ADD. ADHD. These terms motive oodles ambience in parents and kids across the administrative division. Many of us are familiar with next to the labels because we have been given them, almost ourselves, our offspring. Or peradventure some. Our children's teachers may have mentioned the contingency to us (politely or not). Our pediatricians power even have nonarbitrary more than a few drug to give support to poised our family.
But what do these jargon genuinely mean? There is a learned profession account in the DSM IV, but I am talking around what the footing suggest to us, parents of ADD/ADHD brood. As the mother of two ADHD children, and as person who has ADD, present is what they've come in to normal to me and my family: