The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with ADD/ADHD: A Reassuring Guide to Getting the Right Diagnosis, Understanding Treatments, and Helping Your

The Everything Parent's Guide To Children With ADD/ADHD: A Reassuring Guide To Getting The Right Diagnosis, Understanding Treatments, And Helping Your Child Focus (Everything: Parenting and Family) Although this book is primarily for parents of children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, it is also helpful for spouses of adults with ADD/ADHD. I have found the information to be valuable all the way around and this book has a permanent place on my bookshelf.

I will just put my letter to Dr. Sonna. It sums up the way I feel about this book. This book literally changed my son and I's lives. You owe it to your child to read this before you medicate them. Please trust me on this. Dear Dr. Sonna, I had to send you this email because I'm about to burst with gratitude. Your book was so insightful, so down-to-earth, all the things a parent could wish for when they are broken-hearted and travel-weary from searching for answers. I am actually going to take this book to my son's teacher and gently encourage her to read it. I especially enjoyed and appreciated the fact sections throughout and how you encouraged parents to become lobbyists and advocates and pointed out the built-in flaws in our legislation that allows for pharmaceutical companies to benefit from the way diagnosis is currently set up. I agreed whole-heartedly with all of your suggestions and was delighted to see someone not shy away from what could be deemed politically-charged statements. So excuse my run-on sentences and please know that you have shored me up when I needed it the most, which of course means you have shored up my son. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reminding me I am his only true advocate in a way no one else will ever be. What a wonderful gift you have and how fortunate we are that you chose to share it. I sincerely hope that many blessings come your way for the good work you have done. Much Gratitude, Cathy Piper-Lally

Finally someone has written a book that seems to understand the problems that parents and kids have dealing with ADD. She knows that medication is not the only answer to ADD and in fact, bravely offers better solutions by way of food, nutrition, sleep, and PATIENCE...all things that can be done without chemical interventions and will bring about lasting life changes.