Is What You Think You Know About ADHD Actually True?
Take this quick True or False Quiz to bust common myths—and learn what every parent should know.
ADHD is one of the most misunderstood childhood diagnoses. From sugar to screen time, medication to misbehavior, it’s easy to fall for outdated or flat-out wrong information.
This quiz will help you:
✅ Separate fact from fiction
✅ Spot early signs you might be missing
✅ Understand what actually works (and what doesn’t)
Take the quiz and get a free summary of what the research really says—plus tips for moving forward if you’re concerned about your child.
Forthcoming:
Raising Your ADHD Child:
with Love, Laughter, and Neuroscience.
In her forthcoming book, Dr. Ellis provides time-tested solutions for everyday problems that come up in families of children with ADHD—with step-by-step instructions, scripts to follow, and examples from families she has worked with over a 45 year career. It is written with wit and warm-hearted humor, illustrating strategies that are backed up by research in behavior theory and neuroscience.
You can go to the specific chapter that addresses the problem you are having and find answers in minutes. Additional chapters from the field of positive psychology show you how to maintain a positive parent-child relationship during stressful times.
Advance praise for Raising Your ADHD Child
"Dr. Ellis provides practical strategies to help families who are raising a child(ren) with ADHD. She even adds suggested scripts to help parents know what to say as well as the tone in which to speak to their child to have a greater likelihood of getting the desired result. She educates parents and families about ADHD and helps remove the shame "so that problem-solving can occur instead of continued paralysis, avoidance, or the use of ineffective methods that just frustrate parents and children."
– Dr. Samantha Jordan, Insight Psychological Solutions, Marietta, Georgia
“This book deserves to be on the night stand of every parent with an ADHD child! Dr. Ellis writes in clear, everyday language and makes scientific research applicable to daily life. She provides a treasure trove of wise, practical and, most importantly, doable suggestions for making life easier and more satisfying for your child and your family. Dr. Ellis presents tried-and-true suggestions and gets specific in how to implement them. The book is organized so parents can easily find the topic and get to the intervention quickly. This is the ultimate reference book for parents raising ADHD children which will help guide them from their child’s childhood to adulthood.”
– William L. Buchanan, Ph.D., ABPP, North Point Psychology
Co-author The Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy
From the blog:
Previous Books from Dr. Ellis:
"This most important book explains to today's parent the cause of many problems they are having. Even more important, it gives them the steps they need to follow to overcome these problems. This book points the way toward what we should all be doing to raise the next generation to be more responsible and happy."
— Stephen W. Garber, Ph.D., Psychologist and coauthor of Good Behavior, If Your Child Is Hyperactive, and Monsters Under the Bed
“Elizabeth M. Ellis has done for the field of divorce and children what William Hodges did a decade ago with his volume Interventions for Children of Divorce. Dr. Ellis has taken us through the research findings of the 1990s and into the 21st century by documenting what has been learned in the past ten years.
In this volume, Dr. Ellis has compiled research techniques and approaches in some of the critical decision-making areas that comprise high-conflict divorce. Importantly, she also discusses some of the remediation programs, such as parent coordination, special mastering, and other interventions, that address the much-needed corrective process of protecting children from what we now know are the harmful effects of high-conflict divorce.”
— Carla B. Garrity, Ph.D., and Mitchell A. Barris, Ph.D., authors of Children of Divorce and Caught in the Middle