Sometimes a mother brings her child in for an ADHD evaluation and, somewhere in the middle of talking about her child, she gets very quiet. She has just heard herself describe the difficulty getting started. The procrastination followed by a frantic burst of productivity. The big emotions. The sensitivity to criticism. The tendency to lose things, forget things, or become completely overwhelmed by things that seem as though they should be easy. And then she says something li

Resilience isn't about never falling. It's about learning that you can get back up. Every parent wants their child to be resilient. We want children who can handle disappointment, recover from mistakes, cope when things don't go as planned, and keep going when something is difficult. We want them to have what I call The Bounce Factor.