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ADHD Discipline: Stop Punishing the Same Behavior Over and Over
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Consequences don’t work for your ADHD child because they’re not instructions. Why bigger punishments backfire, and the hold-teach-reinforce shift that builds real skills.
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Hit their brother, lose the iPad. Miss the homework, lose the screen. The consequence doesn’t land, so next time you make it bigger, then bigger again. If you keep escalating and keep having the same fight, the problem isn’t the size of the consequence.
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This is the companion to last week’s “you’ve tried everything” episode, so…
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