Ep #77: How I learned to help my ADHD kid with Eric Bjorklund

As parents, we may love our child, but not always like them. We may think they are a “bad” kid who only does wrong. We may believe that the only way to change them is by punishing them. While this type of thinking is common, it isn’t helpful and will end up doing incredible damage to our relationship with them. We get that some children can be hard. They know how to push our buttons. Once we start seeing the bad in our children, it can be easy to continue to see all they are doing wrong. Learning how to parent isn’t easy. The good news is that the behavior skills taught on Smarter Parenting have been proven to repair relationships. In today’s podcast, Eric Bjorklund talks about how the skills of Smarter Parenting and the Teaching-Family Model changed how he parented and how those changes made an incredible difference in the relationship with his son.  Before Eric started using the skills of the Teaching-Family Model, he didn’t like his kid with ADHD. All he could see where the “bad” things his child was doing. He thought that he could make his child good by “punishing them.” What it was doing was creating barriers between him and his child, and he didn’t like where it was going. By learning Effective Praise, he was able to see the good in his child. Once he started seeing the good, he started liking his child. That shift set his relationship with his child on a new and positive path. You can come to learn to like your child!  If you need guidance on how to do it, reach out to Parenting Coach Siope Kinikini; he can show you how to turn around your relationships. Sign up for a free 15-minute mini-session: https://www.smarterparenting.com/coaching/ To learn more about Effective Praise visit: https://www.smarterparenting.com/skills/effective-praise/ For full show notes and transcript visit: https://www.smarterparenting.com/adhd-parenting-podcast/