I now have my own blog on Additude.com! Really excited about the opportunity to reach that many more parents and teachers! If you have topic suggestions that are centered around education for kids with ADHD, let me know! See link below to read my first post!
Read more →I keep coming back to the same conclusion: The right school can make a WORLD of difference in your student’s life. I want to go out on a limb here and say that it is better to blow that college fund on a great middle/high school than to hang onto that money. The foundation of self-esteem & love of learning is cemented early. Be vigilant about your child’s school! If you’ve got a great school – tell us about it!
Read more →My two daughters are about as opposite as they can get, so Natasha loves to read and Annie, eh…not so much. About the only thing they seem to have in common is ADHD! So i’ve been doing a bit of research about how to get Annie more
Read more →“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
For the last week, I have been working on another book. Here’s the funny thing, I cannot spell, my grammar stinks and I struggle with reading…and this is my fifth book! Thank God for spell check and editors! Don’t let anything get in the way of you accomplishing the things you want to accomplish. Where there’s a will, there’s away! 
Have a great weekend everyone!
This week, I am all about laughter & finding joy & hope in tough times. How else do we put one foot in front of the other, when the going gets tough if not to have an occasional light-hearted moment? If life is bumpy right now, find a way to relieve the pressure by participating in something that you know will put a smile on your face.
And I have to share this. Every time I watch I can’t help but start cracking up. Laughter is contagious, so if your life is good, go infect someone!!
Read more →Most people might think that giving a project to someone with ADD is a great way to make sure that it won’t get done. That we would work on it for a few moments until we get distracted by something and that would be that. Nothing can
Read more →A lesson that I’ve learned over and over is that repetition works. If I want to be good at something, I need to do it a ton of times.
I grew up with learning disabilities and problems with reading comprehension (a lot of people who have ADHD also have Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities).
Read more →I once met a kid who had an interesting game that he played when he was bored. I forget whether he had a name for it, but the local authorities did: breaking and entering.
I didn’t meet this kid at a jail. He never stole anything. He just broke into people’s homes to see if he could. He loved taking risks, and since his town didn’t offer much by way of entertainment, he started inventing his own.
Read more →At an event in Southern Indiana, I met Blake. He was a kid who had more energy than he knew what to do with, and that got him into trouble. He had no outlet for this energy, so it built up until it exploded during a time of frustration. He never hurt anyone but himself by punching a wall or doing something destructive or impulsive.
Read more →Well, if you’re a Green Bay Packer fan, you may have problems narrowing down the answer… (you caught me – I’m a die-hard Vikings fan). 
I pose the above question to people wherever I go and the overwhelming number of responses is probably the one the one you were thinking of as well: Us! We beat ourselves up more than anyone else in our lives. We throw mental self-punches for a variety of reasons; we start young and do it often:
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