The Boy with the Butterfly Mind: A Novel

Description

Title: The Boy with the Butterfly Mind: A Novel
Author: Lorelei Brush
Publisher: She Writes Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback, Kindle eBook
ISBN-13: 9798896363644
Audience: Parents of children with ADHD, adults with ADHD

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Bonnie Garmus, an illuminating novel about a mother struggling to raise a healthy neurodivergent child with a husband worn down by depression.

When Julie Crawford's whirlwind four-year-old is kicked out of preschool, suspected of having ADHD-likely genetic-her husband moans from his recliner that "even my genes are failures." At work, Julie is a high school math teacher who requires her students to solve complex problems. But faced with an unsafe daycare home and no other daycare openings, a husband who hates the idea of labeling their son as a "problem," and a supervisor who's angry at the amount of time she's taking off school, she's at a loss for how to come up with a solution to this particular dilemma.

Julie's struggle to help her son ultimately demands a number of  mindset shifts: a willingness to become a student and ask for help, a humble acceptance of her errors, a burgeoning strength to reckon with a dominant father and retreating husband-and the self-confidence to trust her instincts when it comes to deciding on the best next steps for her son.