Jen’s Reviews > Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child > Status Update

I am getting very tired of this book. There is a lot of cheerleading and anecdotes, but not a lot of substance. It points often to other resources, most expensive, without feeling like its giving solid strategies for help.

Chapter on Conation is perhaps the first solidly helpful and applicable chapter, rather than the previous chapters, which focused on why it is important to see ADD as a gift and to live your child. (That particular emphasis feels a little insulting).

Chapter on Conation is perhaps the first solidly helpful and applicable chapter, rather than the previous chapters, which focused on why it is important to see ADD as a gift and to live your child. (That particular emphasis feels a little insulting).

Chapter on Conation is perhaps the first solidly helpful and applicable chapter, rather than the previous chapters, which focused on why it is important to see ADD as a gift and to live your child. (That particular emphasis feels a little insulting).

“Get educated. Don’t listen to only one person. Don’t rely only on medication, and don’t refuse to try it.”

A race car brain with bicycle brakes, as an analogy for ADD, and as a way to explain the diagnosis. “A diagnosis should kindle hope,” pg 44.

“Time is different. In the world of ADD there are really only two times: now and not now. Test in a week? Not now. While a child who doesn’t have ADD will start to plan how to get ready for the test, the child who has ADD waits until the test enters the zone of now, and then, in a panic, starts to prepare.”