Time Out

If you have a child who exhibits ADHD symptoms, look carefully at your household, your parenting, your child’s diet… and trust your gut. If your family is not wildly dysfunctional but you have a kid who is out of control, get help. Find a doctor who works with ADHD kids. Have your child evaluated. If my son’s diagnosis had been given when he was 5 or 6 instead of 12, our lives would have been very different.

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Obama and Tonya #3

I am thrilled to have lived to see an African American president of the U.S. I am 61 years old. When I was growing up, even in Nebraska segregation was the status quo if not the law. I was a new mom in the late sixties, when Omaha experienced race riots in the stifling heat of two consecutive summers.
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