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Nature - A Solution to ADHD?

We have forgotten our interdependence within our own species as well as with the species with whom we share this planet. Getting back into nature with wild animals and tribal people who have not forgotten can help us reconnect and remember our roots with benefits or our children.


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So often the catch phrase or a child misbehaving at having a melt down at home is 'oh well he or she must have ADHD or be neurodivergent',


Dr Russell Berkley world renown American psychiatrist and authority on ADHD says this conditions is often misdiagnosed. He says it is not that your child is unable to pay attention but that he struggles to self-regulate where to place his attention. For example your ADHD child may spend hours on a TV game but only four or five minutes on homework. Why? Because TV games are designed to offer constant feedback. If the soldier doges the bullet he stays alive. However writing down a maths answer on a blank piece of paper down not shout back, 'well done'.


Read on to Discover:


  • The Social Downs of ADHD

  • An Ecopsychology Look at ADHD

  • A Holistic Approach



 
 
 

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