Show notes
Today's episode is a re-release of Episode 43, because the message is just that important. In this episode of The ADHD Parenting Podcast, hosts Ryan Wexelblatt and Mike McLeod explore what it means to “step into your parental authority.” Drawing from research and clinical experience, they discuss how authoritative parenting—balancing warmth with structure—helps children with ADHD develop self-regulation, emotional safety, and independence.
Highlighted moments
authoritative parenting is high empathy with high expectations, okay?
“permissive parenting has been rebranded on social media as being compassionate and with a bunch of different names I'm not going to mention here.”
“the best sentence to understand permissive parenting is basically when you overindulge the child to avoid conflict.”
“They're never going to learn it through your words, through your lectures, through your monologues, you telling them to calm down, you telling them to stop and think and process or take deep breaths or any of this co-regulation stuff you hear about. They're going to learn by watching you, which is real co-regulation, which is modeling.”
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