Transitions are not easy for anyone – you know, you’re engrossed in a project and somebody says, “It’s time to go.” You feel annoyed and maybe you ignore them so that you can complete the project, because this ability to delay the gratification of completing something, this ability to leave something and transition actually happens in your prefrontal cortex. And this prefrontal cortex is not fully developed in any child, in any person until you’re 26-years-old. And for a child who has neurological developmental gaps, who’s been labeled ADHD, this can be… transitioning can be particularly difficult, because their corpus callosum may not be working, so the two sides of their brain can’t communicate. And there’s not that connection to their prefrontal cortex. So I’ve three suggestions for transitions for any child, but particularly for a child who’s struggling and who’s been labeled ADHD. My first is to minimize transitions. My son had difficulty with ending reading time at bedtime, so we moved reading time to dinnertime. The second is to help your child with the transition and to leave a big buffer of time so that they have some space for upset. My third is to play your way through the transitions. Piggy back rides, pillow fights – even when you play your way through the transition, you can actually help your child to offload those feelings of upset and struggle as you’re helping them move through the transition that’s really on your timeframe, not theirs.