The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook: Empowering Your Family to Thrive - Paperback

by Vivian Dunstan (Author)

A comprehensive guidebook for parents of children with ADHD.

The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook is a practical, compassionate guide to help you understand ADHD, respond effectively to your child's behaviour and create a calmer more connected home. Parenting comes with daily challenges that can leave you exhausted, isolated and questioning whether you're doing enough to help your child succeed. Raising a child with ADHD can feel like you're navigating uncharted territory without a compass. This handbook will show you the path forward.

Written by Vivian Dunstan, founder of ADHD Support Australia, this comprehensive guide blends over a decade of community and professional expertise, lived experience and the latest research to bring you real-world ADHD strategies and insights. Implement these science-backed, parent-tested steps today to support and nurture your child, your family and yourself.

You'll discover how to:

• Encourage your child's strengths for improved self-esteem and school success
• Take a holistic approach to nutrition and lifestyle - supporting focus, sleep, mood and wellbeing
• Manage screen time, build social skills and nurture healthy online and offline relationships
• Craft a family-centred parenting philosophy that creates positive dynamics and supports every family member
• Look after your own wellbeing while parenting a neurodivergent child

Whether your child has just been diagnosed, or you've been navigating ADHD for years, The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook will give you the tools, strategies and insights you need to understand and respond to your child's unique needs.

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A comprehensive guide for parents of children with ADHD

Raising a child with ADHD can feel like navigating uncharted territory without a compass. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook offers practical, compassionate guidance to help you understand ADHD, respond effectively to your child's behaviour and create a calmer, more connected home.

Drawing on the latest research, lived experience and over a decade of professional expertise, Vivian Dunstan, founder of ADHD Support Australia, brings together real-world insights alongside step-by-step, science-backed, parent-tested strategies to support and nurture your child, your family and yourself.

Discover how to:

• navigate breakthroughs and setbacks
• encourage your child's strengths for improved self-esteem and school success
• build strong social skills and navigate the challenges of screens and digital parenting
• take a holistic approach to ADHD and wellbeing through nutrition, lifestyle and gut health
• create a nurturing family philosophy for a calmer home, while prioritising your own wellbeing.

Whether your child has just been diagnosed, or you've been navigating ADHD for years, The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook will give you new tools and confidence to understand and respond to your child's unique needs.

Author Biography

Vivian Dunstan is the founder of ADHD Support Australia and has guided families navigating ADHD since 2013. She is an ADDCA-trained ADHD coach, PEERS(R) Certified Provider supporting teens and young adults to build social skills, Digital Health and Wellness Educator, NeuroACT facilitator and teacher. As both a parent of a neurodivergent adult and someone with ADHD herself, Vivian blends professional expertise with lived experience to offer parents practical strategies delivered with empathy, clarity and hope.