Summary
How do you teach yourself to parent when you were raised by a broken emotionally immature mother? Then throw in society’s illusion of motherhood where it is expected mothers are born nurturers who saves everyone with a unrealistic superwomen mentality. What happens to your self-esteem when your mother was none of these misguided societal illusions? (hint: unworthiness)
In this episode I speak with Belinda Tyner, an Adult Geriatric Nurse Practitioner about her journey of becoming a warrior while teaching herself how to parent through the challenges of raising a child with ADHD.
Topics Discussed:
- The illusions of motherhood
- Teaching yourself how to parent
- Meeting your child’s needs where their at
- Conditioning of the Superwoman Syndrome
- Asking yourself “what do I need?”
- Being raised by parents in survival mode
- Importance of praising a child with ADHD during the good moments
- Importance of ADHD diagnosis ASAP
- Being tired of doing it all
ADHD and Parenting Resources:
The Whole Brain Child BookLD@school National Institute of Mental Health
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