If your child has time blindness, these scenarios may sound familiar: It’s time to leave, so your teen jumps in the shower or starts making a meal. It’s 9 p.m. and your tween just sent you a frantic text because they need snacks for tomorrow’s class party. It’s dinnertime, and your teen is freaking out because they swear their teacher “just posted” a project that is due tomorrow.
ADHD expert Russell Barkley, Ph.D., describes time blindness as the impaired ability to sense time passing and to use that sense to guide behavior and actions. For many kids with ADHD, this impairment becomes most visible during the tween and teen years—just when everything else gets more complicated: Disparate teachers across multiple subjects. Assignments tracked through hard-to-navigate online portals. A developmentally appropriate push for privacy and independence.
All of this makes it harder for parents and teachers to provide consistent, hands-on support. And yet the demands keep growing. As tweens and teens move toward high school, college, and beyond, the ability to manage time becomes essential and the stakes get higher.
In this webinar, clinical psychologist Suzanne Allen, Psy.D., will help parents, teachers, coaches, and other caring adults better understand the behaviors in their tweens and teens that are rooted in time blindness. By building understanding and compassion, adults will be better equipped to support young people in gaining self-awareness, collaborating on solutions, and developing the practical skills they need to thrive now and in the years ahead.
In this webinar you will learn: