Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual [Paperback]

Christine Adamec (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2000

Agonize no more, frustrated moms! Moms with ADD is here to help. Rather than pathologize ADD or speculate on causes or medical rationales,Moms with ADD enables readers to recognize ADD and optimize their parenting skills. Filled with anecdotes, quotations, and examples, Christine A. Adamec, coauthor ofDo You Have Attention Eficit Disorder?, offers practical coping strategies for family-and job-related concerns. This easy-to-read manual is guarenteed to make moms with ADD happier at home and in the office.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

It's tough enough to live with attention deficit disorder (ADD), but adding motherhood to the mix can be overwhelming. Adamec (How To Live with a Mentally Ill Person, LJ 7/96) offers sound advice on how a mother with ADD can deal with the everyday tasks of running a home, working with teachers, juggling work, and solving family problems. Regarding school issues, the author shares tips on preparing for a conference, helping that includes homework, and considering such alternatives as charter schools. Helpful diets, prescribed medications, and support groups are also covered.Above all, for ADD moms plagued with guilt and self-blame, Adamec gives positive, it's-gonna-work-out advice. A highly helpful, practical guide for all public libraries that indludes web sites, organizations, camps, and school info.DLinda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, PA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Extremely valuable and empowering...A must-read for mothers with ADD who are trying to raise a family, balance a career, and maintain a home while dealing with this syndrome. This book is a gold-mine resource filled with practical information, advice, and valuable suggestions for the reader. I enthusiastically recommend it. (Colleen Alexander-Roberts )

Moms with ADD is a refreshing, easy-to-navigate book and a must-have for any mom touched by attentional difficulties. (Additional News )

Moms with ADD is a refreshing, easy-to-navigate book and a must-have for any mom touched by attentional difficulties. (Additional News )

Adamec offers sound advice on how a mother with ADD can deal with the everyday tasks of running a home, working with teachers, juggling work, and solving family problems. (Library Journal )

Finally, an honest, realistic book for mothers with ADD. Moms with ADD is not just one more description of impossibly "perfect" parenting in yet another parenting book that leaves us feeling terribly inadequate. Chris Adamec does a great job of describing the dilemmas faced by women with ADD as they try to keep up with the juggling act of raising children, managing a household, often while holding down a full-time job. (Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. Addvance Resource Line )

Finally, an honest, realistic book for mothers with ADD. Moms with ADD is not just one more description of impossibly "perfect" parenting in yet another parenting book that leaves us feeling terribly inadequate. Chris Adamec does a great job of describing the dilemmas faced by women with ADD as they try to keep up with the juggling act of raising children, managing a household, often while holding down a full-time job. (Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. Addvance Resource Line )

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878331751
• ISBN-13: 978-0878331758
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #552,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Organizing for Mothers with ADD Just Got Easier!, June 12, 2001

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Karen Jogerst, author of -If I Could Just Get... (Manhattan, MT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual (Paperback)

Hands down one of the best books I've read all year. As a recently diagnosed mom with ADD, Christine's book has been a God-send. For years I've described my experiences with parenting as "trying to manage a three ring circus with a one track mind!" Not only has this book given me solid, practical information about how to cope with the way my brain works, it also is relieving the nagging feelings of incompetence I often struggle with in parenting as a direct result of living with ADD.

In particular, I appreciate Christine's ability to approach the subject of ADD in women in such a positive light, and this book covers it all-- everything from understanding the basics of ADD in women, to managing a family with ADD, to child development issues, and where to find help. Also, the book focuses not only on the good aspects of being a parent with ADD, such as creativity and compassion, but it also gives achievable and reasonable strategies for coping with the problems associated with being a parent with ADD, such as disorder and discipline issues.

As the author of a book and publisher of a newsletter on home management, countless numbers of women share with me their struggles with organizing their homes, time and families on a daily basis. Finally, I have an awesome resource to pass on to my fellow moms with ADD which gives us that final piece of the puzzle-- and enables us to find quiet confidence in the midst of the heartfelt, creative chaos we call motherhood.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and upbeat, May 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual (Paperback)

I prefered this book to Sari Solden's "Women with ADD" because the author doesn't treat ADD women as if they are totally helpless and incapable, or that all women with ADD have the inattentive kind. Instead, there's lots of practical tips for gaining perspective and getting things done.

The author writes about the stress that the average mom of today finds herself in, and how difficult it is to juggle so many demands. It's important for ADD women to understand that even average women find themselves overwhelmed and unorganized. For the ADD woman, everything is that much more difficult. But it's not impossible!

I am a mom diagnosed with ADHD, with two very spirited children, and agree with the approach in this book. Over the years I have learned many strategies for handling things, and this has made a real difference.

One of the biggest sources of trouble for ADD moms is the school system, with their homework and notes about special materials you're supposed to send in "next Thursday" and such. I was told I was "unsupportive" because my son sometimes didn't have the materials he was supposed to have. I found the same teachers utterly clueless about what real education is really about, and pulled my son out of the school. Believe it or not, I have found homeschooling to be easier than having to deal with all the hyper-scheduled nonsense from the school. And my son is learning much more, but in a spontaneous sort of way. I would have liked to see something about homeschooling in the book. But I supposed homeschooling is more difficult in other places than where I live in Connecticut.

I like the fact that this book includes a chapter on the good aspects of ADD. In my opinion, many cases of modern ADD are not related to any real brain defect, but to natural temperament differences related to spontenaity, flexibility, creativity and even giftedness. I value these traits of mine and put them to good use while homeschooling.

I think the positive outlook in this book is important because in my experience most of the women who become diagnosed with ADD experience significant levels of depression and anxiety, and this makes their problems far worse. The last thing they need is another "expert" giving them a lot of psychobabble about how helpless and defective they are. Instead, they need real solutions to everyday problems.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing either new or helpful for those with some knowledge, March 21, 2003

By A Customer

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This review is from: Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual (Paperback)

I am an adult woman with ADD, mother of two, so I was looking forward to hearing a different voice than you usually encounter in ADD books for the general public. Instead, it was pretty much fragmented kinds of suggestions and actually ended up making me feel less competent as a mother than I really am.