While thinking about how much my ADD impacts my children, I may have inadvertently caused the lateness of our day this morning.  It’s sort of funny how I was just talking about waking up late and yelling and rushing my kids to get them off to school, and this morning was an exact replica of that thought. 

For whatever reason, I couldn’t sleep last night.  I sometimes find that the Ritilan keeps me up late, as it does with the kids.  They both have scripts to help them get to sleep at night.  I have thought about sleeping pills, but I figure I will wait until it really becomes a problem.  If it does…  Maybe I can utilize the law of attraction to help myself sleep better.  If it worked in making us all late this morning, why wouldn’t it work in helping us sleep better. 

I remember watching the Secret and thinking that I definitely believe that it works.  I remember talking to a friend about how I had many years ago started a notebook of the things I wanted to have in my life.  I remember cutting out pictures of the things I wanted and glueing them to the pages of the notebook.  It is amazing when I see that notebook and the pictures in it today.  The items I wanted are all things that I have or have had. 

Not just material items either, marriage, kids, pets, etc…  Of course my little red jeep!  (I so love my jeep!!)  I can’t believe how I had this notebook 15 years earlier and the things in it have all come true.  That is truly the law of attraction in action.  I am a true believer because I have witnessed it work first hand. 

Since I was reminded when watching the secret about the law of attraction, I have worked with my children on visualization and keeping their thoughts positive and well meaning.  It is pretty difficult when working with ADD/ADHD children to help them control the impulsiveness of their thoughts.  My daughter is mostly good at correcting her thoughts when they get negative, but my son is another story!

He is constantly talking about hitting someone if they try to hurt him.  As a mother, I am just not sure what to do with that.  My natural instinct is to tell him that hitting is never an answer, but then I am met with his father’s voice of he is a BOY, and you need to let him be a boy! 

I guess I do need to let him be a boy, but I still believe that violence isn’t the answer.  I tell him that, but it is funny to hear him consistently come back with situations that may just constitute his need to hit someone.  When he says that someone is beating up his sister, then can he hit them, I have to say YEAH, and hit him once for me!!!!!  That is so not Zen, but how could I let him think that he should do nothing?   I just hope that he is never in the situation, but then again, boys will be boys. 

My daughter asked if she could get into karate, so I figure that I will get them both into it and then they will be better informed about physical violence.  I would rather see them have the ability to defend themselves than allow themselves to be bullied.  I suspect that if my son is feeling the need to protect his sister and himself than it is for a reason, so it’s better to have them learn the correct way to go about it. 

A part of me wants to make up another notebook and find pictures of things that I want for the future.  I also want to do the same with my kids.  I think it would be interesting to test the theory out again.  After all, it is kind of freaky to have done something 15 years ago, forgotten about it, and then find that everything came out as it was documented.  Who would have thought that would happen?   Hmmm, probably anyone involved with the law of attraction. 

 Namaste!