Individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are frequently misunderstood by well-meaning family and friends as well as by their teachers and other professionals.

This web-site is designed to provide information with the intent of supporting individuals with ADHD, their parents, caregivers, teachers and other professionals by increasing understanding.

Let me see if Philip can
Be a little gentleman;
Let me see, if he is able
To sit still for once at the table:
Thus Papa bade Philip behave;
And Mamma look'd very grave.
But fidgety Phil,
Won't sit still;
He wriggles
and giggles,
And then, I declare,
Swings backwards and forwards
And tilts up his chair,
Just Like any rocking horse; --
"Philip! I am getting cross!"

See the naughty restless child
Growing still more rude and wild,
Till his chair falls over quite.
Philip screams with all his might.
Catches at the cloth, but then
That makes matters worse again.
Down upon the ground they fall.
Glasses, plates, knives, forks and all.
How Mamma did fret and frown.
When she saw them tumbling down!
And Papa made such a face!
Philip is in sad disgrace.

Where is Philip, where is he?
Fairly cover'd up you see!
Cloth and all are lying on him;
He has pull'd down all upon him.
What a terrible to-do!
Dishes, glasses, snapt in two!
Here a knife, and there a fork!
Philip, this is cruel work.
Table all so bare, and ah!
Poor Papa, and poor Mamma
Look quite cross, and wonder how
They shall make their dinner now.