Informative, empathetic and empowering for families and their brilliant neurodivergent children. Alex Partridge, bestselling author of Now It All Makes SenseA must-read for every parent or teacher of a child with ADHD. Lisa Lloyd, bestselling author of Raising the SEN-BetweenersThis essential guide offers clear, practical advice to help parents understand ADHD, support their child's unique strengths with joy and confidence. Zenna Hopson, Former chairman of OfstedIs your ADHD child struggling at school? Do they make friends, but find it difficult to keep them? Do your attempts to get them off their screens end in tears (and that's just you)? Jessie Hewitson, SEND Agony Aunt for The Times, ADHDer and parent to two fantastically neurodivergent children, has been there. Here she asks whether ADHD is over diagnosed, is medication the solution, and how can parents best support ADHD kids to become the happiest version of themselves at school, in their friendships, and at home. For more than a decade Jessie has been on a quest to better understand neurodivergent happiness and the many barriers young ADHD people face in finding it. Now she shares everything she has learned, including interviews with world-leading scientists, researchers and experts in the field. Combined with her own personal experience, ADHD will empower you to centre happiness in what can be a more complicated and ultimately more rewarding parenting journey.
