Description
<p>Does your child have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?</p><p>Meet David, one of award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon's "Classroom of Kids," who manages his ADHD with the help of classmates.</p><p>David discovers ways to cope with his hyperactive brain, while learning how to calm and soothe his ADHD. Solutions include setting daily schedules and following simple rules that regulate behavior. His teachers and therapists encourage using the computer for academic advancement, and to establish a pattern for study as well as for occasional recreation. David not only learns self-control and communication skills, but is able to fit into the classroom and make friends.</p><p>Once again social values are emphasized in the author's latest illustrated children's story, and classroom friends from previous books are featured. In fact, David has been part of the class for a long time!</p><p><strong><em>"David's ADHD</em></strong><em> is a timely topic for parents and children. A story in rhyme that demystifies ADHD. It explains a youngster's behavior in terms of his inattentiveness and impulsivity and how it impacts those around him. A sensitive way of creating understanding for children with ADHD and their families."</em> - <strong>Dr. Valerie Allen, licensed school psychologist</strong></p><p><strong>Author Bio: </strong></p><p>Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won 76 awards for her previous 11 rhyming books. She is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. The author has been called "an absolute master of rhyming" and "a modern-day Dr. Seuss."</p>
Story Behind The Book
Three hours into last night’s happy hour, I struck up a conversation with the mixed-gender group of folks next to us. Quickly, we all dove into conversation on the familiar, hot-button topic of women versus men in outlooks on sex & dating. One of the guys in their group (whom I had never met before in my life) was not only agreed with all the guys’ points of view, he frequently doubled over laughing.
He and I then specifically asked two ladies in the group to scan the entire room. There were approximately one hundred total women in the bar. We wanted these two ladies to literally point out women that we two guys would not sleep with, if somehow those ladies made themselves available to either of us at end of the evening.
The two ladies quickly and correctly eliminated the obvious choices which was great - but not the point. The fact that they failed to realize that some women’s poor fashion choices – at least in their eyes - would not rule them out as sex options is not the point either.
In fact, the full point we’re trying to make didn’t occur from the analysis of any specific woman in that bar.
The point is, I had only met this guy minutes before yet he and I saw the same physical qualities in every woman. The two women making choices based on their opinions instead of our opinions attempted to argue us guys down. There were a handful of women in the bar that they thought we should see in the same light as they did.