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ADHD News: Will the Brits Ban Green Tic Tacs?
If you've read much about hyperactive, impulsive, can't focus kids--those kids we call ADHD--you've probably run across information suggesting that artificial coloring and artificial flavors can cause...
ADHD or Lack of Vitamin D?
We've long known that kids need plenty of vitamin D for healthy bones. We urge parents to make sure kids get plenty of sunshine. We put vitamin D in milk. And my Mom went a step further: forcing me t...
ADHD in 1955
First: I've got a big announcement! My new totally free weekly "ADHD Answers Now" telechat starts Tuesday night, April 29. The first one's called: "The Calm after the Storm," and I'll be giving you t...
ADHD Drugs: Do They Really Cause Heart Attacks?
Do ADHD stimulant drugs such as Ritalin cause heart attacks? Yes, they can--in a small number of children. Children who have a pre-existing heart condition.Since 1999 thirty kids have died from sudden...
ADHD Trick: Left Up, Right Down, Leg Around, and Nod
Try this: Draw a triangle with one hand and two squares with the other hand while tracing a circle on the floor with one leg and nodding your head twice forward, then twice backwards. Switch hands and...
ADHD or Too Much Chocolate Cake
My favorite chocolate cake--not pictured here although this one looks pretty scrumptious--has a whopping 3 cups of sugar, not including the frosting.Just writing about it makes me swoon! (It's the So...
ADHD: Geniuses, Millionaires, and Presidents
We may whine and complain about ADHD. Wish our kids didn't have it. And look for ways to get over it.But, a lot of ADHD folks have been fabulously successful. The most famous is Einstein himself!Then ...
ADHD: Gift or Curse?
As an expert in ADHD and someone who reads everything she can get her hands on about ADHD, I often run into the hardline approach. Either we need to "fix" ADHD kids, if not punish them, or we need to ...
ADHD, Ritalin, and the Feds
O.K. so I've been gone for awhile. Sorry. But there's good news and a reason for my absence: ADHD Children Today is up and running. Yahoo! (Wouldn't say the kids in the picture are ADHD, but they're ...
Paper Dolls: A Waste of Time or a Brain Booster?
Yesterday I was going to blog about what to tell our kids about awful things in the news when they ask (of course, we hope they won't ask): Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace, Britney's 14-year-old siste...
ADHD or Creative Parenting?
The creative spirit of entreprenurial parents never ceases to amaze me. Remember "Baby Einstein" when it first came out? (Not that I recommend the "Einstein" videos for babies and toddlers but that's ...
Blogger needs Brain Gym
So why is it that many of us don't do what we tell others to do? O.K, maybe you do. But I sure haven't been these last two days. Turns out that getting back to Brain Boosters after being gone for seve...
Brain Boosters is back!
Whew, long time away. Got involved in a BIG project--challenging, fascinating, and all consuming. And nothing whatsoever to do with brain boosters or Brain Gym or brain-based-learning. Instead I Learn...