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In My Own Words

I am the mother of 4 boys. Three have ADHD. Two of the three are gifted (twins). My pet peeve is to tell the truth. I tell my boys if Iam asking a direct question and it is very specific they can be sure I already know the answer. What I am looking for from them is to tell the truth. One of the hardest things for them to do is to say what is wrong becasue they know that I will expect improvement and change. Once they have told me what I know is the truth they know I am going to want them to come up with a plan on how not to do it again. One of my favorite memories was whar my husband had taken the boys to a logging camp and they saw a moose. He asked the twins to tell me waht they had saw. they were 3 and had speak problems at the time. They had been using sign language for some of thier communication. Both of them became very excited and they began waving thier arms while facing each other. Finally one grab the other arms, shook his head and signed he would tell me. He had both hands on either side of his face and he moved his hands down to shoe a long face. He then had his hands on either side of his head (to show antlers) and her extended his arms up and out. Then he drew his hands down both arms and legs quickly standing on his toes and waving his hand to deliniate hieght as very tall. I said OOHH you saw a very tall moose and my husband could not figure out how I knew what they told me by waving thier arms around. They both jumped up and down when and were extremely happy that I knew what they had told me. No-one had shown them the sign for an animal with antlers. They figured it out together and it was beautiful to see.

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