MENTAL HEALTH in America (and probably the rest of the world… my perspective) This week another mass shooting in a school by a child (almost adult) whose story is not yet fully known but already presumed mentally ill. The “he was different” conversations and the words “adoption, and fetal alcohol syndrome” have already been bounced […]
ADHD
How Many Times…
How many times … I had reason tonight to go back over a series of blog posts about a program we had completed in 2011. As I was reading through the Brain Balance blog roll I realized we had actually finished that program with hope in our heart and a skip in our step. Okay perhaps we […]
PANS, PANDAS and Lyme Disease – what’s the connection?
PANS, PANDAS & life after a diagnosis of Lyme Disease So in the 3 years since I put away my keyboard and started focusing on other things, a lot happened in our lives. In August 2014, when I wrote this post, I had no idea what was even possible for us going forward. We had […]
So it isn’t just me then…..
SPOILED ROTTEN: Why do kids rule the roost? BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT After last week’s post it’s nice to see I am not alone. I was expecting to see a picture of my house attached to this paragraph: “Children, according to “Life at Home,” are disproportionate generators of clutter: “Each new child in a household leads to […]
Making excuses…
I am a member of many groups on Facebook (many, many groups), mostly all related around the topic of how to parent both a difficult to diagnose child and children with difficult diagnoses. I have to say this: Today, it struck me that we all make lots of excuses in regards to our own behavior […]