If your child has ADHD, there are ways to help him or her remember things easier.
Just because your children have ADHD doesn’t mean that they’re doomed to do poorly in school.
There special tricks and techniques you can use to help your ADHD children succeed in school and improve their ability to remember things too.
It all has to do with understanding the strengths of your ADHD children and focusing on those when it comes to learning.
So instead of throwing a bunch of tasks at your ADHD child and expecting him to remember them…
Here are some things you can try instead…
1. Get Visual (And Silly) With Your Kids
Yes! You can draw pictures of the things your child needs to remember. The whackier and the more colorful the better because they’ll be easier to remember.
To help an attention deficit student remember the meaning of the word felons (which sounds like melons), make a picture of melons dressed in prison clothing marching off to jail.
To you it might sound silly or too stupid to work, but to your ADHD child it can be just the thing to link up the information in his brain in the right way.
Here’s another thing you can do:
2. Use Mnemonic Devices
Don’t worry. Mnemonic devices aren’t anything weird. They’re not even electronic (though they kind of sound like they might be.)
The best way to define a mnemonic device is to show you and example of one:
HOMES stands for the 5 Great Lakes in Michigan:
- Huron
- Ontario
- Michigan
- Erie
- Superior
The word HOMES helps you remember the first initials of all of the Great Lakes in Michigan. So “HOMES” is a mnemonic device, see?
You probably know of one from your own time in school when your teacher taught you the planets in the solar system, right?
The one I learned was: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles.
(This was back when Pluto was considered a planet.)
So the 1st letter in each word in the sentence corresponds with the 1st letter of each of the planets.
It makes things MUCH easier to remember.
Click through to the full article to lean more awesome memory tricks that you can use with your ADHD children to help them learn and remember things better.
More Parenting Advice: What creative ways have you come up with to help your ADHD be more successful in school and learn better?
6 Memory Tricks for ADHD Children [Additude]
