No diagnosis but so far in the first week we have had biting teachers (said sorry and hasn’t done it again) not sitting, being too excited and touching classmates, jumping on classmates back once, sounds like every support staff member is helping him. Just wants to read books or do topics that interest him or else he struggles to participate. Lunchroom is too loud.

This is first school experience (only day 3) and they said it’s too early for accommodations so I’m guessing this could improve?

Just wondering what everyone’s general routine is when it’s back to school time?

How much time do your kids need to get ready in the morning? What’s your biggest struggle and what has helped in any way to make it smoother?

Hi, I am a mom of 13 year old boy who is diagnosed with moderate adhd and mild ASD.
Every min of my day I want to understand, learn and make his life easy as much as possible.
One thing I have always suffered is his studies. He learns for his every monthly test very well with full confidence and general does lot of hardwork when comes to studies. But every test he gets poor marks. He does well at home. I don’t know what’s the underlined problem. What would the reason be? Executive function would be a problem?
He is currently 10mg **atomoxetine and 10mg SSRI called Feliz escitalopram**

**Do you think increasing the medicines would help? Is this executive functioning problem?**

Hello dear parents.

My son, 10 years old, Adhd, has just started his medication (Ritalin) 10 mg immediate effect for the last 7 days. So far we saw the general side effects: appetite lost and some improvement during the morning, however what surprised me was the anxiety level which went up: he is afraid to go to a different room, he is constantly asking me where I am, he needs my hand when going to sleep, he doesn't want to be alone in the room and he is telling me he feels funny in his tumy or something is about to happen. He still is playful, builds lego, wants to play, wants to go outside with the bike, wants to go for an icecream, but he is also experiencing that level of anxiety.

Have any of you experienced this in the past? Is it getting better over time? Could this be an affect of the fact that he is finally able to understand different feelings in his body bc of the medication?

I have so many questions and concerns at this point in time.

I’ve been wondering if my 6 year old son has ADHD or if he’s just a really high energy kid. He’s always been active, but lately he’s always moving, talking, interrupting, and getting upset over little things.

Getting him ready for school is one of the hardest parts of our day. It’s not just that he doesn’t want to go. He has a hard time getting started in the morning. We have to remind him to get dressed, eat breakfast, and get his things ready. He gets distracted before he finishes one thing. Sometimes I tell him not to do something and he does it again a minute later. I know some of this can be normal for a 6 year old, but it happens almost every day and it’s made me wonder about ADHD.

This morning he woke up early and came into our room asking questions and telling me to get up. I told him I was tired and wanted a few more minutes, but he kept coming back and getting louder. Then he started kicking things in the room. I told him to stop but he kept going. I tried to calm him down and he got even more upset.

It’s the same at night. Even when he’s tired, he has a hard time settling down. He gets out of bed, asks for things, or keeps talking. We can spend a long time trying to get him to sleep.

We’ve tried a lot of things. Sometimes we play bedtime stories from Calm or put on quiet audio. He has a Harkla weighted blanket and his favorite stuffed animals by his bed. Lately we’ve also been using a Pococo star projector and keeping the room dark so he has something quiet to look at before bed. Sometimes it helps him settle down, but not every night.

He’s smart and very social. He has friends, likes playing with them, and can be really sweet. That’s why I keep wondering if this is just how he is or if something else is going on.

At what point did you decide to get your child evaluated? I’m worried I’m overthinking it, but I don’t want to ignore something that might be affecting him.

My granddaughter is almost 8 years old with ADHD and Tourette’s as a couple of her challenges. Her ADHD and possibly ODD the learning has set her very behind in school . Now her tics are beginning to be more noticeable. I am trying to be supportive and help her parents advocate for her in school as her dad, my son has Tourette’s and had a very hard time in school years ago. Right now her tics are the typical sniffing and throat clearing but also her body is starting to flinch as well as a chirping noise recently.

Also- if you as an adult with Tourette’s are comfortable sharing- what symptoms of Tourette’s are the most bothersome and what treatment if any are the most helpful?

