amy p asked:


my son his having trouble in school. He gets upset over things like the wrong crayon, he doesnt want to sit in his seat or participate with the class. He just breaks down and it ruins his day. He has no problem with the work he is actually very smart. There are days where everything is fine. He is not hyper at home or at school. Its like he just doesnt want to be there. At home he bangs his head on the couch when he gets mad at himself. He has no problem finishing his work and loves to learn. This is his first year of school.
I have talked with his teacher and also took him to his pediatrician. The Dr. gave me info on ADHD.

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mindy c asked:


Has anyone ever heard of the meds Bright Spark or Focus by Native remedies. I found it on the internet and was wondering I have a child wo will be 7 in July and has ADHD and is very hyper and has been on a few different meds since 11/05 and we finally found Concerta and It has worked the best. we had to get him on an IEP at school cause he was getting into trouble everyday at school. He is up early every morning and is rough with his brother and sister and he seems to never calm down when his meds wears off and we even have to give him meds to help him fall asleep at night and btw this is all perscribed by his Dr. who watches him very close we have to see her every 3-6 months. Just trying to find some answers. I hate to have to give him meds and get on him all the time for not listening and being rough at home and at school. Plaese Help!!!!!!!!

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dbnb asked:


my 7 1/2 year old daughter to start taking adderall she was on ritalin la but it was running out prior to school being out and having increased behaviors and unable to do homework or to even remember to bring homework home and then would get in trouble for that and miss out on privledges in school . anyone had any experience with changing from the one to other hoping it will work

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Angela H asked:


My soon-to-be-stepson’s mother raised him with a lot of television and video games (and continues to do so). On top of that, she had little interaction with him working on projects and schoolwork one-on-one.
He is now 9 years old. He can’t keep his mind on anything for very long. Even fun school projects are a huge chore for him to complete and he doesn’t put any effort into them (ie: The class was going to build a model city out of boxes. Each child was given a blank box to create any kind of building he/she chose. All he did was write in plain black pen a few boxes for windows and a little stick-figure guy and refused to do any more work on it.)
We live near a large park that most kids would beg to go to…schools take kids on field-trips there, but he will whine and refuse to go when we go because he wants to stay home and watch TV or play video games. He has no interest in doing anything that would require any small amount of concentration or work. He refuses to read or try to read besides the bare minimum required of him in school. He goes from one game to another to another, etc…
Well, you get the idea. I guess my question is… Can this be reversed? Is there something we can do to reverse this effect, or is that pretty much a hopeless cause? We don’t get to see him much (a couple of weekends per month), but there must be SOME kind of exercise we can do to reverse this. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Angela
I say “Inattention Disorder” because I am not saying he has ADD or ADHD. I have been reading about how TV affects developing brains of children and specifically work by Dr. Dimitri Christakis who studies the link between TV and attention problems in children. What my soon-stepson seems to have matches what this doctor describes seeing in his work as “Inattention”.

See here: http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/healtheducation/tv_adhd/adhdmiddle.html
I KNOW how he was raised incorrectly and his mother is inattentive and he lacks supervision. In the short time that I am a “parent” to him, I try to do the opposite of what she does…healthy meals, physical exercise, educational games, social outings to the park or zoo, a consistent bedtime, etc…
I don’t believe he has ADD or ADHD because that is more of a chemical disorder. I believe his behavior is more of an “inattention” problem that is more of a conditioned response to the constant passive entertainment of the TV.

My question is…once his attention span has been shortened like that, is there anything that I can do to work with him to reverse the short attention span that being constantly & passively entertained while he’s at his mother’s house has created?

