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What’s Your One Thing This New Year?
Happy New Year! I'm sure you are as thrilled as I am to say buh-bye to 2020 and hello to 2021. Like most of us, I bet you have been thinking about your New Year's Resolutions, right? Your list of all the things you want to change or do better this year. I recently...
Traveling With an Emotional Support Animal
This week was my first time traveling with my dog, Parker as my emotional support animal or ESA. I'd like to share my experience with you. Why Do I Need an Emotional Support Animal? I'll let you in on something only close friends and some family know. I don't have...
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
“Picture it. Sicily…1987.” (Any Golden Girls fans out there?) Well, it wasn’t Sicily, it was Sutri, a little village close to Rome. It was 1987. September to be exact. A college student named Fancesco Cirillo, set a kitchen timer (in the...
Who’s Your Body Double?
"Who's my body double?? Why in the world would I need a body double, Jennifer? I'm not an actor in an action packed movie! I'm just an every day person with ADHD!" I know, I know. But a body double in the ADHD world is not the same as a body double in the movies. What...
Encouragement For All the Mamas
Happy Mother's Day! To all the mamas out there raising kiddos with ADHD, you're doing a great job! I was encouraged today by both of my children and in turn, I'd like to encourage all the moms who are knee-deep in the trenches of raising a child/children with ADHD....
How to Make a “Track Your Work” Poster for Students and Adults
Whether you're a student or adult, keeping track of all your to-do's can be difficult. Having ADHD makes it even more difficult due to the deficits in executive functioning. And now with the COVID-19 pandemic, many adults are working from home and homeschooling at the...
How to Make a Backpack Tag for School
One of the biggest challenges for our elementary aged kiddos with ADHD is remembering what they need to take to school and what they need to bring home. Forgetting papers, a textbook or any number of items can cause frustration for the parents, the child, and...
Make the Most of Your Summer Vacation
Do you have a family vacation planned this summer? As a parent, you want to create fun-filled memories for your family. And you desperately want that much-deserved break. However, vacations for families impacted by ADHD can be frustrating and difficult, to say the...
Should You Give Your Child a Break from ADHD Medication This Summer?
Are you trying to decide if you should give your child a break from ADHD medication over the summer? It can be a tough decision. Many parents struggle to know what to do. There is no right or wrong answer. But I hope this post can help come to...
Get Creative with Your Summer Schedule
Now that summer is here and you have the base of your routine set, let's get creative and add some "dory-like" fun. If you missed my first post on Swim Through Summer, check it out here. In this post, I'm focusing more on elementary age kiddos. But don't worry,...
Swim Through Summer by Adding Structure
Are your kiddos ready to swim this summer? It’s THAT time of year. The final school bell is ringing. Excitement is stirring in students. Teachers are ready to have the summer off. And parents... Well, if you’re the parent of a child/tween or teen with ADHD that...
HUSH! It’s Funny Friday
I've been waiting all week to share today's Funny Friday. Compliments of who else than my own personal comedian and ADHD teenager, Carlton. Now, let me preface this story with the admission that what he did, although funny, was disrespectful to his band teacher and...
A Laundry Hack From My ADHD Son
Even as I write the title of this blog post, it kinda makes me laugh. A laundry hack from my 17-year-old son with ADHD?! It's something he started doing about 6 months ago, out of the blue, and as the "laundry doer" of the house, it makes so much sense. I know, I...
ADHD Parent Bootcamp
Get your ADHD parenting skills in shape during this 5-week Parent Bootcamp teleclass! You don't want to miss this! It doesn't matter where you live. All classes will be done via conference call, so whether you live in Nebraska, North Carolina, California or...
Can Stimulant Medication Teach Responsibility?
"Can stimulant medication teach responsibility?" Does that seem like an odd question to you? If you answer, "yes," then I kind of have to agree with you. But bear with me for a minute, and read the post. My 15 year old ADDer, Carlton, has been taking...
Famous Folk with ADHD – Adam Levine
What's not to love about Maroon 5's Adam Levine? He's a great musician, he's quite good looking, and he speaks out about his ADHD. In fact, he has been a spokesperson for ADDA, the Attention Deficit Disorder Association, and CHADD. So who better to close out...
Famous Folk with ADHD – Kinko’s Paul Orfalea
Famous Folk with ADHD. Meet Kinko’s founder, Paul Orfalea.
Are You Ready for a Light Bulb Moment?
