ADD Moms

I did something I shouldn’t have tonight; I ate a banana split. Well, not the whole thing - just enough to make me sick. I feel as stuffed as the traditional Thanksgiving turkey. Now, why did I do that? Wouldn’t you think a grown woman would know better? Well, the fact is, I do know better, but I did it anyway. Sometimes ADD is like that - acting first and thinking later.

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It occurred to me, as it sometimes does, that my most recent post might not have seemed as relevant to you as it did to me. There is a reason for that - it’s the way the ADD mind works. I made an analogy recently about ADD and hyperlinks on a website - how you are at one site, see a link for another site and click on it, do it a few more times, and end up someplace entirely different than where you began.

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I’ve just discovered a cool new toy for my website: it’s called My Chingo. You’ll find it on the right hand sidebar - look for the bright green box. What it does is allow you to leave me a 2 minute audio comment - voicemail, if you will - as an alternative to emailing me. (It also lets you add a short written comment.) All you need is a microphone on your computer. Give it a try!

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Here are some more specific ideas for managing the common things that kids with ADD/ADHD forget:

• Homework assignments: a planner is a great idea, and good preparation for life in general. See the post from last time regarding using one. Another idea is to involve the teacher(s) in the process, if they’re willing. At the end of each class period, have your child stop by the teacher’s desk for a couple of seconds - just long enough for them to check the planner and initial it. You could also implement something similar with a friend from each class who’s willing to help, assuming of course that the friend is reliable.

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The other day, as I was busy doing other things, several thoughts came into my head; ideas for things that I wanted to share here. Because I was busy on other aspects of my business, and I was really having a productive day, I didn’t stop to write anything down. I was actually pretty fired up about what I wanted to say. In fact, the ideas were coming so fast that it reminded of something I had read once, about how the ADD mind is like a series of websites with hyperlinks. You go to the first one, and see a hyperlink to something you’re interested in, so you click it, and then the same thing happens with the next site. It keeps happening over and over until you’re miles away from where you intended to be.

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