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Feb
07
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 I do not think outside the box — I am a rule follower. I would have been mortified if I did not have my homework ready to hand in when I was a kid. This is why having ADHD children has been such a challenge for me. It would not have been so bad had they had the same symptoms and behaviors. That would have been awesome, but that’s not what happened. These ADHD boys of ours have totally different deficits — and totally different ways of being disorganized.
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Archive for the ‘ADHD & ADD’ Category
Blog Posts by Emmie
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May
12
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Labels:Â Do we love them or hate them? In our home we have ADHD, anxiety, depression, Bipolar Disorder, Attachment Disorder, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Obviously this is NOT how we introduce ourselves!
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Mar
24
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When you are in your fifties or sixties or even older and you take on the life-altering responsibility of raising your grandchild, life gets tough. Time for yourself or with your spouse is not easy to find. You tire more easily and sometimes feel like you have less patience. You may be on a limited budget. And the grandchild you’re rasing may have medical problems or be a troubled adolescent.
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Mar
17
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A new study assessing the effectiveness of a restricted elimination diet on the behavior of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was conducted in the Netherlands and Belgium.  They enrolled 100 children (4 – 8 years) and randomly assigned them to either a group that received this special diet or to a control group that was just given instructions for a healthy diet.  They were to follow the assigned protocol for 5 weeks.  They were assessed before and after using using several ADHD rating scales.  The assessment indicated that 64% of those using the elimination diet had a significant improvement in symptoms.  (A similar study was conducted in the UK in May of last year.) So what does this mean?
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Feb
07
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For the parents of a child with ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder—everyday tasks turn into battles—from getting the child out the door in the morning to getting him to bed at night. My son was diagnosed with ADHD at age 6, so I remember what it was like to have a daily tug of war with an attention disordered child all too well. Parents look for help everywhere. They may read one book after another and hear a parade of behavioral experts speak who give them parenting tips that don’t seem to work. The more books they read and experts they seek out, the worse their child’s behavior seems to get. | |||
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Jan
05
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According to research done at Michigan State University, nearly one million children in kindergarten in the United States are misdiagnosed with ADD/ADHD each year. For years, studies have shown that teachers will rate 50% of the children in the class with scores indicating possible ADD/ADHD when the prevalence is known to be no more than 10%.
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Dec
01
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My friend Cheryl over at A Little Bit Quirky recently wrote a post about the five minute warning and how it is often a cue for her child to engage in either a new activity or to intensify the interest in “whatever.” I find that my son is exactly the same way. For him, sometimes it is about the activity he is doing at the moment, sometimes it is almost a panic that he is NOT doing anything just then, and he just might lose out if he doesn’t start something “Right Now”.
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Nov
15
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School has been in session for awhile now. My granddaughter Maddy is in sixth grade now and she is expected to take on a lot more homework and a lot more responsibility. It’s a good life experience for her but it’s not easy to convince her of that. Maddy has ADHD and accomplishing anything seems to be such a chore. We are rewarding her when she 1) gets up on time and catches the bus, 2) finishes her homework (or at least gives it her best try before she asks for help), and 3) gets ready for bed in time to settle in before her second wind hits. Obviously, I can’t be with her during school to watch over her, so she also earns points when she remembers to write down her homework in her homework notebook for each class. She is also expected to unload the dishwasher each day and practice her flute and piano on alternating days. | |||
