Willie: Raising and Loving a Child with Attention Deficit Disorder - Softcover

Colin, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140249087 ISBN 13: 9780140249088

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1998

Synopsis

One mother shares her journal written during the first five years of her ADD-affected son's life

About this title

Review:

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric illness among children. An estimated 10 percent of school-age boys are currently on Ritalin. At age four, Ann Colin's son Willie was charming, bright, belligerent ... and kicked out of preschool. Willie, written in the form of a journal, is an interesting and often moving story about parenting an ADD child--diagnosis problems, psychiatrists, drug trials. Colin, writing from the perspective of a middle-class Manhattanite who wants Willie to achieve, moves from fear and uncertainty to finding the care and school situation that is right for him. She asks, "What is normal and by whose definition?"

About the Author:

Ann Colin is a former features editor of McCall's magazine. Her articles have appeared in Marie Claire, Elle, New York magazine, and Seventeen. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140249087
• ISBN 13: 9780140249088
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272