ADHD symptom checklist for kids: the parent version
This free checklist walks you through 16 parent-observable behaviours across 3 groups: attention, hyperactivity-impulsivity, and everyday impact. Tick what you regularly see at home, and it builds a neutral summary you can print and bring to your GP, your paediatrician or a ReMed practitioner. It takes about 2 minutes.
It produces no score and no verdict, because no online checklist can tell you whether your child has ADHD. What it can do is turn months of scattered observations into 1 structured page, so your next conversation starts further ahead. If the conversation leads to questions about nutrition or sleep, nutritional testing and the way we work explain where we would look next.
Tick everything you regularly see at home, or hear about from school. There are no right answers and no score. Most children show some of these some of the time; you are simply recording what you observe.
Bring it to your appointment
Assessments rely heavily on what parents report, and tired memories under-sell real patterns. A printed page of specific, dated observations gives your GP or paediatrician something concrete to work from, and it gives you a script for the 10 minutes you actually get. Parents bring the same summary to school meetings and to our 60-minute initial consultations, where we take the full history from pregnancy to last week.
Medication or not, you still deserve to know why your child is struggling. That is the question our practitioners have spent 19 years investigating, alongside GPs and paediatricians, never instead of them.