If you’re the parent of a child with ADHD, you’re not alone. In fact, an estimated five percent of children have received this diagnosis,…
I Like My Kid Better When He’s Drugged (and other terrible thoughts I’ve had since he started meds)
We resisted medicating Lucas for his ADHD for three years. Like many parents before us, we took the try-everything-else-first route, which served a two-fold…
Top 10 Things To Love About A Husband With ADHD – by Dr. Samantha Rodman
And now for some brilliant/hilarious insights into the positives of life with with an ADHD husband, from the infuriatingly prolific Dr. Samantha Rodman: — —…
Good Mom, Bad Mom (I am both)
While cleaning up the files on my computer, I came across the image above. It was taken a couple of years ago when I…
10 Things People Need to STOP Saying About Kids With ADHD
We knew from the time Lucas was a toddler that he was different from other kids in his peer group. While the other preschool…
What You Don’t Know About That Wild, Unruly Child
You’ve seen him; in restaurants, he’s the loud one who rudely disrupts the other diners. On the first day of school, he’s the kid…
When One of Your Children Is Harder to Like Than the Other
I interrupt seven-year-old Lucas’ humming to warn him, as I do every morning, that he has one more minute to finish his cereal before I…
What happened when the angry barber was an a-hole to my kid
Today we went to cut my son Lucas’ hair for the first time in a year. He’s been sporting long, shiny locks that garner…
16 reasons I’m SO READY FOR SCHOOL TO BE DONE
Every year, at the end of summer, the internet implodes on itself because it can’t support the billions of articles and blog-posts written by…
Holy Crap My Kid is Awesome: conversations with Lucas
*He’s brushing my hair* Mom, how did life begin?Wow, babe – that’s a really big question. What do you think?*thinks for a while* I’m…