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josiejo asked:


My son is immature in my eyes. In my sister’s eyes she feel something is wrong.
He is now in Pre-k..an interactive class, and he has a special ed teacher in the morning work with him. He is delayed in speaking.He did not speak until after 3 years old and he did not walk until 20 months. he was labled lowtone. he dosen’t focus well, but does follow the school rules and listens to the teacher. He is naughty at home. He hits his brothers and cousins, he is hyper, not interested in any activity for more than 5 minutes,He can not be left alone upstairs while I am downstairs because he will get into mischief..for example..he will throw his toothbrush in the toliet or he will climb ontop of furniture..If we are a party he will be warned not to hit other kids, or he will not have any friends..he does it any way. he will call me stupid, I will explain that it is not a nice word, he will get time out..apologize and than call me stupid again. Does anyones child fit this description?

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ericapaige asked:


My son lives with his father, not because I was found unfit just at the time he was more ’stable’ than I. My son just turned 7, has adhd, and often acts on impulse. After a weekend visit with my son, he informed me that after school he walks home and stays by himself until his step-mom gets home. His stepmother works at the daycare right across the street and has her two other kids there with her. I asked him what he does when he gets home and he told me he scoops the litter box and feeds the cat before his step-mom gets home. They live in a small town and she does work right across the road, but I still feel uncomfortable with him staying by himself no matter how long!! His father won’t give me any info, so I’m considering calling DHS… Any suggestions???
Step-moms daycare will only take headstart and under. With his adhd he is very curious and ALWAYS getting into stuff.
Oh, and I was never found unfit!!! Custody was given to his father because I was going through a divorce from an abusive man and had just moved and got a new job. He was married, had the same job for 5 years, and had just bought a new house. My attorney really didn’t do much for me! But I was NEVER found unfit, hell, I got custody of my youngest son because my 7 yr olds father said I was a great mom!!!

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misbrooksie asked:


we are trying to decide if we want to home school 1 of our 6 yr old twins. he is having trouble behavior wise at school, not with other kids, mainly with the principal. his teacher says he is very bright and is doing great academicaly. school is wanting to do tests and evaluations on him to see what is going on. he has been tested for everything under the sun already by the school … add adhd autism sensory intergration disfunction. none of those came up as wrong. so we are trying to decide to homeschool or not. public school isn’t what it’s cracked up to be! they dont want to take time to work out the problem. we are thinking it would be better for him even if we just do it a year or 2. the peditrician said he was too young still for 1st grade as his birthday is june 17th and the cut off is july. he suggested holding both him and his twin back. the school was against it and said they would find a solution to the problem, which they aren’t doing. they call me to come get him alteast twice a week, so what’s the point of him going anyways? need help on this one…

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Kestra SpiritNova asked:


The school teacher reported concern that my son has ADHD. So both the teacher and I completed a questionnaire on his behavior. The survey came back showing that he has ADHD at school, but it all came back as “average” for my questionnaire on his behavior at home, curiously…

I am going to a meeting on Monday, and the people at the school have told me that they’ve already decided to diagnose him with ADHD. They’ve assured me that children can have more difficulty at school than at home, and that the ADHD diagnosis will only help him, so I shouldn’t fight the diagnosis…

Yet, when I read the criteria for ADHD, it says the symptoms must be present at school and home. Why would the school be OK with diagnosing him with ADHD, if he doesn’t present ADHD symptoms at home?

I’m just trying to understand what is going on and how I should approach this next meeting. I don’t think disagreeing would do any good, because they haven’t listened to me so far. What is the best way to handle this?
The assessment was performed by the school psychologist. She said her decision was based on the surveys, teacher input about his classroom behavior (fidgeting), and her interview with him.

The changes they’re proposing are chunking assignments, letting him sit in front of the classroom, giving him reminders to complete his work, etc. It’s all small stuff that the student support team believe will help him in the classroom.

I asked the school staff if they get more money for diagnosing ADHD, and I was informed that 504 plans do not get them extra money, only IEPS do.

