Wild Child - Gail Miller

I can very much identify with this book "Wild Child - A Mother, A Son & ADHD", by Gail Miller (ISBN number 1 872229 24 7). After all, the author is my wife and I too, like her, have lived through the hell of bringing up a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The book basically chronicles the a period of 12 years and tells of how Gail consulted with many many psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians not to mention educational professionals over the years, only to have her son 'slip through the net' year in, year out. After being told on numerous occasions that our son would 'grow out of it' that it was ...  Read the complete review

Wild Child by Gail Miller is the true story of Joey, and his mother’s fight to get him diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Gail kept a diary during the nine years that it took to get a diagnosis, and this is the very moving, sometimes funny story of those long hard years. Anyone who has a child with ADHD will empathise with Gail and her family, and those readers who haven’t yet come across the disorder will be left in no uncertain terms of the awful struggle parents of these children go through every day. Gail and other mothers like her should be given a medal. ...  Read the complete review