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An Old Book: Fidgety Phil
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Training ourselves to fidget effectively involves developing two of the most important skills we can ever learn: self-monitoring and self-regulation. …

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Fidgeting to stay focused…Imagine that! Sounds counterintuitive, but that is just what Dr. Rotz and Coach Sarah Wright are recommending in their new book, Fidget to Focus. Advocating repetitive sensory-motor activities as a fundamental strategy for improving attention and other cognitive abilities, they present a unique and fun way to turn outer chaos to calm focus.

Patricia O. Quinn, MD Director, National Center for Gender Issues and ADHD

I love Fidget to Focus. I want to congratulate you on this wonderful and unique contribution to the field. Your book was very informative about how the ADD brain works and current understanding about the disorder, as well as the numerous practical, helpful sensory strategies for self-regulation that you shared.

Sandra Rief, Author of How To Reach And Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions

Full of tips and strategies collected over years of shared experiences, Fidget to Focus is a gold mine of information and sometimes surprising, sometimes heart-warming stories about how to stay focused and on track, even when tasks are tedious, dull, and boring

Thom Hartmann, Author of Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

An Old Book: Fidgety Phil

After Fidget to Focus had gone to print, one of the authors unexpectedly came across an amazing treasure: a volume, printed in Philadelphia in 1884, of Dr. Heinrich Hoffman’s original children’s book translated into English. The version of Fidgety Phil in that book is slightly different than the one cited in our book. We’ve reproduced the other one for you here as a matter of general and historical interest.

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Click here to read the Fidgety Phil poem.

To see acknowledgements and illustrations click here.

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An Old Book: Fidgety Phil

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An Old Book: Fidgety Phil