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You may start with tangible rewards (stickers, popsicles, little toys) for every success. Over time, you can gradually wean down to sporadic praise (“great job!” or a hug), but do continue providing positive feedback well after your child has developed good habits that result in regular successes.  Making your child feel good about what they do is one key strategy to avoiding the need to discipline them in the first place. Do not be stingy on rewards. ADHD children need a lot of positive feedback. A lot of small, frequent rewards throughout the day work better than one large reward at the end of the day. Use a low, firm tone of voice when you need to discipline. Using a firm but even voice, say as few words as possible when giving instructions. The more you say, the less they will remember.  One expert reminds parents to “act, don’t yak!” Lecturing a child with ADHD is pointless, while powerful consequences say it all.  Avoid responding to child's behavior emotionally. If you get angry or yell, it may increase your child’s anxieties, fueling their belief that they're a bad kid who never does anything right. In addition, it may also invite your child have the feeling that they are in control since you lost your composure. Children with ADHD need more discipline than average kids, not less. While it might be tempting to give your child a pass on disciplining their behavior because of ADHD, this in fact only increases the likelihood that the behavior will continue.  As with most things in life, If you ignore it, it will escalate and get worse. Your best bet is to deal with the problem behavior the first time it occurs and right away. Enact discipline immediately after the behavior so that your child can connect their behavior with the discipline and your response. In this way, they will learn over time that this behavior comes with consequences, and hopefully stop engaging in the specific behavior. Children with ADHD can be impulsive and often do not consider the consequences to their actions. They often fail to realize they have done anything wrong. The cycle is such that if there are no consequences, this problem will get worse. Thus, they need adults to help them see this and learn the wrongness of their behavior and the potential consequences of continuing that behavior. Accept that ADHD children will just need more patience, guidance, and practice. If you compare an ADHD child with the "typical" child, you will likely get extremely frustrated. You will have to spend more time, energy, and thought into working with this sort of child. Stop comparing them to other "easier" kids. This is critical in having more positive--and thus more productive--interactions and results. Parents have success with their ADHD children by rewarding good behavior more often than they punish the bad. Opt to praise what they do right, rather than criticize what they do wrong.  Many parents have found more success in changing bad behaviors, such as poor table manners at mealtimes, by instead focusing on giving positive encouragement and praise when their children do something right. Instead of criticizing how your child sits at the table or talks with food in their mouth, try praising them when they use their utensils properly and when they are a good listener. This will help your child pay more attention to what they're doing in order to receive praise. Watch your ratio. Make sure your child gets more positive inputs than negative ones. You might have to go out of your way to “catch them being good” sometimes, but the benefits of praising more than punishing will be incalculable. There are many tricks to inspire better behavior— those carrots often work better than the threat of the sticks. For instance, if your child is dressed and in the kitchen for breakfast by a certain time, they can choose waffles instead of cereal for breakfast. Offering choices is one way to positively reinforce your child when they behave well.  Consider setting up a positive behavior system that allows your child to earn privileges, such as an allowance bonus, a special day out, or something similar. By the same token, poor behavior results in the loss of points, but points can be earned back with extra chores or other such activities.  A point system can help give children the motivation they need to comply. If your child is not motivated to pick up their toys before bedtime, knowing they will earn points toward a privilege may be all the incentive they need to comply. The best part of such a plan is that parents are no longer the bad guys when children don’t get privileges—their destinies are in their own hands and they have to take responsibility for their choices. Note that children have more success with a points system when it is clearly specified with a checklist, schedule, and deadlines.  Be aware checklists and schedules have limitations. ADHD makes even motivated children have difficulty staying on task. If the expectations are simply too high or not otherwise suitable, they may not experience success, and the system is useless.  For example: A child who is struggling with an essay for homework, and is simply spending so much time on it that she missed the deadline for practicing the violin may be in a terrible bind. Another example: A child has great trouble with a behavior checklist, and he never gets enough gold stars to earn a reward. Without positive reinforcement, he acts out rather than "buys into" the system. Rather than tell your child with ADHD to stop a bad behavior, tell them what they should be doing. Generally, children with ADHD often cannot instantly be able to think of a good behavior to replace the bad one with, so it will be hard to stop. Your job, as a guide, is to remind them what the right behavior is. Also, your ADHD child may not fully hear the "not" in your sentence, so the mind may not process what you are saying correctly. For example:  Instead of saying, "Stop jumping on the sofa", say, "We sit on the sofa." "Gentle hands with the cat" instead of, "Stop pulling on the cat's tail." "Criss cross applesauce!" instead of "Stop getting up." Focusing on the positives works well when crafting family rules as well. Instead of “no playing ball in the house,” try “balls are outside toys.” You may find more success with “walk slowly in the living room” than with “no running!” Attention--good or bad--is a reward for children with ADHD. Thus, you should give your child lots of attention when good behavior occurs, but limit the attention you give bad behavior as it can be seen by your child as a reward.   For instance, if your child gets out of bed to play at night, silently but firmly put them back where they belong without hugs and attention. Feel free to confiscate the toys, but do not discuss it at the time or they will feel rewarded by your attention or that the rules are up for debate. If you consistently fail to reward the bad behavior, it should disappear over time. If your child is cutting up their coloring book, simply take away the scissors and the book. A calm "we cut paper, not books" is all that is required.
Provide positive feedback. Act rationally. Address the behavior directly. Offer positive reinforcement. Develop a system of positive reinforcement. Try to frame everything in positive, rather than negative terms. Avoid giving too much attention to bad behavior.