A webinar for Caregivers and people who work with Children with ADHD JAMES GREENBLATT, MD
Date & Time: October 18th at 7:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm PT
Instructor: James Greenblatt, MD
Your child has ADHD—but sometimes the hardest part isn’t the attention problem. It’s the emotions.
A small frustration becomes an enormous reaction. “No” can trigger a meltdown. Homework ends in tears. Your child goes from happy to furious in seconds—or becomes overwhelmed by situations other children seem able to manage.
Parents often wonder: Is this ADHD? Is it anxiety? Is my child just overly sensitive? And why does everything seem to become so big, so quickly?
Emotional dysregulation is common in children with ADHD. But simply labeling the behavior doesn’t explain why it’s happening. A child’s ability to regulate emotions can be influenced by brain development, sleep, nutrition, nutrient status, blood sugar, stress, sensory overload, medications, genetics, and other biological and environmental factors.
Instead of only asking: “How do we stop this behavior?” We can ask a different question: “What might this behavior be telling us?”
Join James Greenblatt, MD, child and adult psychiatrist, author of Finally Focused, and a longtime leader in nutritional and functional psychiatry, for a parent-friendly look at ADHD, emotional regulation, and the biology that may be contributing to your child’s biggest reactions.
We’ll explore:
- Why is my child so emotional? Understanding the connection between ADHD and emotional regulation.
- Why can tiny frustrations trigger enormous reactions? What may be happening in the ADHD brain when a child becomes overwhelmed.
- Why are some days so much harder than others? How sleep, hunger, stress, overstimulation, and other factors can change a child’s ability to regulate.
- Could biology be amplifying the behavior? How nutritional, metabolic, and other biological factors may influence mood and emotional control.
- Why doesn’t discipline always work? When challenging behavior may reflect a child struggling to regulate rather than simply refusing to cooperate.
- What should parents look for? How understanding patterns and potential contributors can help families ask better questions and find more individualized support.
Behavior is something we see, but it isn’t always the place the story begins.
When a child is struggling, our instinct is often to focus on stopping the behavior. But sometimes the more useful question is: Why is my child having such a hard time regulating in the first place?
Understanding the why can change what parents see—and what they do next.