Ty Pennington

About Ty Pennington

Tygert Bruton "Ty" Pennington (b. October 19, 1964, Atlanta, Georgia) is a carpenter and TV personality.

He is most famous for being the host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition which currently airs on ABC. Previously, Pennington was a carpenter on the TLC reality show Trading Spaces. Currently he manufactures a line of Home Storage Solutions furniture with the Howard Miller Clock Company.

Pennington was considered an unruly child and had difficulty performing throughout school.[citation needed] "I would strip down naked, and swing from the blinds in my classroom as a child and swear along with that if I didn't get my way," he said in an interview for E! network. He was diagnosed with hyperactivity (then the term for ADHD) when he was seven by his mother, who was in graduate school in psychology, and by his pediatrician, who didn't "believe" in Ritalin, so it wasn't tried at the time. Instead, Yvonne Pennington designed a system called "A Token Economy" to end his daily trips to the principal's office and his disruptive behavior in class. The Token Economy was used all the way through his school career. It wasn't until he was seventeen years old that he was treated with medication. He is now a spokesperson for the organization ADHD Experts on Call, and manages his condition with Adderall XR . His mother, Dr. Yvonne Pennington, is a psychologist who focuses on the treatment of ADHD and depression. She teaches other parents how to raise ADHD kids with or without medication.[citation needed]