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Getting Things Done With ADHD

Getting Things Done with ADHD will never be easy.  However, you can develop strategies to help yourself do more of the things that really matter to you. In the spring if this year I bought Dr Russ Ramsay's new book Rethinking Adult ADHD: Helping Clients Turn...

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Book Review: What Could Go Wrong?

Book review: What could go wrong?   I thought it would be fun, and much faster, to do a video review. This book is not your ordinary parenting book - there is no, "do this, don't do that." Grayson writes about the stuff of life with humor and grace. I really...

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A Parent’s Guide To Teen Addiction

What do the following words all have in common? Baby, Bernice, Charlie, Dream, Florida Snow, Girlfriend, King, Monster, and Society High. They are all different ways to say cocaine. Perhaps I am just old school, but I really had no idea the amount of lingo out there...

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Book Review: Be The Parent, Please

  I am an example of the “typical” American parent. Fully aware of the research on television, I still allow my child to watch a show so that I can get other things done. In fact, when he was an infant I often watched television while he nursed. But I am learning...

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Astonishing facts you need to know about why teens take risks

  **This post was sponsored by fsb associates. I was given a copy of Born To Be Wild for review.** Astonishing Facts you need to know about why teens take risks   "lets go out on a boat with the guys." As teenagers, it never occurred to us that the boat might...

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The Mindfulness Prescription For Adult ADHD

I am not first person with ADHD to be skeptical about mindfulness, meditation and all that it involves. If you read my article on learning to meditate with ADHD you already know I have completely changed my thinking on the topic. These days meditation is a normal part...

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Book Review: The Whole-Brain Child

I decided to do this review on video for a change of pace. Let me know what you think. Book Review: The Whole-Brain Child   So that is my book review of The Whole-Brain Child! Definitely think it is worth a read if you are always looking to improve your...

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Book Review: Carry On Warrior

**this post contains affiliate links. Confession: I have been a fan of Glennon Doyle Melton for a while. At first I just followed Momastery. Now I follow all of her social media and I watch her videos on Youtube. There is something about a person who puts it all out...

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Book Review: Raising Human Beings

This was not a sponsored post - but I did receive two free copies of Raising Human Beings. I will be doing a giveaway with my second copy.   As I began reading this book I was dreading the review. Not because I didn’t enjoy the book, but because I thought it was...

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Book Review: The Anti-Romantic Child

…a child, more than all other gifts, That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts, And stirrings of inquietude, when they By tendency of nature needs must fail. -Wordsworth, “ Michael”   I first read an excerpt of...

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