My 13 year old son was diagnosed with ADHD-PI at the age of 6. I’ll never forget the day we got that paper from the doctor we’d only met with once. They had evaluated our family life, his educational ability, and our effectiveness as parents and boiled it down to one piece of paper. I’m […]
1,374.8 Hours Diaper Changing! Motherhood Math!
So this morning as I was changing the babies diaper I started wondering… How many hours of my life have I spent changing diapers? So I put her down for her nap, pulled out the calculator and started doing some simple Math. If you figure that it takes just about 3 minutes to change […]
How ADHD Is So Not Winning
5.1 Million children ages 4-17 have been diagnosed with ADHD according to the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH). I birthed one of them. I don’t like that my child is included in one of those statistics. I often even hate using those 4 letters together. Those letters come with preconceived attitudes about my child, judgement […]