A few years ago, I stopped looking forward to the holidays. However, as I’m signing off today, saying farewell until after Christmas, I’m feeling downright excited again. When I was younger, I loved this time of year: first we had Thanksgiving, then my birthday, then Christmas and New Years. The weather got chilly and the […]
Author: Jaclyn Paul
Put a basket on it: how to work with an ADHD visual thinker
The clothes were everywhere. Despite my best efforts — which included, interchangably, nagging, reminding, insisting, or just cleaning them up myself — my husband managed to keep several surfaces in our bedroom covered with clothes. The top of his dresser was the worst: always concealed under a heap of shirts, jeans, and hoodies. “But I’m going […]
Why I’m not buying my kid nice things for Christmas
Unsurprisingly, I’ve been doing some toy shopping lately, adding an inventory of enticing playthings to R.’s Amazon wish list. Does anyone else find this incredibly overstimulating? As I pored over the Amazon product page for a popular play kitchen, I got that familiar feeling in my brain: there was just too much going on. The […]