07/11/2026
Your son can't sit through ten minutes of homework. He loses the thread of a conversation before it's finished. Take him outside with a baseball, though, and he'll throw and catch for two hours without a single reminder. That is not a contradiction -- it is actually a clue about how the ADHD brain works. Our post on hyperfocus and physical activity explains what is going on.
Your son can’t sit through ten minutes of homework. He forgets what he walked into a room to get. He loses the thread of a conversation before it’s finished. Take him outside with a baseball, though, and he’s locked in — throwing, catching, throwing again — for an hour or two, without a si...