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Interesting take. My oldest (2nd grade) struggled with soccer because it “too hard” by which he meant that he was frustrated that he wasn’t good right away. Our first season playing soccer a few years ago was a disaster. So my wife and I shrugged at the end of the season saying “we gave it a go.” Halfway through summer he started nagging when soccer was starting up again. We’ve now been doing it off and on for 3.5 years. We’ve focused on the municipal leagues where the stakes are lower and coaches focuses on love of the game.
That's great, I'm glad you stuck with it.
Martial arts, particularly traditional martial arts is amazing for people with ADHD. My girls have also loved acrobatics and Ariel silks/trapeze
All great ideas here
My ADHD son really loves downhill skiing. I ski with him most of the time but give him some time where he can cruise around the resort without the family. He loves the freedom and independence of that and is recharged and reengaged with the family when we meet back up.
Interesting. Completely agree, at least for our little guy. He doesn’t take an interest in team sports, doesn’t have the attention to abide by the rules. But he loves the swimming pool and I took him to a Spartan race this weekend and he loved it. The obstacles one to another gave him short-term targets; was great. Looking for a Muddy Buddy run next, and trying to find him some kind of parkour class or workshop type of thing appropriate for his age
I have ADHD and when I'd always space out during baseball games because of all the down time.
Yes, exactly
Ok, you have no idea how unbelievably thankful i am to have found you on youtube! My 6 1/2 year old son is getting to be rather difficult so im gonna be looking into your vids and HOPEFULLY i can get somewhere!!! Thank you for all the info you’ve provided 🙌🏻🥰
So glad to hear it, thank you!
I push my son (8) to try new things. Dad has been pretty opposed to it. I talk with the coaches and let them know as he has a few things going on. I have done the whole practice with him to make it fun and keep him doing them. He is great about me doing with him. I end up pushing him and other kiddoes. He can make any basket you put in front of him!!! Football in basketball hoop is the favorite right now. He can shoot and dribble a basketball so well. He can pass and catch a fottball, too. The running is where he lacks. So we play catch and mess around at home and with other kiddoes while his brother plays on a team. I can let him go and play with other kids without me this summer!! Im so excited for him and to watch him grow without me being right there. I know it's cause of the push to try things. I push, but I make it a fun push, lol. Soccer, no go, and basketball no go cause of his vision along with the running. Bowling was fun but cost a bit as much as he would want to do it. The wait being on a team right now wouldn't be the best, but he is doing better, and our school has a bolwing team !!
This definitely rings true with my son. Thanks for bringing a bit of a framework and some guidelines to thinking through choices around activities.
Absolutely true. My mom took me out of swimming because she couldn’t keep up with the practice schedule. I was so bummed out because I had really enjoyed that in elementary school. I tried a few other sports in middle school. Soccer, softball, and field hockey were all really hard for the reasons you mentioned. At summer sports camp, I did best at swimming and archery, competing against myself. I started exercising on my own. High school was two miles away, and I started walking to school. I would take the bus in the afternoon if I was too tired. If I had an after school activity, I might walk home though. I got involved in art, chorus and theater. There are so many options out there. My daughter loved Taekwondo.
Lol my son loves any and all sports, all the time. 😂
Agree with letting your kids try. My oldest with adhd loves soccer AND basketball and actually does well at both due to situational awareness and "seeing" the field/court. You'll never know til you try.
My daughters played field hockey from age 4 until college( my youngest has memory issues and adhd and is playing currently in college). The quick thinking helped so much that she actually succeeded beyond coaches expectations when a quick decision needed to be made. The rules of the game also helped her focus. Players run the equivalent of 5 miles in a regulation game. My daughters have coached, played in National title games( have won), travel/rec/school teams. My eldest daughter has great focus and played defense and loved the controlled chaos that came with that, while my youngest was able to play mid/forward/defense due to her ability to adapt quickly.
My kids have done very well with non-competitive jiujitsu and cross country. Thanks for the video!
Both of my kiddos have done well with Rock climbing in youth groups.
My son enjoys gymnastics and rock climbing. Trying to get him into swim now too.
All great for kids with ADHD.
I'm a mom with ADHD with 2 ADHD children and we love martial arts: my children love to do judo (incl. competitions) and im a trainer for capoeira. We love to move and we love the body control.
I love capoeira, I used to do it!
Trampolining has worked very well for my kid!
Great activity!
