Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

by Edward M. Hallowell

Younger children with ADD especially need structure and limits.

Superparenting for ADD,

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Children with ADD are born entrepreneurs.

Mainly, the coach keeps the player focused on the task at hand and offers encouragement along the way.

Often the most devastating aspect of ADD is not the ADD itself, but the secondary damage done to self-esteem.

Ask questions that promote self-observation.

With every step forward we become more sure what the disorder is not: it is not willful misbehaving, it is not a moral failing, it is not a lack of trying nor an inability to take an interest in the world.

By then, we knew that ADD clustered in families and was not caused by bad parenting.

Overall, the ADD group metabolized glucose at rates 8 percent lower than the control group.

about 30 percent of parents of ADD children have ADD themselves.

the least, current evidence supports the contention that ADD is a syndrome of genetic origin where one’s biological system has experienced some kind of change—be it chemical, neuroanatomical, or maturational—and has been rendered out of balance.

the ability to concentrate on everything.