by Nikki Schwartz
Photo Credit (Bottom Right, Clockwise): Kids Giving Your Problems? Hire an Elephant by peasap, Blowing Bubbles by Nicki Varkevisser, Tapping a Pencil by Rennett Stowe, Running by Ian Carroll. All photos used with permission via Flickr, with Creative Commons Licenses.
Important Note: Safety is key with this type of ADHD strategy. Please utilize these ideas wisely. These suggestions are not meant to substitute common sense or the advice of a health professional.
  This is my second post in the ADHD Tips for Parents series. I started off by posting an ADHD Tips Infographic that offered alternatives to ADHD habits that are unsafe, unhealthy or simply annoying to others. The ADHD brain tends to have an understimulated frontal lobe, where decision making, planning, and organizing happens. People with ADHD naturally choose activities and habits to help stimulate that area of the brain. Noisy fidgeting is very common, things like tapping feet, clicking pens, cracking knuckles, and tends to irritate others. CONTINUE READING
(Photo from Top Left: Pencil Fidgets by Abilitations; The Ultimate Fidget by Sensory University; Therapy Tangle by Tangle Creations; Balance Cushion by Isokinetics) |
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