Questions tagged [adhd]
ADHD is an acronym for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. People with ADD and ADHD struggle to maintain focus on certain tasks as they have a more difficult time "tuning out" extra stimuli. They can become overly attentive to distractions, and/or be impulsive and over-active. Many children are "wiggly" and inattentive, but these children have these conditions outside the normal range for that child's particular age.
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17 year old boy being out of control
I'm a 23 year old sister who's worried about her brother. He's 17 years old.
Our parents got separated last year after having an abusive relationship for decades, and now my two younger siblings and I ...
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Toddler body going limp- leaning, laying, acting lathargic or "boneless"m
I have looked up going "boneless" in toddlers and articles mention it's a thing they do when they are tantruming.
This is a different kind of boneless- My 3 y.o. when doing an activity like ...
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Should I allow my child to drop an activity just because he’s lost interest?
We encourage our 7 y/o child with adhd to experience different activities that interest him and also help him with social skills. He is impulsive and is eager to participate but loses interest quickly ...
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15-year old taking too long with homework
We have a 15-year old, standard-issue geeky honors student. Good all-around. We have a problem with his homework. I think it's a problem with attention management.
Here's the deal - sophomore year, ...
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4-Year Old Fights the School Routine
As best I can tell, my daughter sometimes hates getting ready for school. To be clear, she doesn't hate going to school, but the morning routine itself. What's frustrating about this is that it is ...
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Teen displays bullying behavior towards his siblings, and also towards my kids, how to handle?
We have a family friend stay with us. She has 4 kids. Two teenage boys (17 and 14) and two younger kids (8 yo boy and 6 yo girls).
All kids except the 17 year old has been diagnosed with ADHD.
The 14 ...
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How do you improve the attention span of a child with ADD/ADHD without drugs?
I have a 7 year old child who very likely has ADD and/or ADHD, he can't focus on his own for more than 30-60 seconds. If someone is working directly with him, then they can generally keep him engaged,...
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Child with ODD and ADHD
I honestly am confused about what to do as a parent. I have a 4 year old child with severe ADHD symptoms and ODD and persistent impulse control issues. My child experiences level 10 tantrums multiple ...
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My 3 year old just refuses to listen to me
I have a 3 year old little boy. Me and his father are both ADHD and my son's doctor says he shows signs of being ADHD too. We don't really want him to be on medication because meds messed me and his ...
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How to help a teen that wants to learn productive skills, but has entertainment addiction?
I have a son who has ADHD. He is very passionate and loves to work really hard at anything he does, but he has serious trouble focusing on anything which involves a non-trivial amount of (perceived) ...
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What do I do as a highschooler with extremely strict parents?
I love my parents very much and I'm extremely grateful for everything they've done for me. Sadly, there's some things that mess with my head. I'm only a freshman in highschool (USA), and I've been ...
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How/should I encourage child's father to look into his 5 year old child's ADHD?
I'm a 'honorary Uncle' for a child who is 5 years old. The child has not been diagnosed by a doctor yet, but as someone who is ADD himself and has some experience volunteering with kids, including ...
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How to help my 5-year-old brother to improve in Math
My 5-year-old brother has recently showed cleverness resolving math problems which aren't for his age like adding and subtracting big numbers, learning multiplication tables and recreating Fibonacci ...
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How to make my 8-year-old son stop crying over the most simple things?
My 8-year-old son has ADHD and has been on the same medication for 3 years. Anytime he doesn't get something he wants, has to do something he doesn't want to do (homework, chores, stop playing his ...
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What to do about my adopted 11-year-old son's anger issues?
I have adopted my 11-year-old when he was a baby. He has the biggest heart, but is the most challenging:
Parents all siblings - yells and pushes, pulls hair, throws things at
them and squeezes their ...
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As a teenager, my mom refuses to believe that I have anxiety/depression/ possibly ADHD. How can I help her understand that she is hurting me?
I am in 8th grade, and I am currently in four high school classes. I understand that these are significantly high stakes classes, and I genuinely try my best in each one of them. I am currently ...
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Friend kid problem
My friend and I have been friends for about 9 years. She has a son who has severe ADHD and my daughter is 5 and she has mild autism.
When my friend is around with her son, her son is very ...
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How to discipline very violent behaviour with an ADHD child of 7
My 7 year old son, who has been diagnosed with ADHD, is exhibiting hard to manage behavior. Some recent examples are:
He doesn't do as he is asked
He runs out of school by a main Rd alone
He gets ...
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How to stop my 5-year-old from being very combative to my 2-year-old?
I am a single mother of 2 boys. My 5-year-old is very combative to my non-verbal 2-year-old. Earlier today he said he "hated" his brother. He is constantly mean to my baby! Just right after I got to ...
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12 year old grandson hitting 7 year old sister
My 10 year-old grandson hits, pushes, kicks and spits on my 7 year-old grand-daughter. He has ADHD. When she complains, he always says it’s not his fault, that it was a accident or she got in the way ...
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18-year-old son doesn't want to finish highschool and is smoking a lot of weed!
We are a family of three and moved from Colombia, S.A., 6.5 years ago to Bethesda, MD, from the most beautiful home. However, it wasn't our home, it was my parents-in-law's home. It is a big land, so ...
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ADHD and physical activity prior to school work
My 10 years old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD two years ago. I found that when she does physical exercises before homework, she is more concentrated, happy and willing to work with me. I am ...
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Are fidgets an effective tool for helping ADHD children focus?
Fidgets are small toys or gadgets that can be twiddled, poked, and/or clicked. The idea was explained to me as giving fingers something to do that doesn't take much brain power, allowing an ADHD child ...
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How to convince a young child with ASD to begin ADHD medicine?
