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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we were at the end of our rope with your 3 year old. biting, hitting, screaming, melt downs. Dev Ped suggested we might consider drugs at a "younger" age. We worked intensively on behavioral modification, diet, parenting, atmosphere--it was a full time job. We also waited for our child to mature. Now, at 4.5 drugs are not an issue, despite the clear ADHD diagnoses. Will they be in the future? Perhaps, though given the research showing that long term use of these drugs results in no improvement has given me pause. i would prefer to understand what is going on--there is clearly a brain chemistry issue with our kid (when child has a fever, is a completely, 100 percent different kid, like night/day, a reaction that is not uncommon for other kids with autism and adhd) but i'm not sure if messing with that brain chemistry through drugs is the right answer. Then again, my child is not suffering right now. I have known and seen kids who literally cannot function without the drugs. What to do?[/quote]

This child's only problem is his parents' inability to parent.

You need counseling and parenting classes, not a developmental pediatrician.

Poor baby. [/quote]

This is why I hate any discussion of medication on DCUM -- the ignorance of parents (who have never had to deal with these issues).

But this is a particularly odd one because is clearly an extraordinary parent.  Look at the lengths she went to to help her DC!  I would bet that 90% of parents here would be unable to follow such a program. The attempt to shame parents of kids who have been biologically dealt a more difficult hand just reflects poorly on the posters.  People who resort to this sort of thing appear to be deeply insecure about their own parenting skills and therefore have to assert their superiority and judge what their ignorance preclusde them from understanding.  But doing so in this case is particularly absurd.

Or maybe this is just a troll.[/quote]

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