Sue Scheff: Drop Your Reins Event - Peaceful Solutions for ADHD/ADD & Autistic Children Using Natural Horsemanship

Drop Your Reins Presents Danielle Herb’s “The Experience”
at Cheer Horse Ranch - July 11, 2009

CHEER recognizes the challenges young people face as they mature in our society. There are demands on their time and focus that we’re not a part of growing up 20 years ago.

CHEER strives to guide the emotional development of our young friends through a healthy interaction with horses. By offering this interaction, CHEER will provide a foundation of life lessons aimed at allowing people to navigate their future with dignity, grace and caring.

CHEER has a mission and a goal to help manage growth and has an eye to create happy children and content horses .

We togther will utilize the unique human-equestrian interaction in a collarborative endeavor to enrich the emotional lives of our friends by:

*Teaching selflessness through caring of others
*Fostering self-confidence through nonjudgemental relationships
*Discovering self-reliance through doing
*Promoting self-esteem through healthy interdepedence
*Instilling pride through accomplishment
*Developing accountability through responsibility
*Encouraging enthusiasm for life through wholesome challenge
*Cultivating patience through understanding

Learn more and contact Danielle Herb at http://www.dropyourreins.com/about/

Don't forget to follow Danielle on Twitter @DanielleHerb and Cheers Horse Ranch @CheersRanch

Sue Scheff: Parent Secrets in Bringing out the best in your ADHD Child

Source: ADDitude Magazine

5 Parent Secrets: Bring Out the Best In Your ADHD Child

How to foster happiness and success in ADHD children who need a little help unwrapping their special gifts.

by Edward Hallowell, M.D.

Every child is born with gifts. A child who has the fascinating trait called attention deficit disorder (ADHD) possesses extraordinary ones, but they may be hidden. And if they’re found, they can be tough to unwrap.

I hear from parents who say they need a plan to help them do that. Well, your wish has been granted. I have a five-step plan, called the cycle of excellence, which will reveal your ADHD child's gifts for all to see.

The plan works best if you love your child in the right way. First, try to catch her spirit and essence. Watch, listen, and interact with her, and don’t direct or worry about getting things done. Just hang out with her. You’ll come to see who your child is.

Before she gets labeled smart or stupid, hardworking or lazy, athletic or klutzy, friendly or taciturn, engaging or standoffish, before she gets labeled ADD or XYZ, a parent usually senses the beginnings of who her child is. Hold on to that!

Second, don’t listen much to the diagnosticians. Out of necessity, diagnosticians oversimplify. We miss the subtleties, the complexities, and the richness that makes up the spirit of a child. It is sad to see how many children lose that essence growing up. You can protect your child’s spirit by noticing it, naming it, and nourishing it.

The cycle of excellence will do the rest. I have used it many times — and have seen it used by other parents. The plan will help your child do more than get by in life. She will thrive and soar beyond where she, her teachers, and even you may have thought she could. Now let’s get started.

Read entire article: http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/5408.html

Sue Scheff: Teen Gang Statistics

Today I Blogged on my main Blog - http://www.suescheffblog.com/ about Teen Gangs. Now that it is summer, parents need to be sure their kids are busy with constructive activities. Idle time can lead to trouble.

Read about Teen Gangs here: http://suescheffblog.com/2009/06/sue-scheff-teen-gangs/

Youth Gang Statistics

Youth gang activity is a significant problem in the United States. The following are statistics related to youth violence and gang activities:

•14 percent of teens are gang members (according to a survey in Denver)
•89 percent of serious violent crimes committed by teens were committed by gang members
•Gang members are 60 percent more likely to be killed
•The average age of a gang member is 17 to 18 years old
•25 percent of gang members are between the age of 15 and 17
•Police reports indicate that 6 percent of gang members are female and that 39 percent of gangs have female members

•Of female gang members:

◦78 percent have been in a gang fight
◦65 percent carry a weapon for protection
◦39 percent have attacked someone with a weapon
•Youth gang activity by area type:
◦72 percent of large cities
◦33 percent of small cities
◦56 percent of suburban counties
◦24 percent of rural counties
◦51 percent overall

•Youth gang activity by region:

◦74 percent in the West
◦52 percent in the Midwest
◦49 percent in the South
◦31 percent in the Northeast
◦51 percent overall

Click here for more.

Sue Scheff: ADHD Family Summit 2009

It’s not too late to sign up for the 2009 ADHD Family Summit. And now is a good time to do it because this Wednesday, June 17, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern (8:00 Central, 7:00 Mountain, and 6:00 Pacific) Edge Foundation Executive Director, Sarah Wright, will be talking about how coaching can help your ADHD teen be successful in school, at home and in life. Did we mention that it’s FREE?

The ADHD Family Summit is organized by Rory Stern, a passionate advocate in the ADHD community. The teleseminars will be held throughout June on Monday and Wednesday evenings at 9:00 pm Eastern, and include access to a 24-hour replay line for people who aren’t able to listen in live.

Learn more: click here.

Sue Scheff: Anxiety Disorder: Symptoms & Treatment

Is ADHD causing your child's anxiety? Or could an anxiety disorder be to blame? Symptom and treatment information.

