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Whoa, Wiggle-Worm: A Little Lemon Book about an Overly Active Child

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This book is right on target for helping overly active children to gain self-control. It is a realistic memory cue that fits naturally into the story line. Other help is also given. The discussion questions help the overly active child and they help his or her peers. They talk about nicknames, helping others, and other things that help parents and teachers with a good discussion. I'm glad they do not use words like ADHD. Overly active children can be that way for lots of reasons besides ADHD.

My neighbor's child was overly active and went the route of ADHD drugs which didn't help at all. They finally did a complete (I mean really complete) physical and found out he has blood sugar problems causing the swings in behavior. Now that his blood sugar is keep under control, he is a different child.

This book rightfully doesn't label the child and even suggests finding the cause of the behaviors by getting help from the school psychologist and the teacher. It also suggests a memory cue to help. It points out the need for a well balanced diet too. This child in the book might have ADD, ADHD, behavior problems, blood sugar problems, etc.

The book is more useful if it is used with Little Lemon: Activities for Developing Motivation and Memory Skills. The choice of the lemon puppets makes more sense that way than just reading the sequel (this book). The book about memory skills has many practical suggestions, discussion questions, and there are more on the author's website. The site is listed at the end of both books. You can type Learning Abilities Books into a search engine to find the site.

Sorry, but I just can't think of much nice to say about this book. It's a little bizarre (lemons? lemon land?), and tries to be too many things to many categories of special needs kids.

My son actually got up and walked out of the room on it.

The two other books I bought were way better: "Eagle Eyes" and "Shelly the Hyperactive Turtle".

Writers take note, there's more room on the market for quality kids' books about ADD.