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Momfidence! cheers on commonsense parenting and sighs at the rest. How to worry less, wing it more. A.k.a. parenting by the seat of my mid-rise mom jeans.
About Paula Spencer
I'm the author of Momfidence! An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a mom of four in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where you cannot even buy Oreos at the two groceries nearest to my home).
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NOBODY Has Attention AnymoreJuly 23, 2008
Today's diseased-children headline: More cases of ADHD are being diagnosed in kids over 11...four percent more each year!
Hmmm, previously cases were identified before this age, so we had the tot-ADHD "epidemic." And then it was the teen epidemic. And let's not forget the growing number of adults with ADHD. "It may reflect a growing understanding that a child-- especially an older kid --can have ADHD without being disruptively impulsive or hyperactive," says one doc. In which case the problem is...?? Face it. Nobody can concentrate these days! I sure can't, with my email box dinging and Drudge Report beckoning and the phones...But to take a drug for it seems a bit overboard. Unless you're peddling Ritalin. There are enough docs out there pooh-poohing the ADHD diagnosis and offering alternative behavioral approaches to make me very wary of this particular disease fad. |
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