The Notebook kid

Brock is my ADD child.
He was diagnosed early in elementary school with learning disability's and attention deficit disorder.
I heard once the reason kids with ADD fidget is because it is easier for them to focus. Brock shakes his legs a lot. Many times we will be sitting in our car at an intersection and his legs' movement rocks the car while we wait. He also has other habits.
He has to write himself notes. He says it is to remind him of things. But the only trouble is he has SO MANY that he forgets that he wrote things down or loses them. It is almost comical how he is with all these notes. He writes notes like...

Things to to monday.
wake up.
get dressed (really ?)
eat breakfast (um. no you can take a break on that today)
play on runescape (ok. do you really think you need to write this one down, B?)

Reece says "BROCK, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIME YOU WRITE 'WAKE REECE UP' YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO FORGET!" My kids love to get up insanely early... at 4am to play on the internet. BUT I block them til 5am at least, so they must sleep in. Reece likes to sleep more than Brock, but I just consider that a part of his 'disability'.

He has to speak to himself a loud. He obsesses a bit about things. Such as shots. He hates 'em. Borderline TERRIFIED. He is already worrying about his booster for Tetnus. yep. EIGHT more years.

At the last check up the MD said "It sounds like he needs a notebook to write things down." What a great idea.
So tonight, I finally dug out a notebook and said "Brock this is YOUR NOTE BOOK, FOR NOTES. Use it. Please."

sigh.