AIBU to ask for tips on coping with ADHD child on holiday

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Posting here for traffic really. Strongly suspect my 7 year old has ADHD. Teachers and ed psych in agreement. Had a recent diagnosis of dyslexia. He struggles to listen to and follow instructions and has very angry emotional outbursts regularly. Summer holidays has made things worse as has coming on holiday. It’s a constant battle with him at the moment and it’s making it hard to enjoy the holiday. We’ve booked the wrong sort of holiday really (city travelling with too much having to focus/concentrate/behave) and will learn from our mistakes. But in the meantime…

What are your tips for coping with behaviour and helping your ADHD kid regulate on holiday?

Divide and conquer. Don't set your kid up to fail - one of you do the city travelling sightseeing bit, and the other one take the kid to do something he'll actually enjoy. Then switch over for the next day.

Otherwise you're gonna spend the whole holiday telling your kid (nicely hopefully) to sit still and shut up and he'll finish the holiday feeling absolutely dog shit about himself, and about you, and you'll probably feel the same.

He's 7. Set him up for success, rather than preparing to mitigate his failures.