Posted by SuperADDMom on May 19, 2010
This study below… is the BIGGEST piece of bullshit I have seen in recent days for cause of ADHD.
The numbers are whack. “detectable levels” says NOTHING.. and 10 percent of the population has ADHD dx or ADHD like symptoms ANYWAY.. regardless of what reason scientists try to pull out of their ass.
But ya know….better be safe than sorry.. so go TOTALLY Organic, and put your kids in a complete sterile, non plastic, organic, cotton bubble for frack sake! wouldn’t want them to get the ADHD!
STOP blaming my mother ( and every mother for that matter) for lead,pesticides,feeding me fecking hot dogs, and NOT breastfeeding me when I was a kid.
Stop blaming TV, and video games, and lack of exercise, and lack of dicepline, and not enough GOD, or too much candy, or that I once sniffed the cork of the rubber cement jar during art class, on a Friday, in May in grade 2 because it was a neat smell to me.
I AM ADHD. DEAL WITH IT
Ya wanna know the cause for ADHD? Here’s the cause.-U R BORN WITH IT. Sure envrio can make it worse/better, but u are BORN WITH IT.
Statistics can be twisted to SAY ANYTHING.
if 20 people drink alcohol, and 10 percent of them get in a fist fight when they drink, does that mean alcohol causes agression, or that 10 percent of them were assholes to start with, and the alcohol lowered their filters to know when to shut up, and they didn’t and got punched in the face for saying something derogatory about the punchers girlfriends?
Can we conclude that Alcohol MAKES assholes? No it proves that assholes can’t be social when they drink. the other 80 percent drank the alcohol, and had a great time….see.
Numbers are bullshit when twisted like that. If it ain’t 2+2=4 and has DATA…HARD proof, to back it up…it’s bullshit.
But of course, they’ll need to do MORE STUDIES.. and waste YEARS of government funding….because they never get enough info to make any conclusive finding.
They never find HARD CORE EVIDENCE FOR CAUSE AND EFFECT. They want to keep their jobs, so they apply for funding for yet another 4or 5 or 6 year study to come up with THIS kind if BS?
Pesticides may contribute to ADHD in kids
Source:http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100517/pesticides-adhd-100517/20100517/?hub=Health
ADHD is one of the most common childhood disorders – but new research says the foods we eat may be to blame.
CTV.ca News Staff
Date: Mon. May. 17 2010 10:30 PM ET
New research suggests that exposure to high levels of the kind of pesticides commonly found on berries and other produce, could raise the odds that children will develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The study doesn’t prove that pesticide exposure can actually cause ADHD. But the study’s lead author Maryse Bouchard, an adjunct researcher in the department of environmental and occupational health at the University of Montreal and at Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre thinks it’s safe to say that children should reduce their exposure to pesticides as much as possible.
“The results of this study support the hypothesis that exposure to organophosphate pesticides could play a role in the development of ADHD,” said Bouchard.
“But further studies are needed,” she said, because the study “is the first one to show this possible link.”
Bouchard and her colleagues analyzed data on organophosphate pesticide exposure and ADHD in more than 1,100 American children aged eight to 15. All of the children were part of the U.S. government-funded National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between 2000 and 2004.
They found detectable levels of the pesticides in the urine of almost all — 94 per cent — of the children. The study didn’t determine how the children were exposed; it may have been from food, drinking water, or from the air.
As reported by their parents, 119 children in the study had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or showed the severe inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity symptoms of the disorder. Another 29 did not meet diagnostic criteria, but were taking ADHD medications regularly in the previous year.
The conclusions, published in the journal Pediatrics, state that children with higher pesticide levels in their urine were more likely to have ADHD.
In particular, those with higher levels of one pesticide called dimethyl alkylphosphate (DMAP) were more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.
For the most frequent compound detected, 20 per cent of the children with above-average levels had ADHD. In children with no detectable amount in their urine, 10 per cent had ADHD.
According to the authors, high doses of organophosphates may inhibit acetylcholinesterase, a nervous system enzyme. Even lower doses of the pesticide might affect different growth factors and neurotransmitters.
The researchers say they couldn’t prove that pesticides caused ADHD. In fact, they suggested it’s possible it might even be the other way round: that that the behavior of ADHD children increased their exposure to pesticides.
