{"id":29648,"date":"2025-09-18T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29648\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:42:08","slug":"everything-is-more-stressful-more-magnified-louder-the-highs-lows-and-hurdles-of-raising-kids-when-you-have-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/29648\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everything is more stressful, more magnified, louder\u2019 \u2013 the highs, lows and hurdles of raising kids when you have ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nADHDers can experience restlessness, impulsivity and struggles with executive function, but their love and joy and playfulness can also make them wonderful parents\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joanne Pasternak, who has ADHD and is pictured here with her daughter Sadie, noticed 'the wheels fell off a bit more' after the birth of each child. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/06406a21-c1f0-4be2-8677-e40c31f9b5d3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joanne Pasternak, who has ADHD and is pictured here with her daughter Sadie, noticed &#8216;the wheels fell off a bit more&#8217; after the birth of each child. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">No one said having kids was easy \u2013 for every toothy grin and charming quirk, there\u2019s a sleepless night, the chaos of the local playgroup and the insistence on reading The Gruffalo eight times over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But what happens when your neurotype makes the challenges that every parent deals with a little more challenging?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADHDers can experience restlessness, impulsivity and struggles with executive function, but their love and joy and playfulness can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-29648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}