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Redshirting* and Recent Research
If you’re looking for another reason to consider redshirting, you may want to consider findings published online recently in the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. According to research done over several years on elementary to middle school aged children in Iceland, younger children may not perform as well academically in mathematics and language arts as their slightly older peers. Additionally, children who are in the … [Read More...]
Make up Your Mind Already!
Every kid does certain things well and other things, not so well. I used to think that decision-making just wasn’t Lesley’s thing. Somewhere I had read that a parent should give choices where the decision’s outcome solely affected the child. Would you like orange juice or apple juice? Do you want your sandwich cut into triangles or rectangles? Lesley never took these choices lightly. She pondered the benefits of pulp-free, … [Read More...]
Honing Life Skills
For a child who’s diagnosed with ADHD-inattentive, school is all consuming for the entire family. Evening life in a typical school week is a series of doing exactly what needs to be done for tomorrow. At times when the next test, regular homework and upcoming project comes close to overwhelming, it’s easy to overlook passing on certain life skills. In hindsight, I can say we did some things better than others, so I hope what we suffered … [Read More...]
Meet Kayla Fay
Meet Kayla Fay and Brock Myers
Kayla Fay is a freelance writer and the mother of four boys, three of whom have been formally diagnosed with the inattentive type of ADHD. When she started “Who Put the Ketchup in the Medicine Cabinet?” in 2002, her sons were ages 8 through 14, when her life was a “progression of dirty laundry, lost homework, misunderstood Algebra, and a whole lot of love and fun”.
Helping the boys deal with the nightmares of homework, the challenges of school, and the realities of life has given Kayla a unique insight into how to maximize the potential of children diagnosed with ADHD-Inattentive. With humor, candor, and faith, Kayla blogs about her experience and experiences with ADHD-I. She’s also written and produced several educational products for children, such as Focus, Pocus, 100 Ways to Help Your Child Pay Attention.
Kayla and her husband live in North Carolina in an almost empty nest.
Before Brock Myers was a mom, she worked as an advertising copywriter, selling everything from bricks to legal counsel. Today, her most common inspiration for writing continues to be her children; she’s mom to one son and two daughters, the youngest of whom was formerly diagnosed with the inattentive type of ADHD when she was in sixth grade. A longtime reader and fan of “Who Put the Ketchup in the Medicine Cabinet?,” Brock has recently joined Kayla in sharing her own experiences with teens, ADHD-I and life in general.
Brock and her husband make their home in the middle east and visit North Carolina as often as their schedule allows.
Brock and Kayla met at summer camp when they were eleven, although only Brock remembers their early acquaintance. It was in college that a friendship grew between the two women that has withstood the test of time, space, and ADHD. To protect the privacy of their children, both Brock and Kayla are pen names.
