Brendas Wardrobe Companion or Moms with ADD

Brenda's Wardrobe Companion: A Workbook for Getting the Look You Want, with the Clothes You Love

Author: Brenda Kinsel

A fashion expert and image consultant for real women with real bodies, Brenda Kinsel helps readers match their clothes to their personal style. Brenda's Wardrobe Companion walks the reader through the same affirming process that the author's clients experience before they go shopping. Readers assess the qualities they wish to project through clothes, analyze nonclothing clues to their personal message, and learn how to focus on what works — all in preparation for the ultimate goal: buying the right clothes and dressing on their own. With color illustrations throughout, this series of "private" sessions with a leading image consultant work as a companion book to the author's popular fashion bibles.

Moms with ADD: A Self-Help Manual

Author: Christine A Adamec

Guaranteed to make moms with ADD happier at home and at the office.

Library Journal

It's tough enough to live with attention deficit disorder (ADD), but adding motherhood to the mix can be overwhelming. Adamec (How To Live with a Mentally Ill Person, LJ 7/96) offers sound advice on how a mother with ADD can deal with the everyday tasks of running a home, working with teachers, juggling work, and solving family problems. Regarding school issues, the author shares tips on preparing for a conference, helping that includes homework, and considering such alternatives as charter schools. Helpful diets, prescribed medications, and support groups are also covered.Above all, for ADD moms plagued with guilt and self-blame, Adamec gives positive, it's-gonna-work-out advice. A highly helpful, practical guide for all public libraries that indludes web sites, organizations, camps, and school info.--Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, PA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Chris Adamec does a great job of describing the dilemmas faced by women with ADD as they try to keep up with the juggling act of raising children and managing a household, often while holding down a full-time job...At times she is sympathetic and humorous, at other times, very serious as she reviews a wide range of concerns.

After opening chapters that focus more on women's ADD issues, Chris turns to parenting---from pregnancy and new motherhood, to the elementary school years, to high school. At each step of the way she offers quotes from mothers with ADD as well as from female professionals in the field, almost giving the reader the feeling that she is sitting in a support group for moms with ADD.

What People Are Saying

Colleen Alexander-Roberts
Extremely valuable and empowering...A MUST-READ for mothers with ADD who are trying to raise a family, balance a career, and maintain a home while dealing with this syndrome. This book is a gold-mine resource filled with practical information, advice, and valuable suggestions for the reader. I enthusiastically recommend it. (Colleen Alexander-Roberts, author of The ADHD Parenting Handbook.)

Sari Solden
Finally, the life instruction manual women with ADD have waited and wished for. Full of helpful and specific suggestions as well as emotionally validating and guilt reducing! (Sari Solden, MS, author of Women with Attention Deficit Disorder)

Terry Matlen
This refreshing, easy-to-navigate book is a must-have for any mom touched by attentional difficulties. (Terry Matlen, MSW, ACSW, vice president of the national ADDA.)

Table of Contents:

Foreword xiii
Part One Add Moms in a Non-Add World: Practical Coping Strategies 1
The Key to Add: Basic Issues 3
Zeroing in on the Good Aspects of Add 19
Working on Solutions to Common ADD Problems 31
Juggling Family and Work: The Family 57
Juggling Family and Work: The Workplace 69

Part Two Family Matters 77
Your Children Have Add Or Don't 79
You Have A Baby: But What If You Have Add Too? 93
Parenting The School-Age Child: The Basics 103
The Add Mom and The Adolescent: Now There Is a Challenge! 115
School Daze: Your Child Goes to School 123

Part Three Special Struggles 143
Coping With Difficult or Painful Emotions that May 145
Coping With Holidays and Other Tough Times 159

Part Four Getting Outside Help 165
Professional Help 167
Medications That May Help 175
Support Groups, Coaching and Other 187
Appendix A: Recommended Books 191
Appendix B: Magazines and Jounals 193
Appendix C: National Organizations 195
Appendix D: Support Groups for Adults with Add 197
Appendix E: Websites and Listservs 201
Appendix F: Summer Camps with Programs for Kids with Add 203
Appendix G: State Contacts for Charter School Information 205
Appendix H: Products That May Be Helpful 209
Bibliography 211
Index 217