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  Brian R King Every expert on parenting will tell you how important it is to praise our children. Especially the children with Autism, ADHD or other challenges. However, in spite of our best intentions, the  praise  we use to empower our children can lead to increased stress that overloads them. Listen as Brian shares a story about a time this happened to his oldest son, and how they both learned that being proud is about so much more than whether or not you win. Listen Now  EP 20: How Praise Can Accidentally Ruin Your Child’s Life

  Brian R King Since we were very young we were told that we needed to be more independent if we were ever going to make it in life, right? Wrong! For those of us with ADHD or Autism Spectrum challenges our best chance of reaching our fullest potential lies in learning how to form strategic partnerships with other people. Partnerships that relegate our challenges to a footnote instead of a headline. Listen as Brian explains the power of these partnerships in your life. Listen Now .   EP 19: How to get ready for real world responsibilities with ADHD

Many of us with ADHD or autism are so used to being criticized and so used to having difficulty that it’s much easier to think that we have more weaknesses than we will ever have strengths. It doesn’t help that those who are looking to support us also have a tendency to emphasize our challenges. They do this by encouraging us to work diligently to overcome our weaknesses instead of living from our strengths. Now before you scream, “I DON’T DO THAT” at your computer screen, please bear with me and I will explain. The obvious problem with emphasis on reducing or eliminating weaknesses is that you only get to develop the things to which you give your time and attention. So how do you learn to discover and develop your strengths with so little time and attention given to doing so? What Makes Me Confident? It is in living from our strengths that we have the greatest likelihood of experiencing a feeling of competence and success more often. It’s the exper...

Many of us with ADHD or autism are so used to being criticized and so used to having difficulty that it’s much easier to think that we have more weaknesses than we will ever have strengths. It doesn’t help that those who are looking to support us also have a tendency to emphasize our challenges. They do this by encouraging us to work diligently to overcome our weaknesses instead of living from our strengths. Now before you scream, “I DON’T DO THAT” at your computer screen, please bear with me and I will explain. The obvious problem with emphasis on reducing or eliminating weaknesses is that you only get to develop the things to which you give your time and attention. So how do you learn to discover and develop your strengths with so little time and attention given to doing so? What Makes Me Confident? It is in living from our strengths that we have the greatest likelihood of experiencing a feeling of competence and success more often. It’s the exper...

Many of us with ADHD or autism are so used to being criticized and so used to having difficulty that it’s much easier to think that we have more weaknesses than we will ever have strengths. It doesn’t help that those who are looking to support us also have a tendency to emphasize our challenges. They do this by encouraging us to work diligently to overcome our weaknesses instead of living from our strengths. Now before you scream, “I DON’T DO THAT” at your computer screen, please bear with me and I will explain. The obvious problem with emphasis on reducing or eliminating weaknesses is that you only get to develop the things to which you give your time and attention. So how do you learn to discover and develop your strengths with so little time and attention given to doing so? What Makes Me Confident? It is in living from our strengths that we have the greatest likelihood of experiencing a feeling of competence and success more often. It’s the exper...