Your Child Is Not Alone Here

My child has ADHD, cry, cry, cry. Whine. Whine Whine. I am trying to pay attention, but this parent’s child has every ailment. She wants a 504, and IEP, and any extra intervention, as there is always something. She is in my office more than all the other parents put together, and I have hundreds of parents. An incessantly annoying tick of a loud clock demands my full attention. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Man, is that thing loud! I’m sorry. Can you please repeat this? I ask her. She has not stopped talking, so I try to catch up. He has ADHD, a broken foot, a sore finger, and he lost his hardhat yesterday. Your child? No. My husband. I try much harder to listen this time. But then a fly lands on my desk. Man is that thing loud!