My son with adhd loves football, basketball, and lacrosse. It has been a huge game changer for us
Thank you Ryan. I’m new to your channel. I married into an adhd family. Meaning my spouse and son have adhd, son has both adhd and asd. I have found your information very helpful. Will look at your playlists. Have a fantastic day!
Welcome!
Swimming and ice hockey have been fairly successful for my sons. One also really enjoys ballet but I think that might be a bit of a fluke, because it doesn't really seem like an ADHD-friendly activity.
I signed up my 4 year old for soccer and he was ok for the first couple of games, the rest of the summer was him sitting in mommy's lap the entirety of the summer at the park while the other kids played. But we told him "you said you wanted to play soccer, so we're at least going to go to the soccer games - it also didn't help that the games were on tuesday and thursday at 6pm, afterschool. We usually put him in swimming lessons - because he has issues with water going on his face, so we're trying to get him to overcome that fear with his love for playing in the water. He's also doing drama classes now.
I'm hoping to put him into Judo one day because he loves that heavy body impact.
We've tried gymnastics & dance for my daughter. The only thing she LOVED was parkour. 🙌🏾
Golf, alpine skiing, swimming, riding bicycle and soccer. For youngest son - alpine skiing, swimming, riding bicycle, skateboarding - team competitive sports he quickly understood the game better than his coaches and PE teachers and his peers so would become frustrated.
Archery too
Totally agree that in general baseball can be tough due to all that downtime! Ninja and parkour, swimming, downhill skiing, gymnastics, and dance have been really great in our experience. Ice skating might be too once they get past the initial frustration of learning to stay up on the skates and get around. The situational awareness was also challenging for us with soccer. Basketball was so-so. Team sports can be tricky because they feel badly if they "space out" and let their team down. Cross country is ok if the friends are fun and motivational - can get boring and un-novel, too, though. Track can be good, but track meets are long, especially the older they get! I would imagine martial arts would be good for kids interested in that too. The nice thing with things like dance, ninja, and martial arts is that they're "with" other kids but not necessarily interacting in the same coordinated manner that team sports requires, and they get to be moving a lot, but somewhat more independently.
Fully agree with everything you said here. :)
I agree my 8 year old does really well with parkour. We had tried several sports with no luck before parkour. He has also started playing pickle ball and he has been enjoying playing it as well.
Interesting, he's the first one I've heard about playing pickleball.
Jui jitsu has ended up being amazing for our 11 yr old son. He started out doing kickboxing and wrestling first. I do not think he would have handled these well when he was younger. Taekwondo seemed to be good. He did that for a couple of years when he was 5.
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Both of mine loved karate!
I am totally agree with your words about team sports. That's why from the very beginning I noticed that it's not an option for my ADHD son. This year he tried swimming in group, he has not found common language with the trainer, who was pretty biased , and now he fears water.
Then he started taekwondo, he hates it, because he is not seeing it as sport, more like fun, so he is always in trouble with trainer, who requires physical results from him.
I do not know where else to sign him up😢 we not have a large choice like ninja or parkour ( honestly never heard of it😅). He tried painting, dance, origami, lego, none of it has worked. But he needs some extra activities to reduce screen time, it' s just we have not found the right one so far.
Maybe indoor rock climbing? Another one that depends on your area for availability.
@@RebelMime thanks for the idea, but he also has fear of heights, he is quite sensible with this issue. Anyway we do not have it in our area
@@dariastatchevschi822 Not all climbing involves heights -- the core is just trying to solve the problem of "How do you get from Point A to Point B?".
A kid who doesn't like heights would be likely to do fine with a traverse wall where you're primarily moving horizontally and never more than a few feet off the ground. Difficulty comes from either having the wall at an angle or aiming for a route that uses holds spaced further apart.
It's the sort of thing that you could even do at home by screwing a few boards onto a wall in their bedroom or a garage & then attaching some climbing holds.
If you have money to burn and tall ceilings, there are also climbing treadmills where as you go "up" the wall just moves down by an equal amount so you stay in roughly the same vertical position.
I find for 6 year old that skateboarding is life! She got her first skateboard at three and she loves it so much. That said, when we moved to Pennsylvania, we now had access to snow and so we tried snowboarding and she took to it like a pro at 6! So don't count out these two non conformist sports lol...
Definitely, snowboarding is expensive and not accessible to many people though.
Ah! Thank you for this video.
Oh wow, saying no! He is super negative about every sport I sign him up for. But he looks happy /endorphins while doing them.
My 3rd grader is in recreational basketball and he hates it. He says he wants baseball and soccer more but I imagine he will have the issues you mentioned in the video. Part of the reason is I want him to try things, so I'm glad you affirmed the new experiences.
