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Thank you both for your suggestions.  My apologies for not responding earlier.  I don’t always have access to a computer unless my husband’s work computer is here.  Ours is broken.

The links and posts have been interesting.  The Ferrarri brain may help my daughters understand better.  My goal is to help them understand, have empathy, tolerance, etc  so they don’t resent their brother.  So they recognize the ADHD not that their brother is “not trying” (frequent phrase in our house).  My son is very funny and we joke he’s going to be a famous comedian when he grows up and his sisters will become famous, and not necessarily they way they want to be ;-).  Right now it doesn’t seem to bother him that  he has an ADHD diagnosis, nor does it bother me that he or my husband have it.  As far as I’m concerned it answers a lot of questions, so let’s move on and find out what works.  My husband is a different story, it bothers him greatly.  So much so that I’m afraid he’s going to rant off about it and make my son feel bad for having it.  Sorry, of topic.

I’ve read a number of Barkley’s books plus a number written by different authors.  Barkley’s I read first.  The other seem to support what I read in his books.  Corey’s Stories was interesting when I read it to my son.  He tuned into the parts that he could relate to.  We’d snuggle at bedtime to read his story and he’s play with some Lego while I read.  When I started reading some parts he would turn and look at the pictures and talk about how the samething happens to him.  We’ve taken parts of the story and incorporated it into our lives.  When he gets in others personal space we take about the square.  He’s 8, he’s fun and he’s completely adorable.  I just don’t want his sister’s to forget it.

Thank you so much!

 

 

 

 

 

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