Becca Colao ADHD, Current Affairs 0 Comments
I'm speaking at the 2010 Virtual AD/HD Conference. Yay! My topic is related to the social connections issues I've talked about some in this blog. I'm happy to speaking at this conference because besides the many cool and interesting speakers, I can "go" without traveling, which is pretty hard to do with an infant and […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Current Affairs, Inattentive, PMS/PMDD ADD, ADHD, anxiety, cnn, depression, inattentive, menopause, pms, women with adhd 0 Comments
I love that this article about women and adhd made it into the mainstream (cnn) press. It has some good things to offer, and a few things lacking that I'd like to point out. Good:"When adult ADD (or ADHD: the H is for hyperactivity) goes untreated for years, women may end up plagued by anxiety, […]
Becca Colao ADHD Coaching, Current Affairs, Executive Function, Inattentive ADD coaching, ADHD, ADHD coaching, inattentive, intelligence, IQ 1 Comment
…"researchers find." Link is here, and really the biggest thing I want to say about this, is thank goodness. Thank goodness that researchers are bothering to find out this fact, which may seem obvious to some of us. The fact they are finding is not so much that high IQ doesn't "help" but that high […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Current Affairs, Learning ADD, ADHD, chewing gum, classroom, exercise ball, hyperactivity, inattentive, learning 0 Comments
I recently read that one elementary school has opted to replace regular chairs with exercise balls. It seems that the school has figured out what a lot of us already knew (especially those of us working from home): the active nature of sitting on the ball helps posture, gives us that added work in our […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Current Affairs, Executive Function, Inattentive, Systems, Thinking 0 Comments
In an earlier post I said that when other people told me I worried too much I used to think they were right, and get, well, worried. And that now I get annoyed instead, which is an improvement. Nowadays I think about it in terms of how I work. As I said in that post, […]
Becca Colao Baby, Current Affairs, Mommy, PMS/PMDD 0 Comments
Why am I concerned about all this plastics stuff? I try to stay low-key about all the safety concerns and toxins concerns. I have enough to take care of. I have enough issues without making up no-buy lists I don’t have to. I’ve seen how hard it is for people who really have to avoid […]