“Future studies should use a prospective design, with multiple urine samples collected over time, for better assessment of chronic exposure and critical windows of exposure, and should establish appropriate temporality,” the researchers wrote.
However, Dr. Philip Landrigan, director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, noted that the study’s main conclusion fits with previous research.
“It’s consistent with other studies that have looked at organophosphate pesticides and have found that exposure early in life can cause brain injury,” he said.
It’s not clear how pesticides might affect children, but it’s known that organophosphates interfere with the metabolism of acetylcholine, a key brain chemical in cognition.
Organophosphates were originally developed as nerve gases for warfare. Because they are neurotoxic, they are effective at killing pests, but worries have long remained about how they affect humans, especially the developing brains of small children.
The researchers noted that the study method was not ideal, since only one urine sample per child was used. Still, they called for further research into the link they found.
With a report by CTV’s Genevieve Beauchemin in Montreal
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 18, 2010
- 4 yo me saw my third term of SK marked as “behind her peers” and would be held back in SK if I didn’t show significant improvement
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4 year old me did not get along well with the other girls, i didn’t understand “playground soial rules” and the teacher was concerned for me
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4 year old me, was clumsy, and accident prone, and was no longer allowed un covered cups at snacktime…i remember the yelling
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4 yo me, had hearing tests because I appeared to have a hearing deficit, but my physical hearing tests came back fine
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4 yo me had to take speech therapy bcause I could not talk well…speech therapy taught me how to read lips, little did they know..
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4 yo me could not count to 15, i would count, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12, 11,13,14,15 EVERYTIME, and was scolded for it ( i remember well)
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4 yo old me, refused to play building blocks with a partner, and wanted to be alone and would have temper tantrums if forced to play blocks
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4 yo me, could not sit still for reading circle, interrupted with questions, being “picky” on the teacher paraphrasing the storys she knew..
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4 yo me…hated chalk and paint on my hands, refused to do those activities. liked to play house with dolls, in the dress up area alone..
so, ya.. looking at this report card.. the signs are SO CLEAR…but not in a public school classroom in 1978
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 13, 2010
The Mundane One and I over Lunch.
me: you should have seen the boy on the balance beam this morning, he was really going..so fast, he was flying like a bat in the wind
hubby: bat in the wind?
( I always get those “old sayings”/metaphors/assimilies wrong since I grew up with a deaf father, who heard them wrong all his life and passed them onto me, so i knew I said it wrong by his question)
me: ya, you know. like really fast.. I guess that one is wrong too right?
hubby: uh YA.. you’ve been saying that for months now, and I keep trying to ask you what the hell…
me: ya. i dunno. i got that one from my dad I guess…. bat out of hell then right?
hubby: ya I guess that would work
me: whatever, he was going really jam fast!
hubby: jam? what is THAT?
me: giggle.. ya. I dunno, just came out, meant to say damn.. but…
hubby: jam tho?
me: YA… I’m trying to curse less for fuck’s sake ok? so, I said JAM instead of DAMN
hubby: (laughing) so.. ok.. how’s that working for ya so far?
me: really fuckin’ great! 
hubby: ( shakes head and laughs at me in the knowing.. you’re hopeless, but I love ya anyway look)
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 12, 2010
I live on the outskirts of a small town. I used to live in the small town, and for the last 5 years attended mommy play groups with other parents. So, when I go to town, I see some people I “know” on a hello basis.
Tonight when taking the girl to her swim class in town at the rec centre, I knew I had to go and pick up milk at the store my kids call “Big Tig” ( the store has a huge tiger painted on the side)
A few weeks ago we ran into the coordinator of a mommy and me evening program called Busy feet, and we had not gone since we moved from town.
Since the programs on Wednesdays overlap by an hour, she invited us to bring the boy while the girl is at her class, and tonight he mentioned to me that he wanted to go to busy feet.
He mentioned this as we were getting back in the van from dropping off the girl, and I happily agreed that we’d stop by to see after I picked up some milk.
And the very second I agreed to go check it out, and see people we have not seen in a while, I got in the van and flipped down the sun visor and noticed something that made me want to get out of going anywhere in public.
big black chin hairs! OHHHHHH crap! As a 35 year old ADD woman, with changing hormones, I no longer worry about pimples, but I’ve started growing stray dark black chairs out of my chin….this would not be so bad, but I forget to do a good check and pluck them out, and then I notice them at really awkward times, like when I’m in town, without tweezers, and needing to go somewhere in public.
