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[quote=Anonymous]My DS is 4 years old, diagnosed with ADHD and communication delays.  He is an awesome, funny, loving smart kid.  However, he can be very challenging and we honestly don't know whether it is because he is 4, or because he has ADHD, or because he doesn't always "get" what we are telling him, or a combination.  And as such, we don't quite know what to do re: discipline.  This is a problem both at home and when we go places, but more troubling when we go somewhere..because we don't want him to get hurt. Because we don't want to lose him...and lastly because we don't want to have the "one bad kid" everywhere we go.

For instance, we took a short weekend trip as a family this past weekend.  He kept wanting to run away from us, even after we told him that he doesn't run away from mommy and daddy.  He wanted to go into a body of water that we were close to, even though we told him not to (we were afraid he was going to jump in).  We asked him to sit, he would not.  We asked him to walk, he wouldn't.  We go into a restaurant, he runs around the restaurant.  We go into a shopping center, he decided that it is time to play chase.  However (as is often the case), when we tried to talk to him about why he needs to stay with us, etc., he just doesn't seem to follow/care what we are telling him (we can't decide which it is).  We brought plenty of toys with us for him to play with (we let him pack a small suitcase full of toys for he and his sibling).  We went out of our way to find a place where we could find a place to run around after breakfast to get extra energy out.  So we weren't trying to make him act like a grown up or anything else developmentally inappropriate.

What can we do to make our family time together less challenging?  We dont want to always be yelling/telling him no/upset.  However that is the road that we are going down. 
Where do we start?[/quote]

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