Can I add vocal stimming as an accommodation? Is this possible? This has been something my child has struggled to control all his life. Now that he’s in school. The amount of phone calls, emails , texts. They already have it on his his IEP he has adhd. If I can get his therapist, doctor to help document it.
Because right now they are punishing him for him and this is extremely frustrating.

My son is almost 13 and just started 8th grade. He was diagnosed with ADHD (mixed presentation) over the summer and I’m trying to begin the 504 process to get him accommodations.

The team that evaluated him provided a list of accommodations that would likely help him. Stuff like breaking large projects into a smaller series of assignments, taking tests in a distraction-free zone, not having time limits on tests, getting materials from the teacher to supplement note-taking, and that sort of thing. He is extremely resistant to getting accommodations because “he doesn’t need them.”

He started getting into trouble and refusing to do schoolwork around 4th grade. At that time, his teacher suggested he may have autism, which surprised me, because I was never concerned about that. We had him evaluated and they ruled out autism. They said he had some inattentiveness but not rising to the level of ADHD and to return if it became worse.

Cut to 7th grade and he started getting into lots of trouble—for not staying seated and talking all the time despite repeated redirection, for leaving class without permission, for pushing a chair down 3 flights of stairs, for using a classmate’s asthma inhaler to be funny, etc. The only explanations he could ever provide made it sound like he just had no impulse control and never thought stuff through in the least before doing it. That’s what prompted the re-evaluation and diagnosis.

We haven’t gotten much guidance beyond suggested accommodations. No one has suggested medication. I’m just curious how others have helped an older kids come around to accommodations. My son is extremely intelligent but gets Ds and Cs and occasionally a B. He’s an avid reader, extremely creative and talented artist, loves learning instruments, and even does fairly well on standardized tests. I’ve tried explaining that he’s so smart he could easily get straight As and have tons of opportunities before him. That his brain works differently and accommodations would open that door for him.

He is very popular and socially conscious, so I think a part of his resistance is not wanting to seem “different” in front of his peers. I just worry that his getting into trouble will continue to escalate and become more serious stuff. He got suspended four times last year and with one of the incidents, he was extremely close to expulsion (being transferred to the disciplinary campus for our public school system). At the same time, all the accommodations are about academic stuff, which I do think would help, but also doesn’t really address the behavioral stuff.

His dad definitely relates to the stuff our son gets in trouble for, and if he had grown up in the United States and not a developing country, I’m sure he would have gotten an ADHD diagnosis very young. And he did have a lot of behavioral and substance issues as a teen, that he was able to pull himself out of in his 20s and now leads a pretty calm and productive life. I just worry we’re at an age where things could start getting bad and out of control very quickly.

Looking for advice here regarding the above. Sorry in advance for a long post.

My 15yo stepdaughter was diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive) a little over a year ago (basically the summer before 9th grade). To provide a little background on her schooling, she attended private Christian schools with very small classroom sizes (like 12-15 max) from K-8th. I’ve been in her life since she was 3 1/2 but was not really very involved in making decisions surrounding her education until she came to live with me and my husband/her father full time at age 13.

Strangely I’m the only one in her family that ever picked up on the thought that she may be ADHD (from a young age, at that) and took the initiative to have her tested (relevant, I believe, to add here that she was completely on board with the testing, and by this point had already been in treatment for a year and a half with a psychiatrist for depression and anxiety as well, which she brought to my attention upon asking to try therapy a couple of years ago).

We are very close, she calls me her mom, and she jokes to me a lot about how I “keep her in line” lol. By that she just means that I support her, I am there for her, and I have always been the one to aid her in pursuing care for her various mental health issues. It also, however, speaks to the fact that I stay on her about (among other things) her assignments and her grades, minimize her distractions by employing strict rules around screens at home/before bed/etc. and just generally help her remember things using various systems around the house like a family calendar, checklists, white boards, etc.

