From one parent with ADHD to all the others… 14 hilarious signs that you are easily distracted.
You might be an ADHD Parent if:
- You have had to retrieve your child’s spelling folder from the post office because you dropped it in the mail box and stuffed the house payment in his backpack.
- You have had to call out of work sick because you couldn’t drop your kid off at daycare without matching shoes, and you can only find one shoe of any pair. (Bonus points if you discovered one or more of the missing shoes in the car right after you bought a new pair of shoes.)
- You have answered the question, “Mom do you know where my ____ is?” with archeological coordinates: “About two feet in and three feet down in that pile.”
- You have had a neighbor call the police because your front door had been standing open all day. And no, you weren’t burglarized. You just meant to back in and retrieve something really important but forgot.
- Your child has lost one or more letter grades because she brought back papers that she had shown you, but that you forgot to sign. (Bonus points if in a moment of impulsiveness you did sign but wrote Mrs. Minnie Mouse)
- You ground your child but forget that the child is grounded when s/he asks for permission to go do something. (Bonus points if you have ever re-grounded the same child for the same time frame for three or more offenses.)
- You have ever had a child languish in time-out for an obscene amount of time because you forgot that you had put the kid in time-out.
- You have diapered your baby using a wad of paper towels and scotch tape because while you remembered to pack a changing pad, baby wipes, butt balm and even the cute containers of baby powder you got in a gift basket, you have no diaper, not even in the emergency stash in the car or even in the double emergency stash in the trunk.
- You run out of paper plates, and clean plates, so you use the lid of plastic take out containers. (Bonus points if you defiantly keep using them even after you have restored a sense of order.)
- You interrupt your kid while he is doing homework to tell him a funny joke that you just remembered.
- You have reported your child missing, only to have the school call and ask why you didn’t show for the late pick-up after a field trip.
- You totally lose your train of thought in the middle of scolding your child and the two of you end up laughing together about how you almost got arrested in cemetery when you were a teenager.
- The pile of clean laundry and the sofa have merged to form one giant soft spot on which your children lounge. (Bonus points if you forgot to have them take off their shoes, so you have gone to work with a kid’s shoe print on the back of your shirt.)
- You have told your child to brush her hair and comb her teeth ..more than three times.. and you were not joking.
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