I frantically searched my backpack for a pair of tweezers. I own several pair.. and I had THOUGHT i left a pair in my back pack for just this kind of situation…but a 5 minute search resulted in nothing, and found me bargaining with my 5 year old to find a reason to NOT go to busy feet, where I’d have to talk to people, and be totally aware in my own head of the black chin hairs. I rationalized that I’m sure no one will notice, but that it didn’t matter. I’d notice, and that was enough to make me nervous and anxious. I have social anxiety enough as it is with my communication issues due to hearing processing, and also reading people’s body language, so I didn’t need this kind of extra anxiety.
So, I drove to run an errand for The Mundane One, and got stuck in traffic, then went to big tig for milk, and decided to see if they had some cheap tweezers.
Cleaning the car last week while waiting for a dr appointment I’d found a $1 coin ( called a looney in Canada) and thought perhaps it wold save me.
IT DID. they had a pair of tweezers for a dollar!!!! so I bought them, and plucked them suckers out of my chin in the parking lot, and then went off to the play group with my boy for the last 40 minutes of it. And in all of that, I almost forgot to buy the milk!
(me in total “no makeup, hair in ponytail, not brushed today, stained sweater going to town mode”)
Being a sexy SuperADDmom is no simple task!
And I’m gonna yell at the Mundane One for letting me out the door like that!
I’m keeping the tweezers I bought today in the van from now on, for just this kind of situation!
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 6, 2010
So yeah.. I’m watching Big Bang Theory with the hubby the other night and sheldon talks about spaghetti with hotdogs in it, and I think “OMFG no, people don’t really do that do they!?”
But given I know people who think a real nice spaghetti dinner is pasta boiled and thrown into a can of Tomato soup! GAG
So I did what any normal sane person would do, I googled it.
And when i searched the pictures results…which is how I decide what result page I go to first for every search I’m doing-this little concoction for kids came up when I looked for Spaghetti with cut up hot dogs.
So I decided to call them spider dogs with just 4 pieces of noodle. I made them for a surprise for the kids for lunch yesterday, and then tonight when we got home from the girls swim glass, and needed supper fast, they again asked for spider dogs.
Easiest Cool mom points EVAR.
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I let the kids write on the front of the dishwasher with white board dry erase markers.
This is the most recent note my 9 yo daughter left me 
( i played with it in irfanview, because the actual picture was rather dark)
Apparently she doesn’t love me on friday and saturdays.. when I asked her about that joking aroung, she said that of course she did, but I already knew that, cause Fridays is Family fun night, and Saturdays I let her play with her friends
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 5, 2010
(click the picture to enlarge it so you can read the easel)
On the side of our house that people see most when walking past on the small piece ( and only sidewalk) in our little hamlet, there is a “flower bed” that was there when we moved in. it had nothing but dirt and some crappy low weedy plants in it. It was more of a dumping ground.
The Girl cub claimed it as her flower bed, and this year she sprinkled wild flower mix in there, a few misc bulbs from other places in the yard we removed them from.
Late last fall I tore up a peonie bush that was poorly placed on the other side of the house under the bathroom window and just tossed it in there…it was cold, and I said. “well I guess it’ll take or it won’t, let just see.”
Well it rooted, and it’s growing and soon there will be peonies there. which she is delighted by.
I’ve noticed that the walls don’t contain the lily of the valley she transplanted in it, and the clover grass is growing through the holes in the walls of the wood. To keep the wood edging clear, when I walk by I pick out the grass growth. But I smile when I walk by that side to cut the grass, because it was nothing before, and it’s growing into a little while and crazy, beautiful bed of flowers that she loves and waters diligently ( too much).
So the saying on the sign just came to me this afternoon, so I grabbed some chalk and wrote it down on her easle and stuck it in her garden.
For those of you who don’t know I started a “blackboard blessings” last year in my front window, to thank a neighbour for the mystery gift that was left at my door, and now I make new signs on a rotating semi regular basis of quotes or what I’m thinking, or what I feel blessed by.
