Life Skills for Teen Boys with ADHD

He is not bad at life. He is running different hardware.

Nobody hands a teenage boy the manual. He is expected to already know how to get out the door on time, start the assignment, ask for the raise, apologise without grovelling, and not lose his keys nine times a week. For a boy with ADHD, none of that is obvious, and being told to try harder has never once worked.

Written by a certified special education teacher with over a decade in classrooms, this is a practical field guide of 110 skills for boys aged 13 to 18. It is not a workbook and not a parenting book. It speaks to the reader directly, with respect and without condescension.

Every skill gets one page, and every page has the same four parts:

The book also includes a Find It Fast index organised by how he feels rather than by topic, and six worked examples: a resume with no job history, two emails that get answered, an annotated pay stub, a budget with real numbers, and a fill-in worksheet for job interviews.

Ideal for: parents and grandparents buying a gift a teenager will actually open, school counsellors, special education teachers, therapists, and libraries serving neurodivergent teens and their families.

About the author: Richard Bass is a certified special education teacher and bestselling author with more than 100,000 copies sold across over thirty titles on ADHD, autism, and social and emotional learning. His flagship title, The ADHD Parenting Guide for Boys, is a Mom's Choice Gold Award winner available in four languages. He spent his career with the boys this book is written for: bright, funny, capable kids who kept being told they were not trying when nobody had shown them a system built for the brain they actually have.