Jangelle the ADHD Angel - Training the Dunelm Way
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“Oh dear” thought Jangelle “when is life going to improve?” And while she was indulging in such self-pity, she didn’t hear the cry from the little Nigerian boy, who was on her list for today. He was walking home from school, all alone and having to cross two main roads, walk through a subway and across a mini-park. He went safely and successfully all the way to the second main road, stopped at the kerb, looked right, looked left, looked right again and began to cross – not on a crossing and with no-one to help him, and his little five-year old legs hadn’t got him very far when along the road came a car, going very fast, and the driver, a drug addict failed to see little Nygie, and with no attending angel – Jangelle was still day dreaming about Jike and Mimi and not focussing on the job she was supposed to be doing at all, little Nygie was hit by the car, and there he lay – still, bleeding and bruised in the road. “Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear” thought Jangelle as she rushed to the scene, “I have failed to look after him. I have failed to protect him, I have failed to be his attending angel?” then Jangelle suddenly in an ADHD sort of way found the strength to do something.
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A young trainee angel, Jangelle, sets off on the difficult job of getting her wings. Things aren't easy for Jangelle because she has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder but she manages, with a bit of help, to bring out the best in herself.
Jangelle helter skelters through adventure and challenge experiencing setbacks which have to be overcome along the way as the story unfolds.
A short book that should encourage the growing number of girls who are diagnosed with ADHD to overcome the difficulties of their condition and recognise the positive characteristics that they have in bucketloads. Short enough for even those with a very tiny attention span to be able to get to complete and feel as big a sense of achievement as Jangelle!
About the Author
Liz Smith had a great interest in angels and ADHD having taught many children with ADHD over the years and believing that the characteristics of the condition can be used to good effect. Together with her daughter, Kate Spohrer, she wrote this story before she passed away in 2007.