Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Teens tell fibs more often than parents wish. Some of them are pre-meditated and manipulative, but often they are a primal response to fear, especially in students with learning differences like ADHD.<br> <br> <br> <br> In this episode, Gretchen walks you through her notes from a great presentation she heard at last November’s International ADHD Conference. The presentation was called “Beyond Fight, Flight & Freeze: Is There a Fourth F?” and was presented by Barbara Brikey Hunter and Monica Hassal. <br> <br> <br> <br> Specifically, she shares Hunter and Hassal’s thoughts about:<br> <br> <br> <br> * How the original three F’s of Flight/Fright/Freeze are connected to the nervous system’s primal response to fear, and why Fib might be the fourth F* How to talk to students about the effect that primal responses have in the brain* The acronym SPEED and how it represents fiver different reasons why students might be afraid in the moment, prompting them to Fib* The acronyms WIN and COOL, which represent how to support both the student and the parent in responding a fib when it’s taken place* Some specific phrases parents and educators can say when “catching” a student in a fib* And more!<br> <br> <br> <br> For more information about these presenters, please visit <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-hunter-29bb891b/">Barbara Briskey Hunter’s LinkedIn Profile</a>, and <a href="http://www.connectadhd.com">Monica Hassal’s website www.connectadhd.com</a>. <br> <br> <br> <br> Also note: the conference where Gretchen heard them present was the <a href="https://add.org/adhdcon2018/">2018 International Conference on ADHD</a> in St. Louis, sponsored by ACO, ADDA and CHADD.<br>
