As a mom who has been diagnosed with ADD (attention deficit disorder) and successfully treated for 17 years, I find it different in dealing with my children. When you are by yourself, you can regulate the problems. It is not as though I do not know what it is like; however, it is though I am clueless as a parent and as it relates to my own children and husband who does not have ADD. I am getting them diagnosed, but for the first time I am admitting that they are not like other children in that I cringe when they are corrected for the tenth time for not listening, following directions, or being disrespectful at age 6 and 8. They are good kids, but I do not want what I went through as a child. I was diagnosed in my 20s. As a good ADD, I want to fix them now. I have the ADDitude magazine. I read some great books. I have set up a goals for them with incentives, but I have this underlying feeling of dread which I just need to share. I own my own Montessori school and work with just 11 children. I guess I am coming to accept the work I have faced and am going to face in school. Also, I must say that I have had to be off my medicine because of a thyroid problem which is not helping. It is so hard to keep a perspective. Thank you for listening.

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