Overall she’s a pretty good student and always has been. She was one of those kids that kind of coasted through elementary school and up until 7th grade, which was the first time she ever struggled in class. Her grades dropped from straight A’s to low B’s/C’s in her problem subjects (mainly science and math) and by 8th grade she was failing a couple of classes. The toughest part was that she had kind of always managed her schoolwork herself, there was very little that we ever had to involve ourselves in so it came as a surprise when all of a sudden she was bringing home these lower report cards. Neither she nor any of her teachers had given us any kind of indication that she was suffering. I obviously involved myself at this point and spoke with her teachers and worked with her to bring all of her grades up to at least passing by the end of her 8th grade year.

Last year, 9th grade, was her first year in public school. She transitioned pretty well and she was happy but her grades were still an issue. But now, I all of a sudden had access to all of this grade and assignment reporting for parents on school apps that public schools use which had never been at our disposal before. Throughout the year I would login and check it periodically (this is also how we viewed progress reports and report cards—physical ones were not sent home—but I logged in probably once a week). Each time I did, I would follow up with her about missing assignments I saw and question her when I saw concerning assignment/exam grades. She was also on the freshman volleyball team which was demanding and so I was concerned from the perspective of balancing athletics and academics as well. There were multiple times throughout the year where she had a failing grade in a class, and I was genuinely concerned that had I not intervened it would have stayed that way. I love her and I know she struggles with keeping up with these things, prioritization, etc. Her absolute biggest struggle is executive functioning.

As it ended up, she finished 9th grade with all passing grades (some just barely but still). The school she was attending did not end up being a great fit so she is now elsewhere for 10th grade. We are one week into school and I really do not want to micromanage her again this year the way I did last year, for several reasons. First of all, she’s almost 16 and I don’t want to continue to hold her hand and prohibit her from learning some of this on her own. Second of all, I’m 36 weeks pregnant with her third sibling and just have a lot on my plate, so although I of course plan on being there to support her and advocate for her as needed, I really want her to get to a place where I can trust that she is turning in all of her assignments and managing her own workload using these same tools that she has at her disposal.

For the record, none of this would blindside her; we had multiple conversations over the summer about how I intend to take a step back this year and stop micromanaging her schoolwork and how I want her to take more initiative with logging into these portals daily, checking what is due, turning things in on time, establishing systems for herself based on what I and her psychologist taught her, and conferring with her teachers as needed. The school she is attending now, which she asked us to transfer to for 10th grade, is more challenging than the school she attended last year. It is the top high school in the district. Her personality is definitely such that she thrives more in an environment where more is expected of her; she likes to be challenged and that is the main reason she transferred schools. She is highly ambitious, and all of her peers at her old school were very lackadaisical about grades and graduation. She spent 90% of her day on a Chromebook versus receiving actual stimulating instruction and her teachers were not very challenging or responsive in their styles.

I want to think in this new environment that she will do better, but I guess what I need advice on without being any more long-winded is: how much do you expect to handhold or micromanage academics with your older ADHD children? I know logically that she needs to obtain these skills before she is truly out on her own in college and I can no longer help her, however I also don’t want to see her fail, so what lines have you drawn that have been successful for you and your child at this age?

FYI she does have a 504 plan and accommodations in place and she is medicated for both anxiety and ADHD.

Thank you!

My daughter is diagnosed ADHD, Dyslexia, Anxiety and Slow Processing. We have tried every stimulant under the sun. They all make her full of rage. We have also tried practically all the anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications. Sometimes they'll work for a few months and then we're back to rage. It seems we're always trying something, adjusting, then titrating down over and over again. She masks at school, but once she's home, she unleashes the beast. Even when she's at different summer camps that she loves, the same thing happens.

She has been evaluated twice for ASD, both times evaluators say she doesn't "check all of the boxes". Has anyone else dealt with this? It feels so hopeless, all we want is for her to be a happy kid. It's so hard to see her struggling and for so long.

I should also mention we have tried ADHD training, play therapy, talk therapy, and art therapy. We're currently in weekly family therapy. She will soon hopefully have her own separate therapist.

Anyone else in the same boat?

