Hi Everyone, if you have a struggling student I encourage you to check out my blog/site; simply, I barely graduated high school and then went on to successfully fail out of multiple colleges. I believed my ADHD and dyslexia were my downfall, I made it my passion to figure out a strategy that would work for me. Professionally, I'm a Sr. Vice President for a multi billion dollar organization and academically I have a doctorate and have been active in academia for years at numerous colleges. The reality is within our culture we logically push young people in to college because that's what society says is acceptable behavior; however, academia is a business based upon fill ratios to achieve financial targets. To mitigate stress, financial debt, and increase the value of your time it's critical to utilize college in terms of how you need the specific degree to achieve your life style goal. Every year I work with a lot of young graduates with ADHD who are struggling/lost but loaded with debt. I strongly advocate for fully understanding your pre college approach and having the child showcase their strategy in multiple ways. This drastically reduces their risk and increases their confidence. I'm not saying my process is the best, but it's worked for me and others and if you have a few minutes and want to read some of my short blogs I hope their beneficial.
Personally, my frustration as a struggling child with ADHD and dyslexia was that I received continual advice, motivation, and other information but there was a gap in role modeling from someone who was successful and precisely how they accomplished it. Additionally, the college process was not personally beneficial in terms of my strategy and where I wanted to be in life and how monetarily giving my time/money was going to equate to a job. For example, the average graduate with Business Management or Business Administration regularly is clueless to what the professional job market is in regards to applying their degree and how to create a competitive advantage.
I rarely share this, but a few parents asked me. I do the blog and strategyrhino because it's fulfilling, I lived the failure and my parents lived the frustration and now I enjoy helping others in my free time.
Boarding School for ADHD
Transitioning into High School
504 plan in High School
Before/After School Care for ADHD/ODD