Our 9 year old daughter is high functioning on the autism spectrum. We applied for an IEP after seeing some suspiciously low test scores at school. Her overall intelligence (as scored by two separate ...
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My child wants GTA V for his birthday
My 10 year old son wants to play Grand Theft Auto V, which is PEGI 18.
My son has ADHD and I'm really worried that he will start acting like his favourite characters in the games and I don't want ...
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How do I get my 8-year-old, who was diagnosed with ADHD, to be respectful and do her chores?
I have an integrated family and I have 3 children in total: My husband's 14-year-old daughter, my 8-year-old daughter and our 5-month-old son.
My 8-year-old has ADHD which I'm having difficulty with ...
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Mindfulness Meditation for 6 year old with ADHD, ASD
I have a 6 year old boy with somewhat severe ADHD. He also has been diagnosed as being on the Autistic spectrum at a low level ( my sense is that the ASD symptoms are primarily driven by the ADHD ).
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Is my granddaughter Transgender? [closed]
I am a grandma who loves her granddaughter immensely. She moved out of her mother's house because they didn't get a long and she was emotionally abusive to her.
I took her in and I didn't mind it ...
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How to deal with an unsupportive parent
TL;DR My mother isn't supportive and she doesn't seem to understand me. My family life is miserable and I don't know what to do about my situation. I know I should probably see a counselor but my ...
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How can I be more meaningful in my thanks to my parents?
I see a lot of posts about people requiring help with their children/parents/grandparents, and I'm blessed to say that I have none of these problems.
My issue is that I was a terror as a child. I ...
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How to help my 7 year old daughter with ADD organize her room?
We moved a few weeks ago and this means we are all still working to put things away and find places for everything. My daughter has ADD symptoms, particularly being easily distracted. (She has not yet ...
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How to control and raise a hyperactive brother?
I have a 5 year old adopted brother who is very hyper. His first nursery school refused to accept him into his classes anymore because of this, which angered our family and we had to transfer him to a ...
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Should I seek a diagnosis for dyslexia for my daughter?
My daughter just finished second grade and will start third grade in the fall. She was diagnosed with ADHD when she was 3 and a half. We started her in pre-school at age 4 with an IEP, and she has ...
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What to do about 6.5-year-old grandson out of control?
About 1 1/2 years ago my grandson started acting out. It has now become so bad and we need to get him under control.
First off I will say that my grandson lives with his mother as his mother and ...
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How to be a good Single Mom with a large family and dealing with ADHD
I am recently divorced and have full custody of our six children. My husband was violent with the children and I'm not sure how to discipline them without using violence. My children range in age from ...
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What to do when a 12-year-old boy has defeated behavior management program (Kazdin method)?
I am in a six year relationship with a woman who has two kids, a 15-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.
We have moved a lot. The child's father has been incarcerated for most of the child's life. ...
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How to encourage my 3rd grade son to be more calm, respectful, and responsible?
I would like to ask two related questions:
How can we encourage a child who is in 3rd grade with ADHD/ADD to do his own homework without relying on his mom?
How can we teach him to behave more calmly,...
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How to deal with my 5-year-old son who has ADD/ADHD and constantly misbehaves?
We live in Texas. My child is 5 years old and an only child. I was a single mom up until 10 months ago. From the age of 9 months until 3 months ago I was the only one caring for and raising my child. ...
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Has anyone had success with Occupational Therapy and ADHD?
Occupational therapy has been suggested for our 6 year old with ADHD. Has anyone had success with this mode of treatment?
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Authoritative stance of AMA against ADHD?
I recently received word from someone with a psychology background that the American Medical Association (AMA) came out with a stance against ADHD being a valid illness or diagnosis. I have been ...
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My step son is being treated for ADHD and we are not sure if he should be
My step son is 7 years old. He lives with his mom and step dad. His dad and I have him every other weekend, summers, and holidays that his mom will allow us.
He gets in trouble at school and mom ...
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How do I motivate my ten-year old to take responsibility and to do his best?
I worry that my ten-year old son is developing (has developed) a mindset that will come back to bite him as he gets older. He is a very bright and active kid, but does not like to extend himself and ...
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ADHD-friendly occupations
I recently read A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D., which discussed the idea that certain occupations are much better suited to a person with ADHD than others. This idea is interesting to me, because my son ...
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Teaching my 10 year old son appropriate bathroom manners
My 10 year old son has ADHD. He has some severe issues with focus and memory. We've tried various things to help him focus and remember but they all seem to arbitrarily stick or fail.
For now he ...
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Could it be ADHD?
My sister has shifted to our city recently after losing her husband in an accident. We were not that close earlier. Last time when we met her kid was about 8 years old and going to school and all was ...
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How do I help a child overcome Severe difficulty with Task Initiation?
My daughter is bright, able, and enthusiastic about learning, but has a really hard time initiating a variety of tasks - even those she enjoys. Admitedly, I am not unlike her. It is almost as if a "...
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Too many variables at play -- troubled "son"
So, here's the story.
My ex-girlfriend, whom I have an 11 year old son with, had a son before ours with a man who has never seen his son past the age of one. He's now 16. He grew up a generally happy ...
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How can I deal with my unreasonable 8 year old with ADHD?
I have two kids, 8 and 5 years old. My first boy has ADHD he is on medicine, but the medicine will stop working after 4pm, or some times works good or some times so-so.
The problem I have with him ...
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What do you do to help an ADHD kid get along in the classroom or with school work better?
Rather than always trying to change the child, what are some techniques for ways to help a "wiggly kid" function in the classroom better without it just being about "sitting still"?
The methods I ...
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Attention-promoting activities for a toddler
ADD runs in our family ("in fact, it practically stampedes"), and I'm starting to see my toddler's attention become more and more difficult for him to control; he's beginning to have difficulty ...
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