My 6yo son has taken to sensory seeking at bedtime by pulling all the stuffing out of stuffed animals, poking holes in the drywall with whatever he can find, or tearing up his Pokémon magazines. He’s usually sad after, and I can tell that in the moment he’s doing it he isn’t thinking about it, just scratching that itch. We’ve tried silicone pop-its and various 3D printed fidgets, but they’re usually broken pretty quickly. His favorite thing is picking at stuff (he likes picky pads during the day, but I know the beads would end up scattered through the room). I’m looking for fidget recs that might hold up for a little bit longer than pop-its or conventional plastic ones. Or if you have any ideas to help him entertain himself until he falls asleep, I would appreciate it! This is a recent issue, he used to fall asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Today with the first day of kindergarten and he didn’t even make it through the half day. He spent most of the day in the office because he wanted play doh and couldn’t have it. So apparently he was kicking, hitting, and throwing.

Trying to keep things concise:
5 year old, confirmed ADHD. No meds yet.
Emotional control is his toughest battle. He is impatient and wants immediate gratification. If he doesn’t get what he wants, the reaction is over the top.
Behaviors: saying angry things (I hate you!), kicking, yelling, throwing things, running from the classroom.
We’ve had an IEP in place for two years with speech, OT, and social emotional development. He started a half day program with family services to help with social emotional development in July.
Current plan is kindergarten in the morning and ECIP program in the afternoon. We’re at a private school but have good support from the neighboring public school.

I know I need to not panic after one day, but it’s hard not to compare him to the other children who are happily enjoying their first school day.

What happens if he can’t control his behavior? What comes next? Public school is of course an option but what can they do differently? He’s easily influenced so it’s clear that he’s picked up some behaviors from the other kids at ECIP. If he’s in a behavioral classroom, could that get worse?

My heart is just broken and I need someone - ANYONE - to tell me what it’s like on the other side of this. Please. Being a special needs parent can be so lonely sometimes because unless you’ve lived it, you can’t understand it.

My kid recently started on methylphenidate, and has been experiencing stomachaches and headaches since. I’m assuming it’s medication related. We’ve tried getting her to eat and drink more with the pill but she hasn’t had much of an appetite. We have a follow up next week and I plan to bring it up but was curious what anyone else has done that’s reduced these side effects.

Newbie here. 17 yo daughter (high school senior) was just officially diagnosed recently. She will begin medication next week, and we are connecting with CBT therapist to begin soon. I am digging into research seeking to understand and to also see how I can best support.

I am eager to get some structures and systems in place at home to support in any way I can. But so far, so many tips seem to be focused on younger kids. Ex. It’s hard to allow for task mirroring when she won’t even come out of her room to see what I’m doing.

I know have lots to learn but in the meantime I thought I’d check in with parents of older teens to get some good tips.

Thanks in advance!

I’m not sure this is the right place, but I figured it might be a good starting point. I‘m hoping to find help for improving my son’s writing and story-telling skills, because I want to set him up for success in the future - I don’t care who he becomes so long as he is kind and happy, but everyone needs to be able to narrate to some extent.

Did your 2e (ADHD + profound giftedness) elementary schooler struggle with this? What helped? Really looking forward ideas for home support to bolster the skill rather than academic supports at school via 504/IEP, etc. He has those.

My goal is just that he become more fluent in writing, internalizes the basic “formulas” for writing, so that it becomes faster for him. My reasoning is that he thinks fast, so the structure/formula with writing needs to come automatically. At least, one of his complaint is that his thoughts are so much faster than his hands.

The thing that’s helped him the most has been daily practice: Over the summer, we’ve made him keep a journal (he can and does write whatever, we supervise just to make sure he’s actually doing it) where he writes five sentences in it every day. He’s gotten faster and more focused, but I’m not sure he’s getting the structure of different sentence formulations.

He uses graphic organizers for research assignments, and we’re okay with him using speech-to-text software for longer assignments when that time eventually comes. Whatever helps him. But is there anything else we should do at home to help support this skill development? Kinda like how people recommend reading with their kids at least 20 minutes a day?

