The Little Monster: Growing Up With ADHD
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I am always looking for a way to better understand my ADHD child. I am also looking for ways to explain it to others–teachers, other parents, my family. This book is a fantastic tool to that end! It is personal, emotional, scarey, moving. It just may be the best way I have seen in a while to get past denial and the thought that ADHD is something we can dismiss as bad parenting or deliberate bad behavior. It is great to see the postive aspects of ADHD highlighted. Any story that give my child a postive way to look at himself is helpful. We all need that. But finding it for an ADHD kid has not always been easy. Robert Jergen has just made it easier and has lightened my load. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Rob’s book is an easy read that should be required reading for all teachers and parents that interact with diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals with ADHD. It not only brings to light what it “feels” like to have ADHD but brings some practical suggestions and accomodations to the table for individuals to try. The book can also bring a ray of hope to the daily frustrations many parents and teachers experience by illustrating the success an ADHD person can achieve focusing on the strengths and positive aspects of this alternative mind wiring.
This book has made it to my list of favorites! Robert Jergen’s recollections of growing up as a child with undiagnosed ADHD is both hilarious, touching and educational. As the sibling of a child with ADHD, I can attest to the reality of which Jergen writes, a reality that probably seems unbelievable to those with no experience with ADHD. Although Jergen experienced more sadness and loneliness than most of us by adulthood, his self-diagnosis of ADHD as a young adult brought his entire life into focus and inspired him to see his “disorder” as a gift, rather than an affliction. His account of the complexities of his journey is both easy-to-read and hard-to-put-down. I highly recommend it to anyone living with or working with children with ADHD, or to anyone who just enjoys an entertaining story!