Testimonies: Coping with your child's ADHD 27 Articles

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by Melissa Brown

REALLY SPECIAL KIDS I didn't have to repeat any grade except for kindergarten, and that was only because I was a year too young to start kindergarten in Texas. At five years old, in 1953, I probably wasn't ready for th...read more

by Heather Hartley

Tips on how to help students and parents deal with ADHD Try to read a paragraph while having rock and roll music on full blast and having children yelling and dancing around you. Now what did you learn from the paragrap...read more

by Tina Hartley

My oldest son, Jamie chewed all of his shirt collars. He chewed on the corner of his bed sheets and pillowcases. He absolutely, positively could not sit still. Not in church, not at school, and not at the dinner table. His...read more

by Jennifer Long

ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is exactly what the name describes. Your child has a lack in the ability to sustain his/her attention, paired with a hyperactive personality. Many parents find that dealing...read more

by Cheryl Chastainn

It was a mere fluke that 3 months after the birth of my second child I started college in the field of psychology. I was a paid musician and making enough money to get by, but knew that I was going to need more as I was no...read more

by Willow Kincaid

Dealing with ADHD I have an eight year old niece with ADHD. Although I love the girl like a daughter she, can be a very big handful. She is a very bright and wonderful little girl, but because of the hyper activity she ...read more

by Angie Taliferro

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects 1 in 3 children in the United States. While it is more diagnosed these days than it was in the past, there are many people that believe their children are being misdi...read more

by Kelley Wrath

A.D.H.D and Autism. My 9 year old son has both A.D.H.D and Autism.He is a handful at times.When he was born, He seemed like a normal baby.He was a little more fuzzy then my first son,but every child is different.When he wa...read more

by Dorie Ybarra

SPECIAL KIDS NEED BOUNDARIES TOO "You should probably take your son upstairs away from this," the police officer warned. Tommy, his teenage half-brother, Robert, and I went upstairs and waited while Tommy's father wa...read more

by Ally Davies

My son's school report by the age of seven read as follows, Literacy, fully capable of expressing, in his written work and verbal class contributions, his extensive vocabulary of profanity. Numeracy, great understandin...read more

by croberts

Our youngest son is A.D.H.D., is now 19 yrs. old, graduated from high school and working. When he was little we began to notice that he seemed to be progressing slightly different from our other three. We as paren...read more

by Lashonda Gibson

ADHD and School Performance Approximately 8 to 10 percent of school age children are affected by ADHD. ADHD is the abbreviation for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The disorder affects millions of children. ...read more

by Eve Redstone

I was one of those people who thought that ADHD was an imaginary disorder. A disorder invented to cover for bad parenting. The emphasis is on the past tense there. My eldest child walked early, rode a bike early, and g...read more

by Screwloose

It was the most horrible experience, raising my Grandson and not realizing the problems he was having were caused by AD/HD. He was extremely revengeful and angry. He did above average in math and reading and was placed i...read more

by Lynn Haberzettl

Awwwww, the good old days. When you would see families out in public eating or just walking around. Remember how good those kids were with their parents? What has happened? Over the years the number of children diag...read more

by Lisa Di Clemente

Many of us know children (or even adults) who have been diagnosed with ADHD or ADD. Schools have a difficult time with these children because quite frankly, there are SO MANY of them now that it must be impossible to handl...read more

by Tracey Duke

I brought up two boys, who are now in their 20's. One had ADD, the other ADHD. It was very challenging, I must say. They weren't diagnosed until they were in their teens, and this didn't help our family life. We visited a ...read more

by Bre Blackwell

Of course, I was a little nervous for my son's first day of second grade. It was a new school for him and he had had "problems" in kindergarten and first grade.The usual diffculties I underlined in books with a heavy hear...read more

by Amanda Krise

My son is a normal, active, healthy 8 year old. With a slight problem. He has ADHD (Attention/Deficit/Hyperact ivity Disorder). If you feel your child has this condition, the first step is seeking help from the right medica...read more

by Latisha Vaughan

When coping with your childs' ADHD, you must take special precautions. For instance, I'm a parent of an ADHD child and everyday is an challege. It ranges from her being inattentive to showing off. But the worst of them all...read more