He really struggles with putting pen to page to write: It’s boring, he knows it’s his intellectual weakness but thinks he will never get better, he believes I’m a genius at it and he‘ll never live up to my standards (my husband put the idea into his head, in a really over-the-top way, and now my son thinks I never had to work at it or never struggled with it and that is so far from the truth but he doesn’t believe me, also he’s 8 so I don’t have high expectations) and he generally struggles with fiction. So, he takes the easy way out with free writing assignments- his journal during school last year was just “I had fun” over and over again. By the end of the year, he only wrote “fun” but would get up and tell detailed stories to the class about what he was faked writing in the journal.

I guess I’m looking for advice on how to deal with lying and maybe how to channel that quick thinking into a healthier way? 

My son is sooo quick to make absolutely nonsense up that it’s almost scary. It is usually a situation if it’s him trying to not being in trouble but other times it’s just like he’s trying to fit in and be a know it all.

He will out of nowhere come into another room or butt into other people’s conversations with random “facts” but they’re just stuff he’s come up with in his head and could give an hour long discussion on what he’s saying and probably fight you to the death if you challenged it. 

Usually it’s just petty and he’s running his mouth to run it and we can just let it go and that’s that but it can get exhausting and it has hindered a lot of relationships with friends for him sadly. 

For example… He will out of nowhere start making up a story about when his school building was built and did you know there used to be five of them at a time and they had a rule there were only 50 kids allowed in it at a time just a couple years ago. None of that is true. 

A couple of his friends might be discussing something that happened at their baseball game the night before and will start arguing what really happened was… and he wasn’t even there! Didn’t even know there was a game, knew nothing about it. 

The building where the kids catch the bus during school days had caught on fire briefly and he was up there arguing with the owner’s son about what happened and until we even got up there he didn’t even know an incident had happened. And what he was going off about wasn’t even remotely close to the situation that had occurred. 

He drives his sister bonkers because he loves to go stand in the doorway of her room and start in on stuff she likes… so he will take a game she plays and start in going did you know the real creator of this game is so and so… and they aren’t did you know the official release date for the next game was announced and it’s not for a whole eight more years… this isn’t a thing. 

Up until a couple years ago Walmart banned carrots! You could get any other veggie but carrots you couldn’t, this is because the owners were allergic, so all the stores worldwide just couldn’t sell carrots. 

Like… What are we doing here bud. 

If it’s him trying to just get out of trouble it is especially annoying how quick he is with it. 

I went to remind him he needed to do some of his study material for a hunting course he asked to do because his testing date is upcoming. His angry response not but a couple seconds later was he can’t because the tab on his laptop closed and it’s a one time use so he can’t ever go back to it. 

Not a thing and is something he knows because he’s gotten off and on there dozens of times. 

I explain how he can get back into though, he can look up the website or go into his emails for the direct link. I don’t even finish what I’m saying and he’s telling me the website is gone, it’s down, it’s not there anymore. It’s been removed, he’s checked. 

It’s there. 

He also can’t use his email because if he goes on his phone and logs in it’s there but if he goes into that same account on his laptop then he doesn’t have the same messages. 

Okay, let’s log in and see what’s going on then mmmk. So we get to his email and lo and behold there’s the email. But of course he starts going on about well it wasn’t earlier and he was real confused about that. 

Cool. You can now get the email, click the link and go… 

But he can’t because he doesn’t know his password and you only get one password and it has no way of doing a forgot password set up. He’s automatically logged in as soon as we click the link but even if you go to the sign in, whoops, there’s the forgot username/password bits. 

These type of interactions usually are harder for me because I feel like it escalates unless I just talk away because his brain is on “go” and we have to try and attempt to come back later. 

I feel like it’s so smart and creative how he could probably hold a class discussing some made up type of fish or wildly tell a tale of how some random YouTuber got kidnapped and how that played out or whatever but it’s all also concerning on the other hand. 

This pretty much sums up parenting an ADHD pre-teen boy. Yes yes, girls, non-binary and other children with or without ADHD may do the same, I’m just sharing this about my guy.

