Have you ever played Jenga? You build a tower from wooden blocks, then the players take turns taking a block from the middle and placing it on it. At some point someone removes the one who lets everything fall over. In short, that’s ADHD kids and school holidays! You want to play – and win […]
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The kids have reached an age where Laurie and I can finally leave them at home alone. And tonight is the first night we let her cook her own dinner. We think they can handle putting a can of soup in the microwave. So I go to the gym and Laurie has a coffee with […]
Summer! Children are excited. Teachers are relieved. Parents across the country are feeling a familiar tingling sensation in the pit of their stomach from the summer routine – especially parents dealing with ADHD children. Somewhere in their heads they think “What now? What do I do with my energetic, often absent-minded, kilometer-long child, all day, […]
“We’re doing what ?!” My 8 year old son screamed. “It’s coronavirus! We can’t go to New York! “ We have been sitting in our home in Jersey City, New Jersey for 14 months. Directly in front of our window the yellow ferry sat quietly, absolutely still. No longer busy getting passengers back and forth […]