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		<title>How I Got My Zing Back: An ADHD Mom’s Happiness Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while, so please be gentle to this newly re-engaged blogger….
I went in search of my “zing” during my writing hiatus.  Aging parents, struggling students, emotional pre-teens, needy toddlers, and a traveling husband took its pound of flesh- and my “zing” with them… In my frantic scurry to find happiness again, I came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2010/05/20/how-i-got-my-zing-back-an-adhd-mom%e2%80%99s-happiness-project/</link>
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		<title>The Joy of ADHD?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At my house there are 4 children diagnosed with hyperactive attention deficit disorder and one toddler who loves to imitate their behavior. My house is the house you read about in those inspirational emails, sent to make a mother of 3 boys to help her feel better about her boys&#8217; behavior and her parenting style.
Yes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2010/01/24/the-joy-of-adhd/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for the Fall with Prescription Drug Permission Forms</title>
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How many times have you gotten a phone call from school, in which an overly polite almost timid voice said “Ahhh, Mrs. M., ahhh, your daughter appears to be struggling this morning…. Ahh, did your daughter take her medicine, this morning?”  Suddenly, you are filled with dread and guilt….guilt that you got distracted and forgot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/05/26/preparing-for-the-fall-with-prescription-drug-permission-forms/</link>
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		<title>Striking a Balance: Summer Survival Tips for Families Managing ADHD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One major issue with ADHD and summer vacations is the bored factor. Once the novelty of having all that free-time-to-do-anything wears away, what to do with all that free time becomes a problem.  On the other hand, over-scheduling and over-planning the summer can lead to burn-out and irritability for both parents and children.  The art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/04/13/striking-a-balance-summer-survival-tips-for-families-managing-adhd/</link>
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		<title>Teach a Child to Fuel Their Passions: Steps to Making a Summer Contract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer with an ADHD child can be wrought with the symptoms of boredom: whining, teasing, and  irritability.  Turn your summer into a teaching opportunity.  Pre-script your summer with a list of boredom- breakers in the form of a summer contract between you and your child, and in so doing teach them how to make and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/04/11/teach-a-child-to-fuel-their-passions-steps-to-making-a-summer-contract/</link>
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		<title>Life as Sandwich Fixings: Facing Care for a Parent with Dementia &amp; a Family with ADHD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I have been a mom of few words, few articles, and little enthusiasm.  I must apologize.  I have recently joined the ranks of 44 million Americans who provide care to an adult older than 18 years of age.  I have added another job description to the power-mom label &#8211;caretaker of a parent with dementia.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/04/10/life-as-sandwich-fixings-facing-care-for-a-parent-with-dementia-a-family-with-adhd/</link>
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		<title>Arguing with Teenagers: Don’t Take the Bait</title>
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It’s a popular phrase in my house: “Don’t take the bait.” We have variances on it including “don’t be a fish,” “some one is fishing,” and the most popular “looks like you’re going to land a big one.” With 5 kids in the house, several of who are close in age, they joke, tease, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/04/06/arguing-with-teenagers-don%e2%80%99t-take-the-bait/</link>
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		<title>Overcoming Reading Anxiety: Read to the Clip</title>
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Inspiring reluctant readers is a challenge- a challenge that becomes bigger and bigger as students become older and reading requirements become larger and more frequent.   Let’s be honest, when you look at it from a student’s point of view, here comes an authority figure handing you, the non-book lover, a huge book which you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/03/21/overcoming-reading-anxiety-read-to-the-clip/</link>
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		<title>Raising a Reader with or without ADHD</title>
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I don’t think anyone would argue against the idea that reading is critical to a child’s life success. Reading provides the foundation for school achievement in all the other academic subjects, including math, science, social studies, writing, and foreign languages. What is discussed far less, is how reading can provided insulation from life’s adversity- be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/03/20/family-read-aloud-time-the-secret-to-raising-a-reader-with-or-without-adhd/</link>
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		<title>Math Problem Helps: Use of Graph Paper</title>
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Children with ADHD often struggle with both poor handwriting and poor organizational skills, which can result in squashed, misaligned columns of numbers.  Often math problems are wrong because the student arranged their columns of numbers incorrectly, not because the student did not know their math facts or how to do the problem correctly. Graph paper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/03/19/math-problem-helps-use-of-graph-paper/</link>
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