PARENTING SERIES
Topic: How To Survive My ADHD Kid!
(Free Online Workshop - Open to Parents & Guardians of Children)
April 9th, 7 - 8pm (Online)
Nathan Pillai, M.A. Psych., Director of Bayridge Kids
Sponsored by Bayridge Counselling Centres
Human Strong is a Bayridge Circle of Care Company
How this Workshop Can Help
What is ADHD?
A lot of parents struggle with this question. They’ve been told by either a teacher or a doctor that their child has or may have ADHD. What’s important here is to not get hung up on a label but rather look at the symptoms. It is an inability to focus, concentrate effectively, have sustained attention, or have sustained self-control (always on the go or fidgeting/squirming). This can be more challenging in low-stimulation environments such as the classroom.
How it Makes You Feel as a Parent?
- Create arguments over stupid, silly things and feel guilty because their child brings out the worst in them
- Parents feel bad because they get so angry.
- Feelings of love and closeness seem to be lost memories
How it Can Affect Your Family:
- Erupt in arguments over tasks not done
- Be in constant power struggles
- Be in chaos
- Seldom have fun
- Constantly reminding the child
- Create arguments over stupid, silly things
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Meet the Workshop's Therapist:
Nathan Pillai
M.A. Psych.
Director of Bayridge Kids
I have worked in the healthcare and mental health fields for the last 10 years including addictions therapy, adult, youth, and family counselling, trauma surgery, transfusion medicine, medical research, and healthcare manufacturing. These diverse but targeted realms of experience have produced my holistic approach to helping children and families.
Ultimately, I look beyond the usual checklist of problematic behaviours, focusing on the whole story and what exactly is happening in an individual’s life and how they are integrated into their personal environments. Whether a paradigm shift in parenting or a program to improve behavioural problems is needed, I find great satisfaction in making the goals of a family or child a reality.