ADHD Family Online Announcement
October 7, 2008 
19 Comments
Here’s a short 3 1/2 minute video update on the upcoming ADHD Family Online announcement.
Contest Details:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KDkuyMtqm8..
**In the comments below, please answer the following questions to enter your chance to win a complimentary 1-year membership on us:
- Tell us what you think the membership price will be. (Come within $0.99) for a chance to win.
- I’d like you to tell us the following:
- What are you struggling with the most right now?
- How will a one-year membership pass make a difference for you?
Enter today for your chance to win one of two complimentary membership passes. We’ll let you know on the teleseminar scheduled for October 26th @ 9 PM EST.
If you are NOT on the priority notification list, there is still time to take part in this event. Register today!
I think the membership will be $99 (I sure do hope I’m close!)…I am struggling with helping my son with his fairly new diagnosis with ADHD. He is 6 years old, but I’ve known in my heart that this would be an issue since he was an infant. He is an identical twin. His twin suffered a stroke in utero resulting in right hemiplegic cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus. I also have 3 other children. My son’s ADHD doesn’t just affect him, it also affects the rest of our family. We all need help…our relationships are spiraling out of control. In getting his diagnosis, I am finding that it is possible that I also have ADD…many projects, procrastinate, never seem to accomplish any one task before moving onto another. I really believe that this membership will help me to see that there is good in my son’s diagnosis, that we can help him, that we can have peace in our family. Not to mention that we are just not in a financial situation to really afford any resources right now. I want to help my son and don’t know how….
#1: My guess is that the monthly membership amount would be $4.99.
#2: I don’t know that any one site could give me all that I am looking for, but here is what I would LOVE to get… I would like to learn how to handle my own ADHD in a manner that benefits not only me but my two ADHD kids, and my ADHD/OCD husband. I would like to learn ways to NOT have a total disconnect with my 15yo daughter, and help her learn ways to deal with her own issues with ADHD and seizures. I would like to learn ways to continue my good relationship with my 12yo son, help him develop ways to cope with his ADHD and his self-esteem issues, and not go down the path that his sister has chosen. I would like to learn ways to ‘fix’ a very strained relationship with my husband, and help him to see that we are not ‘bad’ people, just different, and learn how to all work together without knocking each other down along the way. Basically, I would like to learn ways to hold this family together, not let it splinter into 4 directions and fall apart. Like I said at the beginning, I don’t know that just one site could do all that… but I hold out hope that it is possible!!
Thank you!!
Monthly membership cost will be $9.99.
Not much keeps me awake at night, but my larger concerns are how to express to employers that despite my differences, I can be a HUGE asset. (That’s had in a very volatile economic climate like we’re in right now.)
What I would get is a myriad of ideas on how to tackle the challenges I face as well as what I will face as my children go through school.
1. $5.00 – What ever it is please make it affordable for teachers (and others in a squeeze with this economy).
2. I struggle most with convincing my students, parents, & colleagues that ADHD is not really a disability but a different style of learning.
3. I am hoping that a one-year membership will provide me with current research and strategies that work for people who learn best in an active learning setting. I need this information to be in a form that is quick to read and implement; I don’t have a lot of time during the day to read and develop materials to help my students and their parents.
Monthly membership cost will be $12.99.
We need more family strategies to make our life easier. My husband is ADD (but won’t admit it), our 11 yo daughter is ADD & G/T (she is the one who asked the question on the Thursday night teleseminar about whether you have ADHD and know how stressful it feels!), our 8 yo son has autism with ADHD characteristics, and his 8 yo twin sister has mild ADD. Me too — more than I want to admit to. The inability to get my family to commit to a schedule to make everybody’s life easier makes me crazy! We have lots of love & a crazy lifestyle that does not suit anybody. Too much chaos and commotion. I cannot convince my husband that more routines are necessary (he’s a part time SAHD) and meanwhile, things just keep getting stressful. Thanks for your input. Love your Twitter updates!
I think the annual fee may be $150.00
My entire family is suffering and miserable. We cannot/do not know how to handle our adhd 13 yr old son. There is so much UN-Necessary confusion, anger, resentment, hurt and STRESS.
My son wakes everyday to another day of all of the above. He has to be defensive in every aspect of his life. From his family, his extended family, teachers, friends, neighbors and community. They all view him as BAD. How can this kid get up every morning and face this. We love him dearly and would do anything for him but I DON”T THINK HE KNOWS IT or FEELS IT.
My hopes would be any information to help to heal my family especially my son.
4.99 would be the cost of the website. This website would be invaluable to me as a therapist who deals with children with ADHD and their parents who also may have ADHD, as a parent of adult children with ADHD and as a grandmother with an ADHD grandchild. I also facilitate ADHD parenting classes and do my best to keep up with all of the latest information to pass on to these families — especially for parents of children who have just been diagnosed. These are the reasons this site would be invaluable to me..
