: About Me

I have been happily married for 16 years to the father of my two kids, an eleven-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son. When I'm not helping them with their homework, I'm doing my own. I am a full-time student, homemaker, mother, wife and any number of other titles you want to bestow upon me. Life is absolutely chaotic some days, but it is good!

My passion is ...

music

I know too much about ...

things that don't matter, and not enough about things that do.

My parents always told me ...

I hope someday you have a daughter just like you!

My childhood ambition ...

to be a singer of course

My favorite memory ...

building dams in the creek behind my house

Why I write ...

It's less dangerous than speaking - backspace is much more effective than removing a foot from one's mouth

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

nothing at the moment, but I just finished Into the Forest for a writing class

My first job ...

working midnights at a party store (not wise for an 18 year old girl)

My best moment ...

when my children were born, hands-down.

My inspiration ...

Jesus Christ - I want to be more like Him.

Health & Fitness > Childhood Disorders Is ADHD overdiagnosed in children?

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As a girl growing up in the 1970s, a time when ADHD was NOT the diagnosis du Jour, children who had a hard time sitting still and being quiet were simply sent to the Principal's office for a date with the wooden paddle. This made for a nice orderly classroom, but did very little to suit the educational needs of kids who just didn't quite think like the rest of the class. Some were even placed in the special education classroom despite a lack of true cognitive deficit. Today, teachers and parents are far more likely to pick up on the subtle differences than they were thirty years ago, but d...

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