13 Things Kids (and Adults) Should Know About Their ADHD

1. ADHD is a medical condition, in which the body reabsorbs the chemical messenger between brain cells too quickly. 2. ADHD makes it easier to act without thinking about the consequences (that can be good or bad, depending on whether you are driving your bike, speaking in front of a group of people or playing as the team’s soccer goalie.) ADHD can make it easier to intensely focus on things that are...

Using Color Coding to Organize Your Children and Your Mind

As my kids get older, they chuckle at the ways I have compensated for my own ADHD overlaid upon their own ADHD challenges. In my thirties, as our family size exploded from 1 to 5 children,  I was often met with rude comments across the grocery aisle, like “do you know what causes it,” or “why are you having another one, you already have a boy and girl,”  or  ”you poor girl, how do...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Christopher Robin to Pooh, by A. A. Milne

Creating a ADHD Family Management Notebook

  One of the largest challenges of running a household, can be managing all the paper! What to keep, what to toss, where to file it, let alone filing it at all- can be an overwhelming series of tasks. Consider creating a home management notebook: create your “powermom handbook.” Start with a 1-1/2 inch 3 ring binder, a box of page protectors, and stick-on durable tabs.  Attach a tab to a page protector,...