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
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Sari Solden, MS,
"...Full of helpful and specific suggestions as well as emotionally validating and guilt reducing!"

Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. in ADDvance magazine
"Finally, an honest, realistic book for mothers with ADD..."

Colleen Alexander-Roberts, author of the ADHD Parenting
"This book is a gold-mine resource filled with practical information, advice, and valuable suggestions for the reader..."

Terry Matlen, MSW, ACSW,
"This refreshing, easy-to-navigate book is a must-have for any mom touched by attentional difficulties..."

Book Description
Agonize no more, frustrated moms! MOMS WITH ADD is here to help. Rather than pathologize attention deficit disorder 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.

From the Author
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.

Organizing for Mothers with ADD Just Got Easier!, June 12, 2001

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.