08/24/2026
Your kid isn’t ignoring you. Their prefrontal cortex just isn’t done building yet.🚧
That’s the part of the brain responsible for impulse control, listening, and “doing the thing you were just asked to do.” In kids with ADHD, it develops later and slower. So when they don’t respond the first (or third) time, it’s not defiance. It’s biology.🧬
Once you see it as a brain gap instead of a behavior problem, everything shifts, including how you respond.
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