So this is the sign out side in that flower bed. I’m going to make a “permanent blackboard” for that flower bed with the sign, because since it spilled rain while I was out this evening , the writing it gone now of the easel
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 3, 2010
Uggg. I can’t find the arm pit spray! Because I have to attend the gym and swim program with the boy, I put my personal hygeine products in a travel bag to take back and forth with me, and now I’ve lost my underarm deoderant! I have b ack ups, but I didn’t want to smell like Vanilla today, I wanted to smell like Cucumbers.
Make sure you buy double,”travel” items, and leave your home stuff home.
also, when you are trying to establish a new “home” for things so you never lose them…maybe write down on a card for the fridge where you made the new home cause last night I searched for my day planner for an hour.
I finally remembered I had put in in my nap sack in one of my “i’m gonna get all organized moments”, and promptly forgot it was there. Where I intended it to always be, but have not put it there in over a year.
IT took me over 3 years to establish a “hang your keys up right away when you walk in the door” routine.. and some days I still don’t because i have to run in fast to pee…and on top of that, the kids like to steal my keys to open the workshop, or turn on the radio in the van when they are waiting for me.
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 2, 2010
The boy insisted on pulling the heavy 20 kg bag of sand to the box hmself.. he did a great job! heavy sensory therapy work DIY style.
He’s been in the sand box ever since. The sand has always been one of his most favourite things to do. I can currently hear him humming to himself under the cherry tree playing with cars in the sand.
Posted by SuperADDMom on May 1, 2010
Eleven formulations of over-the-counter children’s cold and allergy medicine are being recalled in Canada as part of a larger worldwide recall for failing to meet quality standards.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare said Saturday that all lots of Children’s Motrin and Infant’s Motrin liquid suspension products and Children’s Tylenol Cough & Runny Nose liquid suspension products are being recalled.
No other Canadian product is affected, the company said in a release.
The company said the recall was issued, in consultation with Health Canada, because “these products may not fully meet the required manufacturing specifications.”
The company said the recalled products do not pose a safety risk to children who have consumed them.
In the United States, more than 40 over-the-counter kids medications under the brand names Tylenol, Tylenol Plus, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl are being recalled by the company, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical and health care giant Johnson & Johnson.
The affected products in Canada are:
• Infant’s Motrin Suspension Drops Dye-Free, 30 ml (DIN 02238626)
• Infant’s Motrin Suspension Drops Dye-Free, 15 ml (DIN 02238626)
• Children’s Motrin Suspension Dye-Free, 120 ml (DIN 02242365)
• Children’s Motrin Suspension, 120 ml (DIN 02242365)
• Children’s Motrin Suspension Grape, 120 ml (DIN 02242365)
• Children’s Motrin Suspension Grape, 30 ml (DIN 02242365)
• Children’s Motrin Suspension Bubblegum, 120 ml (DIN 02242365)
• Children’s Motrin Suspension Tropical Punch, 120 ml (DIN 02242365)
• Infant’s Motrin Suspension for Fever due to Colds/Flu, 30 ml (DIN 02238626)
• Children’s Motrin Suspension for Fever due to Colds/Flu, 120 ml (DIN 02242365)
• Children’s Tylenol Cough & Runny Nose Suspension, 100 ml (DIN 02292122)
Company spokeswoman Tina Peyregatt says no illnesses have been reported so far, and stresses no other infant’s or children’s Tylenol products are affected, nor are any medicines in tablet form.
“We want to make sure Canadians aren’t concerned or panicking” about products that aren’t on the recall list, she said, adding she doesn’t expect the list to grow.
Asked whether children who may have consumed the product are in any danger, Peyregatt said no.
“There’s no safety concern,” she said. “This is a precautionary measure.”
The issue is that some products may not meet manufacturing specifications, she said, noting the recall is voluntary.
While some items in the U.S. recall reportedly contain higher concentrations of an active ingredient than specified, Peyregatt said that is not the case in Canada.
Customers are nonetheless urged to stop using the recalled products and contact the company at 1-888-222-6036 or visit www.jnjcanada.com for more information.
“The company is conducting a comprehensive quality assessment across its manufacturing operations and has identified corrective actions that will be implemented before new manufacturing is initiated at the U.S. plant where the recalled products were made,” the company said.
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