Hilarious video of a socially smart, very verbal little girl (baby). You go Girl!!

Power Moms Unite
http://www.powermomsunite.com

Candace McLane combines her practical experience as a mom with ADHD children with her professional experience as an occupational therapist to present clear, well thought out ideas for managing life. She has many great suggestions that not only are good for kids with ADHD but for family life in general. Power Moms Unite is definitely a great resource!
 
 
Candace McLane, MA

I am the Mom CEO of a large family (1 spouse, 5 kids), whose many members struggle to manage their ADHD. A retired occupational therapist, I am a tenacious advocate for families living with ADHD, ODD, and other co-morbid diagnoses. I am a frequent speaker for schools, churches, and various civic organizations on topics about ADHD and large families with special needs. If you are in the Philadelphia/NJ/DC area I would love to share my experiences with you.

I hope the site provides laughter, encouragement, insights, and conversation… as well as a link to accurate, reputable information. I look forward to swapping stories with you.

Thanks for participating, Candace McLane, MA
 

 
Sample of a Blog Entry

http://www.powermomsunite.com/2009/04/13/striking-a-balance-summer-survival-tips-for-families-managing-adhd/

Striking a Balance: Summer Survival Tips for Families Managing ADHD

One major issue with ADHD and summer vacations is the bored factor. Once the novelty of having all that free-time-to-do-anything wears away, what to do with all that free time becomes a problem. On the other hand, over-scheduling and over-planning the summer can lead to burn-out and irritability for both parents and children. The art of managing ADHD during the summer is really about the art of finding balance. Several strategies can help strike this balance.

Keep a calendar: Use a monthly or weekly calendar and write down vacation, camp and community trip dates. Kids need routine to feel secure, but be sure to leave some dates empty to allow for free time to simple create and imagine in the back yard.

Prescript your day: Early in the day, sit with your child and review what they want to accomplish and what you need to accomplish. Negotiate how each of you will spend your time so as not to conflict. Explicitly state how you expect your child to behave for any important activities (like that very important conference call at 1PM) and be sure to reward them for following the “script.”

Make a summer contract: Use the summer as an opportunity to help your child explore their interests, reinforce their academic skills, and find their passions. Write out a contract with your child, in which they list their goals for the summer. Goals could include places they would like to visit, books they would like to read, cub scout activities they would like to complete, models they would like to build- the list of possibilities is endless. Include goals you and the teacher identify as well. If you have a therapist, consult them regarding activities to persue over the summer break. Activities can be focused on building a friendship with a particular friend, trying new foods with dinner, volunteering at a local soup kitchen, or learning the steps to complimenting a sibling. Set a due date and reward for completing each goal. Consider rewarding the child with a bonus for completing all their goals for the summer.
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Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide

We’re physicians with a national referral practice seeing children with learning difficulties. We all have different ways in which we’re “wired to learn”, and understanding these differences will help us have intellectually and personally satisfying lives.

For students with specific learning challenges, understanding the differences in how their brains work can be breakthrough in overcoming their hurdles and help them find what they really enjoy doing in life.

The blog has weekly articles related to brain-based learning and learning styles, problem-solving and creativity, kids, families, and parenting, gifted and visual learners, dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, autism, and more.

Books by the Eides:

The Mislabeled Child: Looking Beyond Behavior to Find the True Sources and Solutions for Children’s Learning Challenges

Understanding Gifted Children – “Brains on Fire”

Dyslexia and Writing Challenges in Gifted Children

Attention, Sensory Processing, & the Social Challenges of Gifted Children

Visual Spelling

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Anne

I’m a single mom with two great kids, each with their own unique learning style.

Anne writes in a clean straightforward fashion sharing a ton of great information that she has learned from ten years of working with, exploring and understanding her sons’ learning differences.

Here is Anne’s first blog post. It can be found at http://ldparents.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-beginning.html

In the beginning

I don’t really know where to begin. The earliest years of my son’s life were normal, blissful, happy. He didn’t talk much but communicated in his way and we seemed to share some innate ability to understand each other.

Around his second birthday, his pediatrician finally convinced me to have him start speech therapy so she “could hear his beautiful voice.”

Speech therapy was successful but came with what seemed at the time like an ominous prediction from his speech therapist. “Watch out for language-based learning disabilities as your son gets older.”

Ten years later I’m thankful for the recommendation. That speech therapist was right on the money, the language deficits my son experienced as a baby and toddler were indicative of problems he would experience with reading and writing and language in general.

My hope for this blog is to share some experiences and to encourage other parents to share theirs. My son has had many successes in his educational career and I’ve done my best to stay on top of all the latest research, therapies and educational issues.

Most importantly, I love to tell stories. My kids’ stories are the best. When I lost my job last week and my son and I were discussing what was next, he suggested I write a book. (Actually, his first suggestion was that I get a costume and stand out on the street corner waving a sign for a local business, but I digress.)

I asked him what the book would be about and he said, “It’d be about us. We’ve lived lots of places and done lots of things. First you could talk, then I could tell my side, then J (little sister) could tell her side.”

Great idea. But, since his mother shares his short attention span, a blog will have to suffice for now.