'Parenting not-so-neurotypical children requires a willingness to break every rule and parenting myth you’ve ever read in any parenting handbook — and to do so confidently, courageously, and with love as our guiding principle.'
As a mom whose children have ADHD, I’ve learned to get over some stuff — little and big. Like, you know, most of what society expects from me as a modern mother.
Funny toast in a shape of fish, sandwich with cream cheese and berries, food for kids idea, blue wooden background, top viewBreakfast, lunch, and dinner? Ha! Try small breakfast, snack, snack, small lunch, snack, dinner, snack. Or omit major meals altogether and subsume them all into one long snacking episode. My kids can whine for cake pops at Starbucks ten minutes after they swore they were stuffed and threw out their half-eaten hamburgers.
Two adorable little sibling kid boys having fun in bed after sleeping at home, indoor. Brothers smiling at the camera. Family, vacation, childhood concept. Selective focus on one childWe homeschool, with all the luxury of a summer schedule all year round. Often, my kids decide at 8:45pm toon a block castle, a book on Bigfoot, an intricate battle of plastic Army dudes.
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