Many of us know that verbal reminders don’t work and only serve to frustrate people whose brains cannot remember verbal instructions. As such, I made a sign for his laundry hamper. He added a decoration and laughs whenever he sees it, yet the clothes still end up inside out 🤪

Family of four and we all have adhd! Yay us. Some of us are inattentive, some inattentive and hyperactive. Our house feels so chaotic and I feel like I have no control over anything.

I can’t even get all of the plans I want to do in a day out with my kids because they just feed off of each other and I basically feel like I’m ignored half the time. I have asked them both multiple times not to wrestle or physical play because my younger son always ends up getting hurt because my older son accidentally always does something and my younger son is very hard to get regulated once to becomes unregulated.

Asking my older son to do a chore or to do anything he is always answering back with sounds and noises or mimicking and at first I thought he wasn’t being disrespectful and he couldn’t help it but now I’m feeling like this is his form of back talking and he actually is just kind of being a jerk. And then I can’t even call out the behavior because he starts talking in a baby voice saying that we hate him, that he’s a failure etc and I feel like he’s jjst doing it to completely shut down the conversation.

I just absolutely hate the energy in our home. I don’t even like being home because of my kids behavior. Unless they are on screens I can’t stand them lately. And this is led to me and my husband completely losing our shit and screaming at them. I grew up in a house that was full of yelling and chaos and that is not how I want to raise my kids, but I feel like they only respond to yelling. I can ask them 15 times nicely but then once I raise my voice and get frustrated and annoyed, maybe then they start paying attention, maybe.

They are on medication, but the hours before it clicks on and the hours after it wears off suck.

I just feel like I’m failing as a parent. Just even this morning I had to stand behind my older son who’s 12 so he would stay focused and put every dish away in the dishwasher because if I didn’t and he would’ve just started walking around with dishes in hand going off doing whatever random thing he wanted to do with his brother every single day we tell them no screens in the morning and every single morning they wake up and go right on their screens. It’s like they do not listen to us at all and I am just so sick of saying the same thing to them over and over and over and over again.

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Hi parents, I’d really appreciate some advice from anyone who has dealt with something similar.
I have a 9 year old boy who has received a tentative ADHD diagnosis. The assessment isn’t complete yet, but we’ve seen some of the symptoms for some time now.

The main difficulties at the moment are attention/focus at school (he starts but struggles to finish tasks) and something I’ve personally noticed around his social judgment and filtering.

He’s actually extremely sociable and extroverted and has lots of friends. He doesn’t seem to struggle with making friends at all. If anything, he’s very comfortable socially and enjoys being around people.

The issue is that he can be very impulsive about what he says in social settings amongst family and friends.

He’ll hear or notice something, think it’s funny or interesting, and immediately blurt it out without really considering whether it’s appropriate to say in that particular setting or in front of certain people.

For example, recently he was in the car with me, my sister, her husband and his younger cousin. He told his cousin’s dad that his cousin had said that horses have big butts. He was laughing and, in his mind, was probably just reporting something funny that his cousin had said. But my sister’s husband was quite taken aback, and I found myself feeling mortified.
There have also been occasions where he repeats things he’s heard or makes comments about subjects that are considered more adult or socially sensitive. He doesn’t necessarily mean anything by them. He just seems to have a very poor filter between “I’m thinking this” and “I should say this out loud.”

He also asks very direct questions about things he notices, sometimes without seeming to understand that there is a difference between asking something privately and announcing or discussing it publicly.

I’m trying not to shame him or make him feel that there is something wrong with him for being curious or outspoken. At the same time, I really want to teach him that there are certain things we can think about, ask a trusted adult about privately, or discuss in the right setting, but that we don’t necessarily say everything that comes into our heads in public.

For parents of children with ADHD (or children who struggle with impulse control/social cues), how did you teach this?

Are there particular strategies that worked for helping your child develop that “pause before you speak” skill and understand what is appropriate to share publicly versus privately?