Free ADHD handout from ADDitude Magazine

Moderate anxiety - when taking a test or performing in a school play - is normal and healthy. But if your child's anxiety is more severe and commonplace, you may fear that an anxiety disorder is to blame. ADDitude has made it easier to understand anxiety with this quick comparison sheet that will help you understand the symptoms and treatment of anxiety disorder vs. ADHD. Contents include...

Common symptoms of anxiety disorder in children
An explanation of primary vs. secondary anxiety in children with ADHD
Effective treatment options for children with primary or secondary anxiety

Get your Free Download Here: http://www.additudemag.com/RCLP/sub/5435.html

Sue Scheff: Power Moms Unite

WHAT IS A POWER MOM?

Power Moms are moms working to successfully balance the needs of child, family, and self. Some work outside the home, balancing a career with the needs of their child, family and personal self. Other moms are working from home, managing families while managing a small home-based business or managing large families and a homeschool. There are a wide range of us- all power moms- looking to do our best at our many hats as mom- be that nuturer, coach, educator, cheerleader, psychologist, disciplinarian, party arranger, role-model, etc. The roles are vast and numerous, the balance often difficult to strike. This site hopes to empower these moms by providing timely, valuable and informative resources for celebrating family life and successfully managing ADHD.

Visit http://www.powermomsunite.com/ for more great articles, parenting tips, ideas and much more!

Sue Scheff: Learn more about ADD/ADHD

How to Plan the Perfect Summer

Strategies for finding the right summer camp for your child with attention deficit disorder (ADHD).

This article and more can be found in the ADDitude Magazine - sign up today. Visit their website at www.additudemag.com and you will be amazed at the all the information and articles about kids with ADD/ADHD and adults.

Sue Scheff - The Feingold Program and Diet - Holiday Goodie Basket

For parents of ADD/ADHD children, many have had tremendous success with the Feingold Program and Diet to help manage their kids. As the holidays are here, they are offering a fabulous goodie basket for your friends and family!

Learn more at www.feingold.org

Holiday Goodie Basket!

Support your Feingold Association and wow your friends!

A great assortment of all-natural, delicious treats in an attractive holiday gift baskets for you to enjoy or to give as gifts. For your $50 donation to FAUS, we will send a basket to the person of your choice.

We have gathered our favorite Stage One & Stage Two yummies from sources around the country and will be assembling attractive gift baskets to be shipped out via Priority Mail to the locations and at the time you choose. Look for brownies, cookies, jelly beans, gummy bears, lollipops, and many other goodies and snacks.

Wouldn't it be great if your relatives had lots of Feingold-acceptable treats on hand when you and your kids visit them? This is a wonderful way to introduce family, friends, neighbors and teachers to the Program, and to show them that "additive-free" means "delicious"!! Get several baskets for your friends, relatives, teachers, etc.

ADDitude Magazine - Valuable Information on ADD/ADHD

Do you have an ADD or ADHD child? Are you an ADHD Adult?

Visit http://www.additudemag.com/ and learn more! ADDitude Magazine offers a wide variety of topics on ADD and ADHD for both children and adults. Check out their informational and educational Blogs!

Stop Interrupting! Better ADHD School Behavior

(Parents Universal Resource Experts - Sue Scheff)- ADDitude Magazine offers great articles on ADHD. How teachers and parents can inspire better ADHD school behavior with help from these impulse-controlling exercises for children with attention-deficit.

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ADHD and Iron: Can Nutrition Improve ADHD Symptons?

How to improve your child's ADHD symptoms by increasing the iron levels in his diet.

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Smile — ADHD Awareness Month!

What is attention deficit? And why is it so misunderstood? You can help set the record straight with this information and these tips for ADHD Awareness Week.

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What Is ADHD? An ADHD Doctor Talks About the Symptoms and Treatment Info

An expert on ADHD and learning disabilities talks about the biology behind attention deficit disorder and why it's sometimes so difficult to diagnose and treat ADHD symptoms in children.

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Treating ADHD with Behavior Therapy: An Alternative ADHD Tre

Alternatives to ADHD medications are of great interest to parents of ADHD children seeking treatment without side effects...

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ADHD Over-Diagnosed?

Are kids being diagnosed with ADD/ADHD more often?

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Michael Phelps Mom on Parenting an ADHD Superstar | ADDitude

Meet the mothers of three ADHD super-achievers — an Olympic record-breaker, a TV heavyweight, and a world-class adventurer — and learn how they helped their kids beat the odds.

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How a Student with ADHD Beat the School Bully: Blake Taylor'

Does your child with ADHD face torment and teasing at school? Learn how this successful young author and his mom beat the class bully!

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9 Ways to Achieve Success at School

As a parent of an ADHD child, learning new ways to help our kids in school is important. ADDitude Magazines offers a lot of great articles and free reports.

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Why is This Child So Distressed?

Parents Universal Resource Experts (Sue Scheff) - Jane Hersey, author of Why My Child Can't Behave, writes this informational article to help parents with ADD/ADHD children and offers alternatives to medications.

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Finding Joshua

As a parent advocate (Sue Scheff) this story about Joshua, a young boy at one time and his struggles with ADHD and ODD (oppositional defiance disorder) - can give parents alternatives to medications through diet.

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