Recommended Reading

Susan Braun is the mother of three wonderful girls, and the author of Girls in White Dresses - a wonderful blog about all things parenting. She's also a long time reader of "Who Put the Ketchup in the Medicine Cabinet?". Without mentioning names, let's just say that Susan is very familiar with inattention. A while ago, Susan contacted me about a new children's book she had written called, "Sophie, Pay Attention!". It's about a little girl who has trouble attending. Because she's so scatterbrained, her family sometimes doesn't pay attention to everything Sophie says, either. It's a … [Read more...]

What's Food Got To Do With It? - This instructional guide to ADHD dieting gives a broad overview foods which often cause allergic reactions. The ADD Nutrition Solution offers substitutes for these and other problem foods, and a way to isolate items that aggravate symptoms. It is also very acclaimed for offering many substitutes to the drugs meant to help a case of ADHD, such as Ritalin. What's Food Got To Do With It? takes home a sweet spot on our recommended reading list, because it does more than just tell what the problem is, but it tells you how to get around it. Read … [Read more...]

Is This Your Child? - This book by Doris Rapp gives suggestions about how reactions to foods and environmental factors can be recognized, prevented, and treated. With this information, children with food allergies may feel, act, behave, and learn better. She offers a way to cross-examine your child's diet and the foods that may worsen a case of ADHD. Is This Your Child? is a great book to caution parents on improper diets for those children, and adults, with ADHD. We recommend it! … [Read more...]

Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World - This book includes 10 minute a day exercises to unlock the potential of your ADD child. It is truly fascinating, and it's one of my favorites. The book warns not to criticize or be ungrateful of ADHD, but to rather accept and take advantage of the incredible characteristics that ADHD unlocks. Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World is not just great because of its exercises, but because of it's theme of accepting ADHD as a beneficial characteristic. Read it! … [Read more...]

Driven to Distraction -Written by two doctors with ADHD, this book is primarily about adult ADHD, but it provides good insight into the disorder, as well as ways for parents to help their child. However, the book also provides a substantial amount of information on how to assist adults with ADHD. An audio cassette is also available. Driven to Distraction is a very resourceful book for treating ADHD in children and adults alike, making it very high up on our recommended reading list.   … [Read more...]

The LCP Solution - Recent research has suggested that many people with ADHD and learning differences suffer from a dietary deficiency of fatty acids. In her book The LCP Solution, Jacqueline Stordy cites studies where supplementing the diet with LCPs has produced improvement in children's focus, learning, and levels of anxiety. The LCP Solution is a remarkable work on healthy dieting for those with ADHD, and should be staying on the recommended reading list for quite a while. … [Read more...]

Good Friends Are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Find, Make and Keep Friends - Help your child make friends with the wonderfully practical advice and step by step instructions found in this book. A lot of the time, when kids feel like can't make friends, it's because they're looking in the wrong places! This great book also deals with teasing and bullying so that you can rest assured that your child is happy with his friends and social life. Good Friends Are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Find, Make and Keep Friends is another amazing book that has certainly earned its place on our recommended … [Read more...]

Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embracing Disorganization at Home and in the Workplace - this book is a must for those mothers who have ADHD along with their child. Solden assures that it is not just males who have ADHD, and expands on many different options for treatment and encourages major improvement by laying out three major steps: restructuring your life, renegotiating your relationships, and redefining your self-image. Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embracing Disorganization at Home and in the Workplace is definitely on our recommended reading list so that you can help … [Read more...]

How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children - This book is full of practical techniques, strategies, and interventions for helping children with attention problems and hyperactivity-- The operative word here is practical. I have used many of the ideas in this great book at home and at school! Rief employs many different strategies used to reach out to the kids with ADHD, many of which are not traditionally used in most schools. How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children is an extremely insightful novel, and definitely deserves its place on our recommended reading list.   … [Read more...]