Comments on: ADHD Family Online Announcement

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:17:04 +0000

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!

By: Sharon Stewart

Sharon Stewart — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:55:42 +0000

“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.

By: Wendy Stevens

Wendy Stevens — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:18:40 +0000

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!

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:14:39 +0000

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.

By: Elaine de Ste Croix

Elaine de Ste Croix — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:54:33 +0000

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!

By: Salim

Salim — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:41:09 +0000

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.

By: Sherrill

Sherrill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:35:11 +0000

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.

By: Sharon Leach

Sharon Leach — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:13:36 +0000

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.

By: Wendy Stevens

Wendy Stevens — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:46:22 +0000

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!!!

By: Tammy Zimmerman

Tammy Zimmerman — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:54:18 +0000

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.