| Imagine yourself for a moment as a child with ADD. | | | | imagine someone telling you that you have to do |
| You have a problem concentrating for any length of | | | | everything with your left hand if you are right handed |
| time. You often find yourself overwhelmed when you | | | | or with your right if you are left handed. Sounds |
| have more than one thing to do at a time. You often | | | | difficult, right? That is what it feels like to be a child with |
| start projects but then get bored and move on to | | | | ADD. |
| something else. You may have 20 different projects | | | | The good news is that the child with ADD is in very |
| going at one time and be switching back and forth | | | | good company. Some of the brightest minds, the |
| between them. You may find it very difficult to | | | | greatest leaders and the most innovative inventors |
| concentrate in school during a lecture and find your | | | | had ADD. Albert Einstein had ADD. Winston Churchill |
| thoughts wandering. Other kids around you all seem to | | | | had ADD. So did President Lincoln and President |
| be on the same wavelength but you are not. Instead, | | | | Kennedy. And beloved Benjamin Franklin. So many |
| you feel left out. This is what it feels like to be a child | | | | other talented entertainers and entrepreneurs have or |
| with ADD. | | | | had ADD. They did not allow this disorder to affect |
| If you are a child with ADD, you find it difficult to | | | | them. They carried on and continued to, shall we say, |
| concentrate on anything for more than a few | | | | write with the hand they favored, despite what people |
| moments. But in school, you will have to be able to | | | | thought. |
| listen to the teacher and complete an assignment. | | | | If you are going to help a child with ADD, you must first |
| What is more, the teacher will often give you specific | | | | understand how he or she thinks. You should not use |
| directions that you have to follow to get the | | | | drugs to make someone write with the "right" hand. |
| assignment done. It may be very hard for you to | | | | Instead, you should teach them through therapy the |
| organize your thoughts so that you can complete the | | | | way to use their favored hand in a way that will let |
| project. You may often find the teacher making | | | | them thrive. Drugging children with ADD does nothing |
| comments like "he does not pay attention in class," or | | | | to help them. But if you use proper therapy to help a |
| "she cannot follow directions." This is what it feels like | | | | child with ADD, you can teach the child how to make |
| to be a child with ADD. | | | | the most of this condition. |
| Are you right or left handed? For a moment, try to | | | | |