Part 3: Parental Burnout – recovery, prevention and signs
When a child needs intensive support, caregivers tend to stop prioritising self-care and push their needs to last.
When a child needs intensive support, caregivers tend to stop prioritising self-care and push their needs to last.
Parental burnout occurs when the level of stress outweighs the availability of resources to cope with it.
Parental burnout occurs when the level of stress outweighs the availability of resources to cope with it.
It takes an empathetic and curious teacher to distinguish between a stress response, or an attempt to gain additional sensory input, or a symptom of underdeveloped skills from purposeful behaviour.
Outdated classroom rules can be problematic for neurodivergent students because they have been written with a neurotypical lens.
Neurodiversity can be supported by adapting, adjusting and enhancing teaching strategies and the classroom environment.
Teachers who create inclusive learning environments, can prevent students with ADHD from feeling isolated, judged, or having low self-esteem.
ADHD affects working memory, which is needed to meet teacher expectations. But if you can’t remember instructions, it’s easy to break rules!
Results of several studies show that empathy contributes positively to educational interventions by increasing a teacher’s understanding of children with ADHD in various situations.
As my kid progressed through school, we noticed that it was becoming more challenging for him to hold it all together, especially at home.