What You Need to Know About ADD/ADHD
May is Mental Health Awareness month and Mother’s Day, so it seemed to me the best time to put down on paper the […]
Category: Parenting
Mother’s Day 2017
Our children take us places we can’t envision when they are a bundle of cells commingling with our own. When we feel […]
The Art of Radical Acceptance
Radical acceptance is the psychological term for learning to live with sorrow we cannot change. It’s not a new concept, and it’s […]
The Face of Institutional Racism
The other day, my high school freshman son had a lacrosse game for school. My white son goes to an independent college […]
Following Your Heart for Your Learning Disabled Child
My son was in kindergarten when my heart first told me something was wrong. I started asking questions. I was told he […]
Playing Like a Girl
My daughter plays hockey. She loves it. She especially loves to play goalie, although she also likes to play forward. She’s a […]
My Top Six Tips for Motivating a Child with LDs
First,let me preface this list by saying that it is not scientifically based. I am not forming this list from a series […]
Dyslexia Support
It’s difficult to offer concrete help for children with dyslexia in a forum such as this because Dyslexia itself is a broad […]
Ownership Matters
Today I watched a wonderful trailer for a movie about being Dyslexic at The Big Picture Movie. This trailer pierced my heart […]
Living with LD, Moments of Dark Joy Shine through the Struggle
My second son, who happens to be dyslexic and have a partial executive functioning disability in planning and organizing, walked out of […]