1. I think the monthly cost will be $19.99.
2. a. What keeps me up at night right now is keeping my 10 yr old son up to date with his homework at school. His executive skills are lacking and I’ve done the research and given him all the tools, he just won’t use them consistently. What do I do next.
b. I’m hoping this membership will help me with all of the struggles I have with his ADHD/ODD. The weight gain issues are becoming a serious problem. I look forward to having additional resources. But more, I look forward to the positive support the membership will provide.
1: The annual cost will be $97.00
2: The access to me will mean getting information on a professional level with experts that understand the questions I ask. I don’t know where else to go, I am locked in to my health insurance benefit that is restrictive. My 16yo son has been seeing a therapist for a year now and is no closer to understanding himself than he was a year ago. He has all the same struggles, but does not connect the dots…This son is adhd combined type, as am I, so at least he is able to get a lot of his frustrations out verbally. He has now been put on an antidepressant, I feel he is getting depressed because his issues with adhd are unaddressed-they do certainly come into conflict with the “real” world. My 12yo son is adhd inattentive, his difficulties are much more painful to him as he keeps things bottled up. Both my children have been identified as gifted and talented. My husband is about as left-brained as you can get, I’m sure a compensatory strategy on my part to stay connected in this world. He just doesn’t “get it”. He gets frustrated with us and needs some guidance on understanding. This is such an elusive problem for us, easy to stay hidden, but the toll it takes from a life is enormous. Coming from a family, Mom, Dad, and 5 siblings all ADHD-why is it so difficult to identify and handle? My siblings deny its existence even as their children are on stimulant medication and under-achieving, way below their intellectual ability. Where are the answers that all the experts assure me are out there. Why is there no good communication for families that are struggling with life. All the expert books remain academic unless we have a real means of communication to help the people who are struggling. Teachers are not getting it, Mom’s and Dad’s try their best, but unless you live this its tough not to communicate disappointment. All the time our kids are adding up those experiences that tell them about how they don’t measure up and how broken they are. Then you get to be an adult and you learn to settle and hide. Why is this so difficult to bring to light for everyone. I believe we are shortchanging everyone in society from a most creative and innovative wellspring, to say nothing of the pain we as ADDer’s suffer from knowing that we are not understood by others. I know medication is not the answer, and unless others are willing to roll up their sleeves and show families a better way, we will all stay in the dark and continue to lose out.
I think the monthly price will be $3.99
We have a 7 year old slightly hearing impaired daughter who struggles with ADHD. She finds it difficult to make friendships because of all that goes on in her life. Focusing is such a struggle for her that she is behind in everything she does. and although this is all a big concern I struggle more because I don’t know how to help her with all the issues that are associated with ADHD. There is the emotional of course but also the physical stuff related to taking the medications such as having no appetite and having a difficult time falling asleep which of course leads to a viscious cycle of her lacking in nutrition and rest so she becomes even more unfocused. I wish I knew treatments that could help instead of the medications. A one year membership will allow me to connect more with other parents going through the same issues and perhaps give me some coping strategies. Regardless of whether I win or no I hope the membership is affordable so that all types of people and families can afford it.
I am hoping the monthly price won’t be more than $4.99. The people who need it the most are usually the ones who can afford it the least.
I was diagnosed with ADD while I was having my youngest son tested about 10 years ago. Every time the Dr. Would ask him a question, my own answers were almost always the same as his. No wonder I struggled while raising my children. They couldn’t do what I was expecting of them because I couldn’t do it either.
Dealing with the emotional pain of a lifetime of undiagnosed ADD has taken such a toll on me. Add to that the attitude of a husband that just doesn’t understand – or believe that it is an actual condition, and you have the makings of a very stressful life.
I am hoping that you will show us how to get rid of the feelings of guilt & shame. And give us some tangible ways of dealing with everyday life.
I know that the financial aspect of this problem affects every family that is dealing with it, so I am praying that you will make it affordable for EVERYONE!!!
1) My guess is $49.95, it’s not to high and not to low.
2) I NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET, AND HOPEFULLY I COULD WIN THE FREE YEAR OF MEMBERSHIP.
3) I don’t even know where to start. I am married with 4 kids and it is a single income family. I can not go out to work because i may get a phone call anytime from the school because my 6 1/2 year old son is having a meltdown there or my 9 year old daughter, is having a anixty attack. My daughter was diagnosis about 4-5 years ago with ADHD with high Anixty, she has been on so much medicaion. That it has messed her up and is very under weight. She is on her way to get re-tested for Autism, learning disability, and ADHD. My husband and I think she has Autism and she may have Trichotillomania because she started to pull out her eye brow, eyelashes, and started to pull her hair out at the back of her head. This has been going on for about 8 months.
