ADD/HD In the Different Areas of life

My work with ADD/HD children and adults has been cycling in and out of my practice for a dozen or so years.  Whether that was in the capacity of how to help them fit in better or to break out more from straight jacket perceptions of who they are and who they needed to be to be succ...
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Part 3 New York Times Article Review

  Welcome to the second week of our exploration of the New York Times article entitled, "Drowned in a Sea of Prescriptions".   This week Dr. Kevin dives into the culture of over-medicating.      Watch this space, weekly on ...
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...Not Medicate

Common sense isn’t so common any more.     In a fast food world we often take the easy way out, (fast meal) creating a much longer and harder way over the long run (diet).  We do this in a number of ways and for a number of reasons.  Let's explo...
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Fear Factor

Today we use science, statistical data, patriotism, religion, popularity, wealth, health, and love, to name a few, as ways to control.  We are manipulated by what we may or may not be, become, have, lose, never get or some other version of suffering, if we do not do, think or verba...
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Part 2 New York Times Article Review

  Welcome to the second week of our exploration of the New York Times article entitled, "Drowned in a Sea of Prescriptions".   This week Dr. Kevin dives into the culture of over-medicating.      Watch this space, weekly on ...
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For Whose Benefit Do We Drug Our Children?

There are a few factors to explore when you are told that your child is ADD/HD.  First, understand all you can.  List what it means for your child, as a unique individual, to be ADD/HD.  This diagnosis is observational in nature as people are born with ADD/HD.  Track...
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Areas of Life Through the ADD/HD Lens

My work with ADD/HD children and adults has been cycling in and out of my practice for a dozen or so years.  Whether that was in the capacity of how to help them fit in better or to break out more from straight jacket perceptions of who they are and who they needed to be to be succ...
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Good Health = Good Balance

Eat a balanced diet, drink lots of water, work out regularly, and take time to relax.  Health professionals from all belief systems are always talking about balance.  They do not always agree on how to define it, but the key word is always “balance”.  The...
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New York Times Article Review

Dr. Kevin begins an eight week video exploration of a New York Times article by Alan Schwarz entitled, "Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions ", which was published on February 2, 2013.   This week Dr. Kevin introduces the topic of the culture of over-medicating. ...
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Daily Spiritual Practices

It is the discipline of consistency, even when the heart is not present, which allows natural gifts to soar.  In the absence of natural gifts, the discipline of consistency develops the tools and the mastering of the skill sets to raise your abilities to whatever capability is poss...
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Fool Me Twice

Between the afraid and the apathetic, we have created enough of our population to fully allow our elected government to determine whom and to what level should be accountable without questioning it.   We have massive double standards that we allow ourselves to be fooled int...
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20 Tell-Tale Signs of Adult ADHD

With high profile celebrities like NBC’s “The Voice” judge Adam Levine, TV news broadcasters like Phoenix-based Kaley O’Kelley and others like “The ADHD CEO” Greg Selkoe now publicly owning their ADHD diagnosis, it begs many questions: How does one kn...
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Holistic care reduces need for drugs in kids with ADHD

The Poughkeepsie Journal reported that holistic care reduced need for drugs for kids with ADHD.   On the other hand,we have WebMD who recently posted this:   Strategies for Reducing Medication Side Effects   Mood changes, decreased appetite, sleep ...
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ADD/HD Mindfulness

Good Therapy.org, recently reported on a study about mindfulness training saying “the children enrolled in the mindfulness program exhibited significant declines in nearly all of their symptoms. The parents also experienced declines (in stress), although they were not as dramatic....
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Guinea Pig Children

There are hundreds if not thousands of marches, rallies, and petitions combatting cruelty to animals. People protest because scientists test on laboratory animals, such as rats, in the pursuit of scientific understanding. But at least people care enough about these animals to carry arou...
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Could it be ADHD?

By Sylvia Anderson   School has only been in session a month but already, your child is having problems.   The teacher says he’s having trouble paying attention in class. He forgets things and blurts out answers before questions have been completed. &...
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Tips for Summer, Vacations and Back to School

Summer break, family vacations, and going back to school can be challenging for any child. Unfortunately, having a child that is gifted with ADD/HD can bring those challenges to a whole new level.   To help you along this summer, I’ve made some general tips for all th...
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Texas is at it again!

It seems like just yesterday that I was criticizing Texas’s school system for creating their own ever-so-slightly skewed version of history in their textbooks. Well, they’re at it again.   The only difference is that this time, they’re making their own inf...
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People Like Me

The following was written by one of our Facebook friends, Jay McGrath.   We liked it so much we had to share it with everyone.   I have some issues with my memory and I can forget things really easily. It becomes frustrating when you can remember a minor d...
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On which side of the street does the disability lie?

We spend hundreds of thousands of hours and circulate millions of dollars through the educational stream. Hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue are made on children with learning disabilities. How often do we check and see if we are looking on the right side of the street to see wh...

 

 

Would the Light Bulb Have Gone off?

Between the afraid and the apathetic, we have created enough of our population to fully allow our elected government to determine whom and to what level should be accountable without questioning it.   We have massive double standards that we allow ourselves to be fooled int...
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Best Educational Format For ADD/HD Children

An article in USA Today reported that home schooling has been on a steady rise for the last five years and that the reasons for home schooling have shifted.  There are now 1.5 million children being home schooled, which is up 74% since they first started keeping track of numbers in...