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[quote=Anonymous]We are in a situation with a recent dx from a neuropsych, trying to figure out our next steps. Our child somehow is ok at school. She has a great teacher. She seems to have trouble with social skills, but she isn’t having trouble focusing in the classroom.

However, at home… things are a little rough. She is stuck on the idea that we always think things are wrong with her. She obsessively, angrily tracks how life is unfair - especially when we ask her to go to bed. She hasn’t always been like this, exactly. She feels a little broken, like she needs a reset. I can break through it by not focusing on the garbage coming out of her mouth (she hates me?), staying super calm, using a tiny bit of humor and being excessively flexible… in the end, she left the living room couch, she decided to change into pjs, floss and go to the bathroom last night… but she did not brush her teeth. I told her that I make recommendations, but she is responsible for this self care in the end. I know she will brush in the morning because she is actually pretty mature and responsible underneath this weird anger thing that is happening regularly now. She is 8 and a half. Maybe she is angry about the testing. I need to talk to her about this differently (and ask her more questions when she isn’t full of rage). She says we hate her and we are trying to change her too much. We have not told her the diagnosis.

I’ve been explaining to my husband that I don’t think a stimulant is going to fix any of this. He would love to give her some kind of medication to make this better. It is true that this way of parenting her feels like a lot… but it has always felt very different from our slightly older kid. We do work with a parenting coach, but I think we need some new strategies with this new diagnosis. Maybe she just needs a good 1:1 therapist? We still have not tried that. The CAAT unstuck group seems like another option.

Sorry that I wrote so much![/quote]

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