Aimee Kaufman spent many hours during her younger daughter’s childhood learning about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and advocating for her needs while working part-time as an accountant. Along the way, she discovered that she has adult ADHD, which provided her with a unique insight into her daughter’s disability. Today, Aimee owns her own QuickBooks consulting business and cherishes the time she and her husband spend in Jersey City with their grown daughters (and their husbands). Aimee and her husband, Barry, live in Berkeley Heights, NJ. 

Thank you for always loving me, Aimee Kaufman’s daughter, Sam, wrote in a Mother’s Day card at twenty-two years old. Reading those words, Aimee knew she’d been right to follow her heart throughout her younger daughter’s tumultuous childhood. 

Aimee spent many years doubting herself and fielding hurtful criticism about the way she was raising her daughter. But through it all, she stubbornly held to the belief that whatever tools and tricks she and Sam picked up from her own copious research and the experts she sought out to help her daughter, the true key to Sam’s happiness and success was unconditional love. In the end, the strong bond she cultivated with her daughter is what allowed them both to survive all the ups and downs—and, eventually, get Sam through school and into a career where she thrived. 

Heartfelt but clear-eyed, No One Else I’d Rather Be is an encouraging resource for parents looking to feel more confidence in the decisions they make regarding their child with a disability—and a testament to the power of a parent’s unconditional love.