I took my son to a psychiatrist for an independent assessment last week but he said there was no formal assessment for ADHD and only went through the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. He talked to us, and agreed that sometimes kids can show symptoms only in large-group settings if they’re “borderline.” He wrote a prescription for Concerta, said it was my decision whether or not to fill it, and he said to come back in a month.
I already have an open Child Protective Services case against my son’s dad. I talked with the people at CPS about my resistance to the push for diagnosing him with ADHD. I was concerned that the school might accuse neglect if I didn’t agree. CPS sympathized entirely with my position, said I was doing the right thing. I have a good relationship with them. So I don’t fear “termination of my rights.”

I resisted the initial ADHD evaluation by the school, but I was told that if I didn’t sign the paper for the formal assessment that they would hold my son back a grade.

I do wonder if the threat to hold him back a grade might be used again at the next meeting. I’ll probably fight it this time, because I’ve been told repeatedly that his academic progress is fine. He looks like he’s not paying attention, but he hears everything the teacher says and learns it all.

Their concern was that he might fall behind later, so better to deal with it now before it becomes a problem.
Thanks everyone for letting me know I’m not crazy to still be questioning this.
To answer some questions, my son is 7 years old. When the teacher is teaching the whole class, he won’t be looking at the teacher, he’ll be looking elsewhere in the classroom or fiddling with something in his hands instead. Even though it looks like he’s not listening, every time the teacher calls on him to answer a question about what she’s talking about, he can answer the question correctly. So he actually is hearing and learning.

He does complete his work at school, but sometimes the teacher complained that she has to remind him to do it instead of just sitting there. He goes to two different classes, and while observing him in the classroom, I’ve noticed that he tends to “slack off” when he’s in a larger group… I get the impression that he thinks he can get away with it if there’s more people and less attention on him. Strikes me as laziness more than ADHD, but I don’t have the expertise to say.
Oh, I forgot to mention that he still gets high grades on his work, usually 100%. The lowest grade he got was an 80% on a math test. As I said, it hasn’t been affecting his school work. The concern is just that the inattention will cause his grades to go down in the future.

As for the abuse case, I have questioned whether or not that could be a confounding factor. The general impression I get is that the school has concluded that is not the case, but I will ask more about it during the meeting.

I haven’t had a teacher suggest ADHD before. He did well in preschool, but his kindergarten teacher did complain sometimes that he had trouble in school. Since the abuse at his dad’s house occurred in kindergarten, it’s possible that’s causing problems for him outside the comforts of home.

I took him to a counselor, and she doesn’t think he’s suffered any lasting effects from it - based on my time with him, I agree with her. CPS dealt with it quickly and are continuing to protect him.

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Ash asked:


Well im 14 and i think i have ADHD im a girl btw.I just noticed it this year like when school started cuz now i am popular and i have alot of friends and like i can be myself cuz im not shy anymore.anyways i always act crazy during school….only school or when im around my friends….like in school:

-I cant sit still,im always messing with papers,doodling,whispering,laughing,not paying attention,tapping my feet or doing little things with my hands when im sitting i cant like jus tsit there and be calm and concentrate

-I ALWAYS get in trouble for talking,goofing off,laughing,and i get like 3 warnings and always get moved to the frnt.

-I drift off into my own dreamland during class sometimes

-I am very loud and like spontaneous lolol

BUT at home or anywhere else its different i have like 2 different personalities, my personality at home is like when i dont have ADHD but when im wiht my firneds or at school i completley change into a whole different person and become like loud and crazy and fun and stuff i think it might be becuz i dont get any attention at home o rmy parents dnt spend times with me they ignore me so i need to get my attention at school. but ya i think one of my personalities might have ADHD lololol if that makes sense at all……..

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hotfemale247 asked:


she is having a hard time at school and at home she is all over the place, she won’t even try to sound out a word and if she does she wont remember it 5 min latter. when i took her to the dr she scored 18 of 19 on the conners quick test. help is there good med’s or any other opion to the problem?
its not that i cant handle her she is my daughter and i love her, but her reading is failing and i don’t want her to repeat 1st grade.

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