by Joshua D. Wyner | Jun 7, 2013 | Parenting, Psychology
You’ve decided to give your child an allowance, but can’t decide how much to give them. You head over to your new online parenting specialist, Google, and find the following suggestions: $0.50 per Year of Age $1.00 per Year of Age $100 for the Year, Up...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Jun 1, 2013 | ADHD, Psychology
Keeping ourselves organized and productive is hard. What’s worse is, the more grand our ideas, the harder they can be to work on. We often have a clear picture of what we’d like our project (or life) to look like, but feel so far away from our goal that we...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Sep 27, 2012 | Op-Ed, Psychology
Obama is a do-nothing president. Romney is a flip-flopper. Obama is a socialist. Romney is a fascist. Every four years we seem to ask “Is this the most negative campaign ever?” We can hardly remember a time that was more negative than this one, with...
by Joshua D. Wyner | May 17, 2012 | ADHD, Psychology
ADHD is completely misunderstood, and not simply by the public. Just look at the name itself: “Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder.” Coined by “professionals,” the name lists two symptoms that aren’t even necessary in order to...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Feb 8, 2012 | ADHD, Psychology
I recently came across a blog entry by a well-meaning psychiatrist who wanted to stress how important it is to not diagnose nonconformity as a disorder (the original blog entry is linked below). Certainly I cannot argue with that point! However, the example she used...
by Joshua D. Wyner | Jan 24, 2012 | ADHD, Psychology
Barkley describes more concisely than most how vital it is for us to move away from the current “pop psychology” description of ADHD. Indeed, the very name “ADD”, coined in the early 80s, has caused a profound level of professional confusion by...
