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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ds is 6, he has always been a kind of "trying" child, but lately he has become unbearable. I don't know if he maybe has ADHD or something else but he is making our entire household miserable. He is a sweet boy but something is wrong and I don't know where to start to get some help. At school he is an angel-but he loves rules and structure. At home he wakes up at 6am and immediately (before he even gets out of bed) screeches, seems to think its funny and seems agitated even. He is hyper, loud, and basically gets yelled at all day long-we feel like we are failing as his parents. Our whole house and life revolves around trying to make him behave, our 2 year old behaves better and is getting ignored since our 6 year old requires so much time and attention:( We went on vacation last week and even considered leaving early because he made our trip so miserable. Someone please help! Do I start with a psychologist? Should I repost this in special needs forum?[/quote] We found Neal Horen at Georgetown helpful for a similar kid. He works with the methood from The Explosive Child. If they see similar behavior at school this year I'd look into the ADHD study at NIH. Does he have friends? Are they same age or younger? Some kids really struggle with the lack of structure in summer. See if you can dial back the corrections just to safety issues. I'd assume that there is something going on and that he can't help the other stuff. The Difficult Child book was really helpful to me in sorting out what and how to correct and what to see as temperment. I like things to be peaceful and cooperative and I really had to change my expectations until we could work with Dr. Horen. If you are always mad that is scary to him too and may make him more anxious and reactive. The ped suggested that I treat him as a much younger child and that helped. 1-2-3 Magic is good too, he is not doing this to upset you, just correct for safety, not screeching, and try to move on. Can so hear you on the vacation, have been there. But if you accept that for now this is how he is, how can you still have a pleasant functional family? Instead of trying to change his behavior so you can have that, how can you have it if he has ADHD or Tourette's or something? My kiddo has some tics so that is also being explored. Try to find something that each of you can do alone with the 6 year old to get some good quality time, even if it's going outside for walks or whatever. Hang in there! [/quote]
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