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How to Help an ADD Child Cope Without Medication

Having a child with Attention Deficit Disorder can be taxing on a parent. Many schools and psychologists will push medicating your child in order to help them adapt. In some cases, they push so hard for the drug that you feel like you’re in a back-alley...

The Myth of Multi-Tasking

We’ll call her Ashley, but she could be almost any high school student in America. She works on her homework at the kitchen table with a television playing loudly in the background, her phone alerting her to check a barrage of incoming text messages, and a computer...

Reason #79 to Keep Your Children Around

Hubby and I discovered something over the past two days. It turns out that keeping children around while you’re doing projects that require skill and concentration can be helpful. If you didn’t, who would you have to blame for distracting you? I know, I...