A welcome addition to books in this area of neurodiversity. This is a comprehensive guide to understanding ADHD, and giving skills to carers to support children with the multitude of symptoms and issues they might have. I read the book not as a parent but as a teacher trying to improve my interactions with ADHD children in my classes. The book is presented by knowledgeable professionals. It is quite dense and is not a book you can zoom through. Thought is needed to the information given, and time to reflect and implement is also required. I have found this worthwhile. Thank you to Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Singing Dragon and NetGalley for the ARC. The views expressed are all mine, freely given.

This is a good starter book for both parents and teachers who are learning about ADHD for the first time. It goes over the symptoms and strengths of ADHD, as well as examples of each. I would recommend it for people just starting to dive into neurodiversity. But if you have experience or knowledge of the topic, I would skip this one as it doesn't add much to the conversation.

Really great and informative. This is all new to me and my son so it was helpful to read this and see some of the ways I can help him. Definitely be a book I will be using a lot going forward with our adhd journey.

A great resource for parents who are just learning about ADHD. It can be very scientific at points which was hard for me to get through. I prefer a more casual approach.

Raising and ADHD child is a bit of a misleading title. It gives little advice on how to manage/raise a child with adhd and the bits of advice it does give literally don't work (on the whole) for neurodivergent children. Alongside that the book was very repetitive in parts and a bit disjointed in others. It just wasn't a very well put together book at all. Not one I would recommend.

This is full of brilliant information for raising a neurodivergent child. Parents and teachers alike can learn from this! Lots of these things are just good parenting too though.

As a mother with a child with ADHD this book gave me information that's happening now, that will come and what to expect to help my child.

This is a great book full of information that's needed not telling you about your child.
It's understanding and I would recommend to anyone in my boat.

For parents searching for an easy to understand read, this book is it. The author demonstrates knowledge of this area and presents it in a way that is digestible and informed. While not a comprehensive book on parenting, I believe this will give parents, caregivers, clinicians insight to help build the bases of what it means to raise a neurodivergent child with ADHD. It provides a quick glance of the implications of ADHD on the lifespan and provides caveats amongst questions many parents may have in regards to working with schools, treatment options, executive functioning and even screen time. As a therapist, this is a book that I would recommend to parents.

I was disappointed in this book. As a parent of two newly diagnosed children, I was hopeful for a relatable look at how to organize our lives. Instead, it felt like someone’s academic paper.

Perhaps better formatting would make it more approachable, but it was too dense for me to find actual helpful tips.

This contains extensive information on ADHD, as well as helpful tips on how to help a child or teenager with ADHD. The appendices contain a Q &A section and quite a few websites for further research. It should be noted that this book is UK-based, but almost all of the content therein is universal.

Also, I discovered that Brits spell the word “instil” as “instill”, and it kind of broke my proofreading brain. (I, too, have ADHD!)

My only complaints are that:
1. The recommended strategies to help your progeny are precisely those that are extremely difficult if you are an adult with ADHD, which, due to the genetic component, is likely to be the case.
2. The content does get a tad repetitive, and I found myself thinking, “You just said that!!” more than a few times.

My overall view is that this is a solid book for parents, and it’s worth a read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for the free ebook in exchange for my honest review.