For children with ADHD and their parents, school can often be very challenging. Children frequently avoid unpleasant homework, engage their parents in endless discussions about the purpose of certain exercises, dawdle and daydream, and quickly become frustrated when they face failure or cannot solve a task. Even parents with strong parenting skills can find the learning and homework situation with dreamers and whirlwinds to be overwhelming at times.

This parent guide provides you with concrete, practical support on how to:

• Increase your child's concentration and endurance
• Make learning more motivating
• Reduce frustration, arguments, and tears surrounding homework
• Manage chaos and forgetfulness
• Help your child achieve more success through clever learning methods
• Foster your child's strengths
• Support your child during setbacks and protect their self-esteem
• Build a good collaboration with the school.

The strategies presented have been developed through work with hundreds of families and have proven effective in practice. You may be surprised to find that often it is small, inconspicuous changes that have a significant impact.

Stefanie Rietzler and Fabian Grolimund are psychologists and jointly lead the Academy for Learning Coaching in Zurich.