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When education has removed the stigma from the minds of all women, this disease might very well be shown to be the most common affliction in human history.

The cause of DND is not yet known; some scientists believe that using a word over 100,000 times in the course of a lifetime may simply fade that word from long-term memory; mothers simply reach the lifetime limit earlier because two-year old child as proof positive that the repetition of a word more than 100,000 times (in this case, the word Mommy) does not cause selective noun amnesia.

Although modern science may never be able to cure DND or discover what exactly causes it, we as mothers and fellow sufferers can still help one another to recognize the illness and learn to live in harmony with it.

The next time you hear yourself shouting, "CLAUDIA-CODY-BETSY-LOGAN-JILL....YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! GET IN HERE!," you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that mothers all over the world are doing the same thing.

(This after thought is included for you for FREE by Denise Lower)

.........Now that is truly funny.   I find myself in the lines of that article more than I would like to admit.  Sometimes I think forgetting what I’m saying happens because I am just too lazy to FORCE myself to remember what anyone is saying, even myself sometimes, which brings me to my next point.

EXERCISE.......and that is a dirty eight-letter word to me.  I HATE exercise, physical exercise, that is.  To me there is nothing more boring than waving your arms around over and over again.  Or running in the same circle, or going up the same step, over and over and OVER again.......what is wrong with these people, can’t they get it right the first time?

HOWEVER, there is a form of exercise that ANYONE can partake in, whether you simply abstain from exercise as a religious conviction (I tell people it is against my religion), or whether you cannot exercise due to physical or health restrictions. 

The type of exercise I am referring to is the exercise of the mind.  Recently, I heard a medical doctor on the radio say that one of the ways to ward off many of the early signs of aging, memory loss and even Alzheimer’s, is to keep the mind active.  I can even handle that!  He went on to suggest mental activities such as crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, video games (within reason here, people) and even board games, card games and games you can download on the computer, like Tetris and Mah Jong.

Now, that is the kind of exercise I can handle, and it sounds like fun too.  Maybe consider it a little mental vacation.  There are days when I really think I need to take the family picture down and make little labels with everyone’s names on them, and put them under the appropriate person in the picture.  However, I find my mind "sharper" on those days when I have done something challenging on this computer, or even when I have had to do MANY things, keep a list (check it twice), go to place A, B, C thru Z AND remember to put gas in the car, all at the same time. 

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