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Willie raising and loving a child with attention deficit disorder colin ann on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers willie raising and loving a child with attention deficit disorder. The story of willie is the story of an intelligent creative healthy child who as his mother says is wired a little differently from other people nearly ten percent of school aged children are diagnosed with add attention deficit disorder and the condition has vaulted into the public awareness. Willie raising and loving a child with attention deficit disorder the task is difficult for any layperson and even more problematic for the parent of a child with a psychiatric disorder writing such a book is often complicated by a parents natural confusion and emotions surrounding the nature of a childs mental illness or emotional . Add attention deficit disorder now diagnosed in up to ten percent of school age children has vaulted into public awareness and into a succession of self help books but this is the first to take the reader through a mothers eyes into the day to day life of a child with add and its dynamics in the home and beyond. This honest moving heartwrenching and joyful account of willies first five years details a dizzying parade of doctors schools treatments and therapies and the inevitable emotional seesaw that ensuedfor the first time a mother speaks out about the day to day realities of life with a child with attention deficit disorder