I feel like changing the lyrics of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song to “Your ADHD is like a rollercoaster, baby,” because that is exactly what raising my child with ADHD feels like. Let me explain. The Beginning: At the beginning of a rollercoaster, particularly if it is your first time, you feel anxious and nervous, because you don’t know what to expect. Although my husband and I had our suspicions that our then five year old daughter had ADHD, I was still...
For almost a year now, my daughter with ADHD has been suffering from depression. When her doctor diagnosed her with depression, I was shocked and I didn’t know what to say. I was like a deer in headlights. “But she’s six years old,” I said. “How could she have depression?” According to WebMD, 2.5% of children in the US have depression, but in a study done with 125 children with ADHD, 39% of those children had depression. So why is depression much higher with children who have ADHD? Kids with ADHD have...
It occurred to me that I mostly write about the struggles and challenges my daughter with ADHD faces and that is just not fair. I think parents of ADHDers can all agree that while having ADHD can make life more difficult and stressful for both our children and ourselves at times, it also provides our children with a lot of amazing qualities. These qualities are going to allow our children to go far in life and become very successful. Many people with ADHD grow up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, and trend-setters. Very important and famous...
The San Francisco Unified School Board is proposing to give middle school students access to free condoms. Not only that, state law would allow these middle schoolers to get condoms without their parent’s permission. Many parents are opposed to this and I am one of them. Middle schoolers range from age 11 to 14 and the school district not only wants to provide these children with condoms, they want to do it without their parents’ consent. Are you friggin’ kidding me? I got my first bra when I was 11, my first period...
The 80’s and 90’s were very different periods of time for teenagers. Nowadays, the modernisation of phones and internet means teenagers are growing in a world of social media. Teens now are avid users of social media sites like Instagram, posting their lives and building up their Instagram followers through companies like Socialfollow ®. It’s strange to think that just twenty or so years ago, things were completely different… Rather than rushing home to go on our phones, or play on our laptops, we were happy...