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Maybe start by focusing on exercises to help them build better emotional self awareness. My SO and I both have ADHD. So we try to make a habit of taking the time to "check in". We both take a moment to examine how we feel and clearly communicate our status to the other person. Making that a daily practice with your kids would be a really good first step.

With both myself and my kids having a healthy dose, it's an eternal self learning journey. You might have some insights after years of living with it that they don't but you still don't entirely know their heads either.

I like to push the idea of known truth reflections. If things get confusing and chaotic take a bit to redirect towards some thing or fact that is undeniably true, and then use that pause to clear out the noise in the rest of things.

It's not saying anything is abnormal, but just taking a bit to clear the clutter.

The best I can do is say "model it with them". What that looks like for me is having open dialogue with them about how they feel about attention and keeping that same dialogue open in the event that they can't process that and respond in the moment. Being able to do that allows them to think about my behavior and their own, so that we can both address how we feel about the attention we give each other and receive.

Don't have a kid yet but currently trying and I've been thinking about this lately, especially after seeing my nephews who definitely have ADHD but aren't being taught how to handle it at all vs my best friend's kid who also has it but is being guided better so...I dunno. Take it as the thoughts of a guy who knows nothing but has hard core ADHD himself.

My plan is to build on my wife and I's plans to teach them everyone is different, and that includes how you need to communicate with them. I plan to teach them that people have their own thoughts and wants and needs and being conscious of those is important. I do also plan to teach them that not everyone will like them or want to communicate or be friends with them and that's okay, so long as it's just because they're different and not because you did something to hurt them.

Some people are just not going to accept the energy of an ADHD person, I'm hoping if they know not everyone will like them just because they like different things, that extends to ADHD energy too.

I'm really hoping we raise our kids to be open and honest with us about what they're thinking and feeling so we can be aware more of their issues specifically.

I also found, personally, getting exposed to different cultures and seeing how they think about things differently and interact differently helped me tackle my own communication issues and realize that some people I thought hated me were actually solid friends and just don't express much (but they've shown up every moving day). Not sure how to translate that into teaching moments for a kid other than teaching them about other cultures and gently pointing out differences in my own friends and how it's okay.

I've got a friend who teaches German and another buddy who's half Japanese. I'm hoping I can talk them both into taking my kid for a day and doing a culture deep dive.

Personally, I’m just not having kids lol