56: ADHD Life Coaching with Laurie Dupar

Published: May 11, 2023, 3 a.m.

Have you ever considered ADHD life coaching for kids and how it may be the difference between surviving and thriving with ADHD?

Laurie Dupar is a 20 year experienced ADHD life coach and the head of the International ADHD Coach Training Center. She is a qualified psychiatric nurse practitioner.

She helps people of all ages succeed by utilizing her unrivaled knowledge in the neurology and behavior management of ADHD.\xa0



Key Takeaways:

[1:18] What made Laurie passionate about ADHD?

[1:35] How did she help her son when he was diagnosed with ADHD?

[5:49] Why did Laurie go back to school to do life coaching for ADHD?

[6:00] Why coaching makes Laurie compassionate

[6:20] What is helpful for parents to know about their child's brain style?

[10:00] What age is best to try coaching a child?

[23:33] Why conversation with your kids is important

[25:00] How ADHD becomes their superpower





Memorable Quotes:

\u201cWhen I'm working with families with children under the age of 12, we have a conversation about that. And it makes a huge difference for them to understand that if their child is not doing what they want them to, it's not because they don't want to. It's because they can't do it.\u201d

\u201cI've now been an ADHD life coach for 20 years and have opened my own training program for coaches, usually parents who have children with ADHD, and it still amazes me 20 years later, how much is misunderstood and the lack of awareness.\u201d

\u201cWhen parents go through the struggles and then they come out at the back end with all this information, they've just got this passion to be able to share it with others.\u201d

\u201cI'm a natural learner. I always look for, as you said, the why underneath the behavior.\u201d\xa0

\u201cKids are pre-programmed to try and please adults. It's to their benefit to be able to do that.\u201d\xa0

\u201cI want them to be happy and to be able to take care of themselves and to have good relationships, even though the issues that a parent might call with are very different.\u201d\xa0

\u201cOne thing to know about kids with ADHD\u2026when they're either angry or they can anger somebody else or frustrate somebody else, it actually is like getting a natural dopamine hit for them.\u201d




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