My son, who is 6 1/2 years old, is ADHD with behaviour problems. As I am writing this I got a call from the school because he had hands on. We are working with the school and with doctors. My other daughter is 7 1/2 years old, has not been tested but my have ADD and learning disability because she also is having problem in school. My youngest son he is 5 years old, he to may have ADD with speech delay.
My husband is ADHD and is having problems at work, with the Stress and Anixty. I am at home and to have ADD.
Our hands our FULL and need all the HELP we can get. Please help and get my kids off the Meds. that are harming them. I want them to be kids, not kids so high that they can’t do anything, but, just sit and watch T.V. and have problems eatting because they are not hunger from the mends. Thank you.
I am guessing the annual cost would be $132.
The biggest struggles for our ADHD 9 year old daughter are getting ready for school in the morning and bed at night without screaming, drag out fights. She is on medication so the day goes pretty well. She is so thin due to her medication and her active life, that we have to take her for weigh-in quarterly. We want to learn strategies for dealing with melt downs and getting/keeping peace and harmony in our home. I’d like to see her learn coping stategies so she can monitor her own behavior and organization.
1. Tell us what you think the membership price will be. (Come within $0.99) for a chance to win.
$ 9.99
2. I’d like you to tell us the following:
* What are you struggling with the most right now?
My kid is too energitic. I am trying to make him perform well in his tests and Continuous assessment.
* How will a one-year membership pass make a difference for you?
It will make me learn learn more fromp this course and heve more ideas to deal with my children.
I think the monthly cost might be around $12.99?
I would love to tap into the professional advice being offered here. We all want the best for our children, whether they have extra difficulties or not. It is a sad fact that although we will struggle to make sure that there may be extra support put into place to help our children with autistic spectrum disorders, in the school system, at the end of the day, there are teachers, and other adults with influence, who will just never get it, either because they dont want to, or because of their own personal stresses. I’d just like to know therefore, if it’s going to be enough for us as parents, just to be as positive as we can for our adhd kids, keep them as motivated as we can at home and out of school, to help them get as much as they can out of life, or ar they necessarily destined to head for an adult lifestyle, which is more likely to involve drugs-prescribed or otherwise, alcohol addiction, depression, just because of the way they get sooo down on themselves, despite our best efforts to keep them up? Which, in any case, is exhausting for parents/carers! We need positive news, positive case histories, top tips on staying positive for our children,and lots of help on what really works, and what doesn’t!
My guess for pricing would be $59.95 per year. As others have noted in this economy I hope it is a lot less. I could not afford even that right now.
What are you struggling with the most right now?
How will a one-year membership pass make a difference for you? My answers to these questions are all rolled into one! Right now my struggle is with my 9 year old son’s teacher. I feel like she is one of those teachers that expects all children to be round pegs she can neatly put into round holesm, and my son is the square peg. She is determined to shave his corners and make him fit instead of trying to stretch her hold into a square! Although for the most part he is bring home high grades (100%’s and above in some cases!) with an occassional lower grade here and there she has called my husband and I late at night twice since school started to complain that he cannot stay on task in class. She has to remind him so often that he ends up with check marks and then looses recess – which every child deserves to have! He is on medication and we are working with his doctor to make sure the level of medication is enough. Maybe I am just disappointed since his last two teachers did an excellent job of appropriate expectations but altering their own perceptions of appropriate when it expecting him to be like everyone else is not appropriate! I need support and guidance to not feel like it is them against me when I go in for a conference.
I’m hoping the price isn’t more than $4.99/month. Unfortunately, the people that need it the most are sometimes the ones who can afford it the least.
What I’m struggling the most with right now is raising our 4 year old ADD grandson, and being ADD myself. I don’t know how to help him because I don’t know how to help myself!!!
I look forward to getting some stradegy’s on how an ADD parent (or grandparent) can raise a child (or children) also with ADD and make it work!
“ADHD is a gift whose packaging is sometimes difficult to unwrap” ~Ned Hallowell
Hoping that you’ll price site around $4/month, which is $48/year. Perhaps the benefits of having a popular site will generate abundant value over and above money support membership contributions will bring in directly. My former spouse, myself and our now adult kids all live with the gifts and challenges of adhd brainstyling.
I will wisely use a free membership, if I’m one of the folks you choose, to help expand understanding and collaboration about our wonderfully diverse minds – to facilitate attitudinal and functional change in ourselves and in our communities as a coach and mentor for families, individuals and groups.
I hope the monthly cost is 7.99
I know it’s worth so much more but that’s what I would be able to pay. I’m an adult and grown tired of the struggle of too focused or unfocused. It takes so long to complete a project. I’m I single Mom w/dependent child,student and any help would be wonderful!