Yes, he loves swimming! I wish we had year-round access to a pool, only about 2 months. Wish we had the ninja warrior type of stuff. We are in a small town.
The one I'm really struggling with is dance. This is his 2nd year of dance. Should I keep making my son do dance for another year? Or more? My son says he hates dance (just as he says he hates all the sports). But he is smiling and leading other kids in his dance group. And he admits he likes dancing at home, he just says he doesn't like having to do the dance that is prescribed. I feel like he should stay in dance except for the fact that he is asking not to and says he hates it. His negativity doesn't seem to match his actions though! But I don't want to be the mom who is always forcing him to do things he states he hates.
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What are your thoughts on ADHD kids participating in martial arts? He is 6 and is in Tae Kwan do and loves swimming. He is in soccer and spaces out during downtime.
My ADHD son has been doing TKD for almost 3 yrs and enjoys it overall. I think he likes that it's only competitive when he *chooses* it to be (for ex, choosing to go to Sparring class or competing in tourney as opposed to his "belt level " class). He also has zero interest in team sports, at least so far.
My kids have done really well with non-competitive jiujitsu (the Gracie method)! We go several times a week and they look forward to it every single time!
Generally speaking in your experience, how was track and field or cross country been for adhd kiddos?
As a person that did both all through school, practice will probably be fine, but there's a LOT of downtime at track meets. At the most extreme with sprints, you could be waiting around a couple hours to do your thing for 10 seconds. You'd definitely want the kid in multiple races or field events.
A LOT of down time during track meets, similar to swim meets. May be great during practice though.
I did cross country & distance events in middle school / high school / college.
I enjoyed it and found it helpful.
The 2 big downsides that I found:
- Team practices were great, but I struggled with staying in shape during the winters. The combination of lack of structure & hating treadmills didn't work for me.
- It can be really hard on your body. I injured my knee near the end of high school and college workouts where we did stuff like run up ski hills just made things worse over time. I kept falling further behind peers and lost most of the structure & support that helped keep me going. Eventually I gave up trying.
I had about a 10 year period where I did pretty much nothing for exercise. Eventually I had a friend suggest I try mountain biking & another friend invite me to go cross-country skiing.
I really wish I'd gotten introduced to lower impact activities for cardio sooner -- both to have avoided overuse injuries and to have been able to build up structure / support / connections to community early to make it easier to keep participating into adulthood.
I still struggle with what to do during the winter in the in time in between "warm enough to ride bikes" & "enough snow to ski", but at least my knees aren't holding me back now.
That's exactly what I've seen the issue to be with track and field. Thanks for sharing.
My ADHD daughter loves swing, she's all times hanging around swing, is it ok?
sure
Im a mom of a 13 year old boy. He’s pretty oppositional for non preferred activities, major avoider for emotional and sensory overwhelming things and he really doesn’t like transitions (which includes new situations). Will he be such a disagreeable adult like he is as a child? I fear for his future wife, and work life. Is there a tunnel end to this in his adolescence?
You need to learn to stop accommodating his inflexibility and avoidance or it will get worse over time. In regards to your question - yes this will affect his life and make it more challenging, and given his age, you are nearing the "inflexibility tipping point" which I have a video about here.
The videos I have on the topic of parental accommodation would probably be most helpful to you here.
how about cricket?
I'm American mate, I don't know anything about cricket. :)
My son loves kung-fu!
As an adult with ADHD, I've found mountain biking to work well:
- There's aren't many "rules" to memorize -- as long as you don't go the wrong way on a one-way trail or take shortcuts during a race, the rest is just trail etiquette.
- It requires a constant base level of focus and attention -- much fewer opportunities to "zone out".
- It keeps both hands occupied -- this can also help with BFRB (body-focused repetitive behaviors), which can be common comorbidities with ADHD.
- It's low impact -- much easier to keep participating as an adult.
- It works well as both an individual and a group activity.
With my kids, the adjustments I've found that keep their attention:
- Ride at skills parks, pump tracks, or trails with shorter loops -- on longer trails it can be tougher for them to conceptualize how much time / distance is left to the end
- Keep rides short enough that you're stopping while they're still having fun -- don't push them until they're exhausted
- Pack lots of snacks -- especially when they're younger
- Make sure their helmets & gloves are comfortable -- kids with sensory issues can be a lot more sensitive to issues of fit
I think it's a great idea, however it's not accessible to many families and can be cost prohibitive.