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 of Do You Have Attention Deficit Disorder?, offers practical coping strategies for family- and job-related concerns. This easy-to-read manual is guaranteed to make moms with ADD happier at home and in the office. 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. 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, author of The ADHD Parenting Handbook 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 Are you a mother with attention deficit disorder, struggling to be perfect and always falling short? Losing your car and house keys, blurting out comments, finding yourself late all the time? Or you may be a mom with ADD who is able to "hyperfocus"---concentrating on an interesting subject for hours at a time. You're creative, compassionate and a very intriguing woman. Maybe you're both of these women, at different times. Many of us are. Moms with ADD is for the woman who is struggling as well as for the woman who has most of her "act" together---the book is packed with as much advice as I could cram in, based on interviews with mothers who have ADD, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and others. NOT an "I'm a victim---feel sorry for me!" kind of book---instead, Moms with ADD offers you practical solutions to everyday problems that so many mothers who have ADD face. Coping with teachers, dealing with disciplining your kids, figuring out how to handle things when one child has ADD and the other doesn't. And much more. I AM a mother with ADD myself, and I know what it's like from the inside out. I used my hyperfocusing and researching/writing skills to bring you practical and useable information that I hope will help.