A local after school program here in Lincoln, called Lighthouse, launched a fundraising event this spring titled Illuminating Lincoln: Lighthouse. As we drove to and from school, errands and regular activities, we began seeing gigantic light bulbs pop up all over...
Homework Battle…it’s on!
We have officially completed one week of school. Some things went well, for example, Carlton woke up easily each morning and we made it to school on time. (Yay!) He enjoyed seeing his classmates and turned in all his homework assignments. (Yay!) Other things,...
What I Wish My Son’s Teachers Knew About Him & ADHD
Read more here→ To all the teachers reading this…thank you for teaching our children. It is my hope that this post will offer insight into the world of a student diagnosed with Attention Deficit or ADHD. Dear Teachers, I wish you knew that my son doesn’t want to...
The School Planner for ADHD/ADD: From Enemy to Friend
The start of another school year is just around the corner. Where has the summer gone? My summer has been spent with my fellow classmates at the ADD Coach Academy as we finish up our Basic ADHD Coach training and start our own ADHD Coaching Practices. It’s a great...
Screen Time Agreements and Contracts with your ADHD Child or Teen – Part 2
In Part 1 of this post, I shared six golden nuggets from the “Engaging Your Child in Screen Time Agreements and Contracts” webinar. The webinar, by Bonnie Harris ofConnective Parenting, was one of many from the Screen Time Sanity Telesummit hosted by Cynthia...
Screen Time Agreements & Contracts with your ADHD Child or Teen – Part 1
I spent some time last week listening to the Screen Time Telesummithosted by Cynthia Crossley at Better Family Habits. Better Family Habits is based in the UK, so just listening to the host, Cynthia was worth tuning into the webinars. However, even without Cynthia’s...
A Story of Hope Involving ADHD and Anxiety
Hi everyone! I’m sorry it has been a bit quiet on the blog and Facebook the last couple of weeks. My ADHD coach training and keeping up with my children’s summer activities and schedule has taken over my life. But here I am, ready to share some encouragement with...
Your ADHD/ADDer Needs a Summer Routine
We are starting our second full week of summer in the Kampfe house. I typically give the kids a week to just lounge around with no real schedule, but even with just one week, I pay the cost with my ADDer. He tends to be grumpy and moody, and digs his heels in more...
ADHD: A Teen’s Summer Reading List
School’s out and summer is here (finally) for us in Nebraska! Last week I shared the books I will be reading this summer and this week I’d like to share some books I’m excited for my son, Carlton to read. If you didn’t have a chance to check out last week’s post,...
ADHD: Summer Reading for Mom
Summer is right around the corner. So I thought I would post my summer reading program for Moms. Wait…Moms? Aren’t our kiddos the ones who need to be signing up for the local library’s summer reading program? Yes, they are, and we will get to that in next week’s...
Dear Coach of an ADHD Athlete
In a recent blog post titled “ADHD: The Tears of a Mom” I talked about my son’s struggle with a new tennis coach. I felt somewhat to blame for this struggle between my ADHD athlete and his coach because I hadn’t educated the coach on ADHD, much less mentioned that...
ADHD: Mother’s Day Special
Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend so I thought I would offer all the Mom’s of ADDers some encouragement and advice. I’m not by any means an expert on the matter, but I do have several years of experience under my belt. So here ya go – Take care of yourself....
ADHD: The Tears of a Mom
Raising children is hard. Raising children who have an ADHD diagnosis is even harder. The term, “complex kids,” that Elaine and Diane coined over at Impact ADD, resonates with me. ADDers are complex. Raising them, teaching them, coaching them, etc. can bring about...
The ADD End of the School Year Funk
I don’t know about your ADDer, but around this time every year my guy is completely ready for school to be over. It seems like it takes him the first half of the year to settle into a good routine and get everything figured out. We have 1-3 months of that “sweet...
ADHD Emotions Intensified
In last week’s post, one thing I wanted you to take away was the intensity at which an ADDer reacts or responds is the intensity that he/she is feeling the emotion. Oh the joy of ADHD emotions! I want to emphasize this because it was something I didn’t know until I...
The Fantastic Focus of ADHD
Welcome to Fantastically Focused…if I’m interested! It is my very first blog post, and I’m finding myself excited to share the adventure of blogging about Attention Deficit with you. When I was trying to decide on a name for my blog, I enlisted the help of my Facebook...