ESL teacher with Adult ADD (and parent of an ADD child): resources; experiences; concerns; and thoughts.

(June 3, 2009 addition added at bottom).
This past year has been crazy.  I say that without exaggeration.  People at work cannot believe the amount of chaos and disruption that goes on in my life.  It is getting VERY embarrassing.  However, I know that someone is trying to steal my faith in God and I’m not [...]

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Just recently I was asked what faith was.  I didn’t like the other person’s definition of faith and have been brooding over it ever since.  Sunday, in church, during the readings, it hit me.
Faith is Knowledge in something that cannot be seen or proved tangibly.  It can be explained.
I KNOW my God loves me.
I KNOW [...]

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I got this in an email but it says everything I’ve been trying to say.
THOSE BORN 1920-1979
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and
didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put [...]

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I realized today, having confidence in myself, and the things I know is a very freeing thing.
In the past, before having a name for the way I am, I was always afraid that all those balls I tried, and failed, to juggle, would fall at the wrong time, and I’d be caught and found out [...]

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For those of us who have adjusted to the instancy of the internet world, waiting is abhorrent. We have cell phones and computers and cable. We don’t need to wait for news, of any kind.
My mother, on the other hand, has a cell phone and a computer, but does not use them in [...]

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At teacher is not a baker.  A teacher has no possible right to expect that every child is, will turn out and will respond, exactly like the others.  God was good when he created us, every one, different.
So why do teachers want to teach every child the same?
One of the many, many facets of the [...]

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I read a wonderful article geared for Middle School and High School kids and teaching them how to evaluate Media Messages from commercials to TV shows.  It gives a parent or teacher a good approach to teaching to child to critically think on his or her own and evaluate the message.
It is so much better [...]

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Today I had several things I wanted to blog about, however, I had reservations about making some things public.  I was afraid to offend someone or have someone think the wrong thing.  This blog is very public and so intended.  I chose not to post these things until I could come up with a tactful [...]

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My husband and I both have ADD.  He wont go get treated.  He is driving me NUTS!!  He is massively impulsive and because of that he is SELFISH!!  I am about ready to get rid of him.
His parents are coming in Friday, for Thanksgiving week.  He, his dad and my twol oldest boys are going [...]

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I have been sick lately.  Not life threatening but sick enough.  I am on round 3 of antibiotics for some kind of infection.  This round is kicking the snot (pun intended) out of my infection but it (and the others) have affected my digestive system.  I have had to stop taking my stimulant medication and [...]

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