'A few weeks ago I sat down to help him with his math homework and we both nearly ended up in tears.'
— and he's not pretending like it's easy. Although Mike knows he's an attentive father, he detailed how sometimes his frustrations get the better of him when it comes to parenting his 9-year-old son.
"I'm not a very good parent. Especially when it comes to my 9-year-old," he wrote."I'm sure I seem great online. I dress up for Halloween, we wrestle, I show him my favorite movies; we have fun. I do the hard stuff too, mornings, bedtime, etc. I'm involved, and participation and effort go a long way."Although Mike knows he's made tons of happy memories with his son, he admitted that sometimes he loses his cool.
In that moment, Mike sympathized with his son."Sitting there explaining fractions — at the end of a long day, when he was hungry, tired, and wishing he were watching TV or playing Minecraft — the full impact of his disorder hit me like a ton of bricks," he said."Parenting takes an immense amount of patience in the best circumstances and parenting. My patience is SUBhuman. That's DEFINITELY a flaw.
Mike continued, explaining that in his mind he isn't great with his 9-year-old, but at least he's aware of his mistakes."I do all the wrong things wrongly all the time. My wife tries to nudge me in the right direction and point out my mistakes, but I already know them all! I don't lack self-awareness. I just lack the ability to correct myself," he said.
At the end of the day, Mike knows that asking a child to manage a diagnosis like ADHD by themselves is a tall order, so he's going to try to manage his own expectations and reactions instead."Managing an overactive brain is a lot to ask from a 9-year-old, and I'm making it even harder by failing to manage my own," he said."But I'm trying. I'm aware of my shortcomings, and knowing IS half the battle. Hopefully I'll figure out the other half soon. For his sake.
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