First, I was a research scientist studying woman's health issues. Then I had my children and life changed dramatically. I discovered that I was interested in the birth process. I became a doula and guided many couples through the birth of a child or two.

Then came my full house of my three sons. Suddenly, once they were in school, I became passionate about education. I'm very opinionated about special needs and education. Therefore, I have homeschooled and am a private tutor for k-12 students who need extra support or who don't learn in the way that the school wants them to learn.

I also know too much about many different topics. I have many interests and find research an easy thing to do. Must have been all those years conducting research.

My passion is ...

reading, writing, and teaching

My parents always told me ...

You can do anything, if you apply yourself

My childhood ambition ...

to be a scientist/writer

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

science fiction

Parenting & Pregnancy > Special Needs Testimonies: A parent's decision to medicate children for ADD and ADHD

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The ides of March in my son's 5th grade year, he has just read his first chapter book in the fall. It has been three years since he was first diagnosed with ADHD and visual motor processing disorder. After removing him from a traditional classroom, he began to blossom. We homeschool through an independent home study program offered by our county's Department of Education. For those first three years, my son wasn't medicated for his ADHD because of the visual motor processing diagnosis. We were told that was his defining factor.

At my son's triennial review, I was excited to meet the new...

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