All posts in high school
So we let our ADHD teen fail. NOW WHAT??
Last we checked on my ADHD/Aspie son “Clark Kent,” he was living up to his nickname in spectacular fashion while stubbornly clinging to the belief that he was soaring like Superman. Heaven help his beleaguered parents! After rebelling against …
Homeschooling & ADHD/Other Special Needs : What Type of Homeschooling Works Best?
If you’re reading this you’re either curious about homeschooling because you think it will help your child, actively homeschooling and looking for tips, or Googling in desperation because More...
Rebel, with or without a cause: natural health & wellness treatment alternatives
Oh what a difference a month makes! When I posted on our foray into natural health and wellness alternatives for our teenage son – an ADHD/Asperger’s young man affectionately More...
But Superman never gets a sunburn.
Four seconds. That's the approximate range of forward thinking our teenage ADHD/Asperger's son can engage in. There are obvious problems with this present focus, like the inability to More...
It is love, actually.
It's all we need, right? Love. Love. Love. We just made it through another Valentine's Day, where a young boy's heart naturally turns to, what? Love, right? Well, sort of. Theoretically. For More...
College won’t kill us, but it feels like it.
Once upon a time, long, long, ago, Clark skipped kindergarten before we knew he had ADHD. The well-intentioned suggestion from his private school and our misguided decision about More...
Book Review: “Take Control of ADHD: The Ultimate Guide for Teens with ADHD”
I admit it: I am a bit of an ADHD book junkie. I am always lurking in the psychology sections of Half Price Books, and I jump up More...
Easing the Grip: the Clark Chronicles
He swears he meant to look this confused in his self-portrait. But we still got a kick out of it. "Yes! That's our boy!" Every year of my kids' lives, More...
Everyone thinks they can fix him, and me: The Clark Chronicles
Do you ever feel like no one out there understands what it's like to parent a neuro-atypical child? I do. Even the people closest to me haven't always seemed to More...
The Right Stuff: The Clark Chronicles
Artwork by Alayah Frazier: That Boy My 15-year old ADHD son Clark has many of the raw materials for great success later in life: brains, looks, a wicked sense More...
