I am going to have fun with this Top Ten post. 
You know your child has ADHD when….
1) Your pre-teen gets her first few sips of coffee and takes the first nap since she was 7 months old!
2) You awake with the sun every single day… since you were pregnant!
3) You’re child can hyper focus on a single project for hours and hours and still not complete it.
4) You have to look under the couch, behind the bed, laundry pile, everywhere but the table for their CURRENT school work.
5) Your child tells you they ‘fell off the thought train.’
6) Your child can put 1st shoe on and totally forget the 2nd shoe.
7) Your child is a moving wave a sound, energy, and an explosion of chaos.
8 ) You and your hubby have to learn tag-team parenting just so you can keep up with your child.
9) Things happen fast around your child. The thought process goes like this. Hmm I wonder… BAM! Oops.
I have to jump in here and tell a funny story from our early days of homeschooling. We had 3 kids at the time and had just moved into a new home. Hubby and I were in the process of repainting and settling into the house.
For homeschool we talked about gravity and did the classic book vs feather gravity experiment. As the day progressed the sound of various items hitting the floor kept going. My oldest loved the experiment became hyper focused on it.
While I was putting down our littlest one I heard the dreaded sound of silence.
Mommy radar up and running I came to see what was going on. I found a front door with little hand prints of blue. Then I noticed the footprints of blue down the stairs to the bathroom where I found my two oldest scrubbing off the blue paint.
The story I was able to piece together was my ADHD oldest decided that the experiment needed go to GRAND scale. There was blue paint in a convenient handled bucket and a soft pillow. The railing, the AC, spots on the front of the house, the two children, and of course the path from the front door to the bathroom we varying levels of blue.
10) You and your child learn to see what a delight ADHD can bring rather then focusing on the more difficult parts.
Here are a few sites to get some good info and encouragement.
Feel free to add the list!
* You threaten to burn a book–not because of it’s content, but because your child is hyperfocused on reading to the exclusion of all else… including walking.
* You surrender to doing certain things yourself because you’re the only one cognizant enough to be angry when you get to the 42nd time of telling your ADHD child to do it.
* Every food encounter outside of the home is a calculated risk vs. benefit analysis (backlash vs. joy)
* The most commonly overheard statement in your presence is “That one sure has a lot of energy!”
* You have lived so long with your ADHD child that even you forget about there being an “Excuse me” pre-interruption. :/
* You cherish the friends that see the beauty and brilliance in your child instead of the spilled drink or ripped book page.
Great additions. I especially enjoyed the food one. We are gluten free, casein free, soy free… the food outside my kitchen is always a problem!