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ADHD Parenting Blog« Recent Blog PostsArchives: August 2008
We do the best we can to protect our ADHD children, but sometimes they endanger themselves right in front of our eyes and we can't react fast enough. That damn ADHD impulsiveness led Nat to burn her hand last night, and her tears nearly broke my heart. Every night after her bath, without fail, Nat climbs out of the tub and onto the bathroom counter, where she exams, picks, and squeezes various scabs until they bleed. Last night, she reached up and touched a hot light fixture, leaving a dime-sized oozy burn on...Continue Reading »
Getting ready for school picture day added some stress to our already ADHD-troubled night time routine. Today is school picture day at Natalie’s school. When I dropped Nat off this morning the hallways were filled with little girls in fancy dresses, their hair in barrettes or pretty ponytails. And then, there was Nat. Getting ready for school pictures added some stress to our already ADHD-troubled bedtime routine. As the expert recommend, I set about laying out the clothes Nat would wear the...Continue Reading »
Sharing ADHD stories with friends is a great outlet for venting my parenting frustrations. My friend Joani emailed me a link to a funny back-to-school post on the Special Education Law blog: “You know you’ve been the parent of a child with special needs too long when…” by Lori Miller Fox. I certainly could relate to it! Thanks for the laughs, Lori! My experience with the Exorcist led me to be especially fond of this quip: “You...Continue Reading »
Sometimes my ADHD daughter likes to turn up the drama just for my benefit--she almost got away with it. In my last parenting ADHD children blog post I wrote about how, due to her ADHD, Natalie has problems with change. I predicated that even though she was excited about school, and thought she’d love her new teacher, she’d flip out when she got home after her first day. Unfortunately, I was right. When I picked Natalie up from daycare Thursday afternoon, after...Continue Reading »
I have mixed feelings about the start of school. I welcome the peace and quiet, but dread my ADHD daughter's adjustment period. I can’t decide how to start this post: Option #1: School started this morning. Thank God! I’m home, alone, for the first time in 3 months. I love my kids, but I can’t function without a little time at home to regroup. Option #2: School started this morning. Oh my God! Another transition! It’ll take Natalie a good month to adjust. That means that...Continue Reading »
Endless ADHD generated chaos doesn’t do it for me. I'm teetering dangerously close to the brink of losing it and I need a weekend alone to get it together. I’ve been feeling more overwhelmed than usual for the last few weeks. It’s been a solid week since I’ve posted to my Parenting ADHD Kids blog, and that’s just one of the many things I’ve neglected. My hair is three weeks past needing to be cut, and let’s not even talk about gray roots. I think I’m running my car out of oil again...Continue Reading »
Expecting a hungry kid with ADHD to transition from daycare to car ride, right before medicine time, is just plain stupid. In earlier posts I wrote that big ‘ol bites marked, literally, two out of the three over-stimulating outings we’ve attempted as a family so far this summer. Now I’ll tell you about the third. We picked Natalie up from daycare on a Friday evening, and headed straight to Indianola to meet our dinner club friends at the Hot Air Balloon Classic. What’s...Continue Reading »
Not everyone understands my sweet, charming, perfectly acceptable though not-quite-typical ADHD kid. Once again, I’m writing from Lake Okoboji. This time, we’re on our family vacation—Don, Aaron, Natalie and I. We’re staying at Bridges Bay, a new family resort. It has an indoor water park and an outdoor pool. Great entertainment for busy kids. Unfortunately, Nat had a bad experience last night—our first night here. I wasn’t right there when it happened, but from her description...Continue Reading »
This morning, I met another ADDitude subscriber and mom to an ADHD kid - one of Ames' very best teachers! Turns out she's one of us. My fall issue of ADDitude arrived in yesterday’s mail. I had no idea that, as I paged through it last night, another mom, just a few blocks away, was doing the same. When I dropped Natalie off at summer school this morning (2 days and counting!), I ran into one of Ames’ not just acceptable, but really good teachers that I mentioned in a previous post...Continue Reading »
Summer-event crowds, noise, smells, and heat are a killer combination for Natalie, who has major problems with sensory issues. “Can we go to the State Fair?” Aaron asked. “Please?” The State Fair is a big deal in Iowa, and one of the many ways I’ve deprived my 11-year-old son of a full life (others include not buying him a Wii or a cell phone) is by not taking him to it, at least not since he’s been old enough to remember. The state fair means heat...Continue Reading »
Natalie, we thought, was maturing to the point that we could leave her unsupervised in the house for a few minutes. We thought wrong. Natalie spent the night with a friend on Saturday. She left around 5:00 Saturday evening. Don, Aaron, and I spent a peaceful evening grilling out for dinner, then enjoying a fire in our outdoor fireplace late into the night. We slept late on Sunday morning. I was on the back patio enjoying my coffee Sunday morning when Don left to pick up Nat. A few minutes...Continue Reading »
One week down... and Natalie's new memory-metal glasses are neither broken nor lost. It's a miracle! Natalie got new glasses last Wednesday. They’re fire-engine red, with memory metal frames, and sun glasses that are like clip-ons, but magnetic. They’re pretty cool. And Nat loves them. I thought memory metal sounded too good to be true. Sure, they’ll bend, I thought, but will they BEND? Will they stand up to the ADHD fidget-finger challenge? So far, so good! Nat’s new frames have survived 7...Continue Reading » « ADHD Parenting Blog's blog « All Blogs |
    
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