The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook
A comprehensive guidebook for parents of children with ADHD.
The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook is a practical, compassionate guide to help you understand ADHD, respond effectively to your child’s behaviour and create a calmer more connected home. Parenting comes with daily challenges that can leave you exhausted, isolated and questioning whether you’re doing enough to help your child succeed. Raising a child with ADHD can feel like you’re navigating uncharted territory without a compass. This handbook will show you the path forward.
Written by Vivian Dunstan, founder of ADHD Support Australia
This comprehensive guide blends over a decade of community and professional expertise, lived experience and the latest research to bring you real-world ADHD strategies and insights. Implement these science-backed, parent-tested steps today to support and nurture your child, your family and yourself.
In this ADHD handbook you’ll discover how to:
- Encourage your child’s strengths for improved self-esteem and school success
- Take a holistic approach to nutrition and lifestyle – supporting focus, sleep, mood and wellbeing
- Manage screen time, build social skills and nurture healthy online and offline relationships
- Craft a family-centred parenting philosophy that creates positive dynamics and supports every family member
- Look after your own wellbeing while parenting a neurodivergent child.
Whether your child has just been diagnosed, or you’ve been navigating ADHD for years, The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook will give you the tools, strategies and insights you need to understand and respond to your child’s unique needs.
Early Recognition
The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook reached the #1 Best Seller position on Amazon in the Disability category, and has also ranked in the Top 10 Best Sellers in Parenting Books on Children with Disabilities prior to its official release.
I’m deeply grateful for the early support from families and professionals, and encouraged that this book is already finding its way to the readers it was written for.
What Experts are Saying
The Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook has been generously endorsed by leading clinicians, researchers, and practitioners in the field of ADHD, child development, and mental health.
These endorsements reflect the book’s foundation in evidence-informed practice, compassionate parenting approaches, and real-world clinical experience — and the shared hope that this resource will support families and the professionals who care for them.
“Vivian Dunstan’s Ultimate ADHD Parenting Handbook delivers on what its title promises.
Vivian provides an accurate picture of ADHD and its challenges with obvious compassion
for children and teens with ADHD, and the families striving to support them.
This picture informs the wise, effective and user-friendly parenting strategies provided
throughout this book.
Congratulations on an impressively comprehensive and useful guide that
will undoubtedly be a great help for innumerable households living with ADHD.”
J. Russell Ramsay, Ph.D., ABPP
psychologist, author of six books on ADHD,
including The Adult ADHD Tool Kit,
Adult ADHD & Anxiety Workbook & Once I Get Started