http://www.adhd-inattentive.com/64/making-friends-the-other-social-studies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-friends-the-other-social-studies Who Put the Ketchup in the Medicine Cabinet? Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.adhd-inattentive.com/64/making-friends-the-other-social-studies/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Help Your Child Make Friends Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:30:03 +0000 http://adhd-inattentive.com/64/making-friends-the-other-social-studies/#comment-104 [...] When we think about ADHD, we often focus (no pun intended – promise) on the attention issue. But I’ve often addressed the fact that attention is just the first of the challenges our kids face. Often their struggles include social issues. They may be too shy,too forward, too quirky, too active, too – whatever. But the fact remains that they end up on the sidelines, the last chosen for a sport, the uninvited guest to the party. It’s so hard somtimes for our kids to make friends. [...] [...] When we think about ADHD, we often focus (no pun intended – promise) on the attention issue. But I’ve often addressed the fact that attention is just the first of the challenges our kids face. Often their struggles include social issues. They may be too shy,too forward, too quirky, too active, too – whatever. But the fact remains that they end up on the sidelines, the last chosen for a sport, the uninvited guest to the party. It’s so hard somtimes for our kids to make friends. [...]

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