> As a parent you want to have deeper and meaningful conversations that allow for instruction, guidance, and mentoring. These things cannot happen if there is a clinical mental illness in the way.

If we are talking about ADHD, this is bullshit.

As someone that wasn’t medicated as a kid and had a lot of meaningful conversations, had mentors, learnt, went to college, built a career, screw your attitude.

If we are talking of that extreme of a case, that’s why medication is there.

But back to the original part, to me it just sounds like you also need to learn how to work with them.