Do you love someone with ADD or ADHD? If you do, you know the greatest gifts you can give them are your time, patience and understanding. But you can also help them learn coping skills and organizational skills that can improve their daily lives tremendously.
The key to gift giving to someone who has neurological differences is to do this it with love and acceptance, as well as appreciation for their gifts and unique and positive qualities. If you are a person who gives lots of unsolicited advice, then don’t give them one of these presents. It will come off as patronizing. Give them something lovely and meaningful, instead.
But if you are someone he or she turns to for support, one of these presents may be welcome.
This post is part of a longer article I posted last year: A Merry ADHD Christmas.
Presents That Show You Care and Understand
- A month-at-a-glance calendar with blocks big enough to write in plenty of notes and appointments. If the calendar or planner is for a woman, make sure it will fit in her purse.
- A mini-recorder (maybe for a keychain) so the person can record where he parked the car.
- A fun fidget for their purse, backpack or keychain: check out Tangle.
- A GPS system to keep them from getting lost in the car.
- Watches with easy-to-read faces are a good gift. You can’t have too many watches.
- A digital camera for recording events. People with ADHD tend to be visual learners.
- Those lavender scented heavy pads for shoulders.
- Massagers.
- Timers to remind them to take the cookies out of the oven, or to take a break.
- A relaxing music CD, such as classical music or instrumental jazz.
- ADHD self-help books.
- Nice pens and notepads for making lists. Post-it notes.
- Bubbles are relaxing for children, because it requires slow breathing.
- Thank you notes or other stationery, with custom printed return address labels and stamps.
- A tiny zen rock garden.
- An artificial plant (you don’t have to remember to water them).
- Key organizer (to mount by the front door)
- Desk organizers
- Closet organizers
- Cosmetic bags and jewelry organizers
- Ornaments organizers
- Checkbook organizer and budgeting tools.
- Write on/wipe off calendars and white boards
- First aid kits, car emergency kits
Tagged: ADD, ADHD, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Christmas presents for ADHD
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