Happiness through misdirection
“You don’t act like you have ADHD.” Our older son has ADHD. He had numerous assessments done and they all got the same results. The fact that I have ADHD really only helped us know what the signs are. He recently started a camp with a teacher he hadn’t seen in a few years. He…
The other day my wife wasn’t feeling well so she stayed home from work. Our son noticed this, of course, and asked me about it. I told him that mama would be home when he got home from school, but that she wasn’t feeling well. “I have to be gentle with her,” he said. “I’ll…
The other day I was talking to a friend of mine about our respective childhoods, comparing notes, in a way. While our upbringings were very different, they were thematically the same. Our motivation to do good — or to not do bad — was the same: fear. Fear is fear is fear. Whether it stems from years…