Effective training will teach parents how to apply strategies to manage their child's behavior. Positive reinforcement and encouragement needs to be used as opposed to punishment for the ADD child. The natural consequences that the child faces will often be punishment enough. For example, not replacing a toy that has been left outside in the rain. This will have a life-long effect.
Parents often feel exhausted and overwhelmed in raising an ADD child.
Joining a parent support group may benefit greatly. Here, parents are free to share what they go through. Thus, appropriate patterns of behavior may be established and developed into habits of living. ADD in the Classroom ADD, if left untreated, can severely interfere with the child's learning. Children with ADD often fidget and become restless, blurt out answers, respond in inappropriate ways, and are unable to attend.