It explains what each option can and c…

Family Dynamics

2 lessons

Lesson 16: Supporting Siblings and Family Relationships

19 min
This lesson focuses on how ADHD can affect the whole family system, especially siblings who may feel overlooked, blamed, confused, or pressured to be more flexible than is fair. Parents will learn pra…

Lesson 17: Parent Stress, Guilt, and Sustainable Self-Care

18 min
This lesson helps parents recognize how chronic stress and guilt can build when raising a child with ADHD, especially when family life feels unpredictable or judged by others. It reframes self-care as…

Putting It Together

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Creating a Long-Term ADHD Support Plan

22 min
In this lesson, families turn individual ADHD strategies into a long-term support plan that can grow with the child. The focus is not on creating a perfect system, but on building a practical rhythm f…
About Your Instructor
Professor Amit Kumar

Professor Amit Kumar

Professor Amit Kumar guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.