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My son is a kind, sensitive and caring boy. He will give you the shirt of his back if you needed it. He has exaused me by the end of the day. He refuses to listen to me. He can't look me in the eye and listen. He wants things his way or no way. I don't like to raise my voice but he just wont listen. He frustrates me when he wont try. He started school today and already he refuses to to read. I has a tutor twice a week to help him and he wont read for her. I'm very worried about him because he probably should have stayed back in second grade. His teachers, my husband and I worried about it lack of self confidence. We figured if we worked with his reading he would catch up. Does anyone else have a child like him? ↓
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| Name: jennie | Date: Aug 26th, 2008 8:30 PM |
| i have a 9yr old boy who 18 months ago was exactly the same! He now takes concerta, slow release ritalin and is in top groups across the board at school! Fantastic for school....at home is different again. Along side ADHD he has ODD (oppositional defiant disorder) and Dyspraxia. the ODD causes huge tension in our household, he always has to have the last word and will argue black is white even knowing full well that it's black! he rarely listens therefore jobs are only half done if at all. the Dyspraxia means his co-ordination isn't too clever he has the writing age of a 6yr old, but there are ways round this with school which we are working on now. So i suppose what i'm trying to say is don't despair. medication does help although is a constant worry and even if they only give him relief enough to concentrte and school, you'll probably find that there's and exremly clever child in there bursting to get out but doesn't know how. It's hard frustrating upsetting and an extreme emotional rollcoaster, i hate every minute, but you just have to keep fighting and hope that when the teenage years arrive hormones will change and so will they! good luck email me anytime . . . . [email protected] ↑ |
| Name: irish Amy | Date: Aug 27th, 2008 12:02 AM |
Hi, yes your son sounds very familiar lol, I have a 7 yr old daughter and am awaiting an appointment for her to see an adhd specialist, I know how exausting your son probably is cos my liitle girl is, I was so worried about her self confidence too so I put her into a drama group, she hated it but I made her go, they did a xmas play in a theatre and she was dreading it, saying she did'nt want to do it and she was'nt going, SHE LOVED IT!!!!!!!!! and wants to go back again in september!
best of luck with your son :-) ↑ |
| Name: Maddi | Date: Aug 31st, 2008 11:13 PM |
| Hiya. He sounds rather like my son who's 7. He can't concentrate for more than 2-3 minutes, unless its on something he's chosen to do, school are very worried that he will not cope with the harder work this term. He gets angry and frustrated when he can't do something straight away because he knows he can't concentrate on anything long enough to learn how. He knows there's something different about him and it's affecting his confidence and self esteem. I was interested to hear about your son having ODD, Jennie. I've never heard of that before. My son definitely has that, even if he's never been diagnosed. He is sooooo difficult. Always has to have his own way, very mouthy...to everyone, has no fear of consequences, very stubborn, rules the house, is constantly upsetting/attacking/scaring/snatching toys away from his little brother, if he has a bad day...so does everyone else. I am physically and emotionally drained on a daily basis. We're waiting to see the ADHD specialist to get him put on medication. Everyone I know thinks i'm a hard bitch to want to 'drug' him (as they put it....I call it helping him), but I can't bear the thought of having to go on like this indefinitely. It's not fair on him, he deserves to have a decent childhood and future. And it's also not fair on me, my husband or our younger son. If anyone needs to vent their problems, email me on [email protected] because I don't know anyone else with children with ADHD and I could definitely do with advice from people in the same situation. ↑ |
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