I’m Bored! What’s Next?

By Eric Unruh

Important: This book is intended to be an affordable, quick read for parents, teachers, relatives or others interested in understanding what childhood ADHD is all about. This book purposefully does not go into parenting strategies. PLEASE NOTE: If you would like the same information found in this book AND parenting strategies for childhood ADHD, please consider our newly released book "ADHD! What's Next? Parenting Strategies for Home and School." If you don't need the parenting strategies part and you simply want to learn or educate others on childhood ADHD, then this is the right book for you!

Many books simply repeat or paraphrase ADHD from the diagnostic manual. This book describes how ADHD looks in day to day life, making ADHD much more understandable. Reviews state:

- "This book is s quick read, right to the point, and paints a CLEAR picture of one with ADHD." - Reviewer Alejandra J, Amazon.com

- "What a great resource this book is. The stated goal is to help the reader get inside the mind of a child with ADHD, and it accomplishes this and more. Better yet, the expert authors hit the most important points in a condensed format, making it highly useful and highly accessible. It has definitely helped me to better understand ADHD. Highly recommended!" - Reviewer Michael Lewis, Amazon.com

"I’m Bored! What’s Next?" helps us see there is much more to childhood ADHD than simply inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Authors Eric Unruh and Gary Unruh know all about ADHD, as they are both diagnosed with it and together have spent 60-plus years helping kids and parents understand and accept ADHD. Deliberately written to be a short read, they describe ADHD through the riveting minute-by-minute, inside life of an ADHD boy named Chad and his mother, followed by 19 core descriptors of what ADHD really is – concepts like:

* ADHD kids are unable to be bored.
* ADHD kids are too attentive, not "attention deficit."
* ADHD kids have problems visualizing how long tasks will take.
* ADHD kids get frustrated when told to shift from a stimulating activity to a less stimulating activity.

Read this book in under 1 hour and have all the knowledge you need to better understand childhood ADHD.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eric Unruh
• Release date: Dec 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310574634

Book preview

I’m Bored!

What’s Next?

Understanding Childhood ADHD

Eric Unruh, MSW, LCSW

Gary Unruh, MSW, LCSW

Lighthouse Love Productions, LLC

Colorado Springs, CO

© 2015 Eric Unruh, Gary Unruh.

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Table of Contents

Preface

A Day in the Life…

Nothing Is Wrong with an ADHD Person

Nonacceptance of ADHD

The Emotional Toll of ADHD

ADHD by the Numbers

The Classic Definition Is Misleading

What is ADHD, Really?

Conclusion

About the Authors

Preface

Authors Gary and Eric Unruh are not only professionals with over 60 years combined experience counseling children with ADHD and their families, but they have lived it, being diagnosed with ADHD themselves. Their personal and professional life experience has revealed two resounding conclusions: There is nothing wrong with an ADHD child, and inattention and hyperactivity don’t truly describe an ADHD child.

Every child is different, of course, but they all have one thing in common: they yearn to