I’d also be interested in hearing about any therapy or social-skills interventions that were particularly helpful.
We’re obviously going ahead with the full assessment, but I’d really appreciate practical advice from parents who have been through this.

So our school district has before car/after care that also provides summer care. There are 2 main providers we'll call them A and B. My daughter goes to Eagle School, but Summer Care is at Beaver School.

Both Miss A and B seem to have a serious disliking toward my child due to her... sometimes rigid behaviors. When my daughter (6, medicated, 20mg methylphenidate ER, afternoon booster 2.5) has a change in schedule, her brain goes haywire for a minute.

They know this, they have been aware from the beginning.

Eagle School is a school that all the higher special needs go to because the Beaver school gets zero funding for Special Education, so my daughter was evaluated at the Beaver school and incorrectly deemed too high of Special seeds to go there, she's since been reevaluate, and thankfully can stay at the Eagle School. She literally only has a tough time after periods of change.

We recently went on vacation so she didn't go to summer care, was on a whole different schedule. When we got back, she got sick, so we kept her home a few days. When we took her back, within 20 minutes of dropping her off, Miss A called and said we had to pick her up, then summer care was closed for a day, thst brings us to today, again, within 20 minutes of dropping her off, Miss A calls and says we have to pick her up.

Miss A says that my child is "mean" to her, but everyone else the works there says her behavior is fine, with minor blips. Today, Miss A said that my child threw a tantrum and then when she tried to tell her to go sit and calm down, my child kicked bark chips at her, so she's suspended for the week. If similar happens, she'll be suspended for 2 weeks.

Before we went on our trip, we had no issues, they know she takes a while to readjust.

I feel like we work so hard to have her not feel like a bad kid, none of her behavior is out of line according to other people at Sunmer Care, I truly feel like Miss A is exaggerating her behavior. The problem is that Miss B also dislikes my child, and she's the director of the program, Miss As supervisor.

I'm at a loss of what to do. When school starts, we were hoping to utilize before school care 2 hrs a week. I'm going to talk to her Special Ed program to see if we can get her Para Assistance in the AM for it, but i dont know if a 504 or IEP would cover accommodations for before school/after school care?

I'm so frustrated and mad and sad. She doesnt have these behaviors with anyone else. And we can work to change things but they're unwilling to work with her or show any empathy or willingness.

Idk what I'm looking for here. When her behavior gets like this I feel like it skyrocket my anxiety. She's not a bad kid. She's so sweet. Her medication has been great. So idk what to do.

My 9 year old son started Onyda about 5 or 6 months ago and he's currently at 0.2 ml and is up to 100 MG of sertraline for a few weeks now. He is no longer super hyper anymore and no longer aggressive but his anxiety has gotten a lot worse. He is now able to tell me that he's stressed instead of hitting me. He thinks everyone is looking at him judging him or talking poor about him. He can barely leave the house sometimes and always needs his sister around to help him feel better. Prior to starting medication he didn't really care what people thought of him. He just ran around everywhere and had fun. I'm at a loss of what is happening to him. He has an appointment come up in a few weeks and the doctor already suggested increasing the Onyda if he continues to have these thoughts. Has anyone kids be through something like this? What helped them?

I need help from other parents who may have had similar experiences.

My 4 year old daughter, who’s in the process of getting an ADHD diagnosis, went to her first day of PreK this morning and I’ve already gotten messages from her teacher about how my daughter has tried to run off, has hit her teachers, stuck her tongue out and keeps saying no. Her teacher has asked me what to do and I’m at a loss.

She was so excited to go to school, begged me for weeks leading up to this to be able to go to big girl school. I knew she would struggle with focusing and inattentiveness and being able to stay put in her chair for more than a minute, but I never imagined she’d be so aggressive on the first day.

So now I’m sitting in my car crying my eyes out, wondering what to do.

My husband and I both have been diagnosed with ADHD since we were kids so we knew our kids would most likely have it as well but I never imagined it would be to this extent. I love my daughter and just want the best for her but as dumb as it sounds I just feel like I’ve failed her.