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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, it's a major problem with us for my 6-year old ADHD impulsive type.  Here's the scenario --- sibling gets candy in a gift bag at a party.  Sibling puts bag down in kitchen and walks away.  ADHD kid steals sibling's candy, eats it all in secret.  When asked, ADHD kid says no, didn't do it.  Candy wrappers found in bedroom, chocolate in kid's teeth.

The PP that said it's because the parents are overly restrictive don't really get impulse control issues, I think.  Our kid has sweets every day.  He will still take more candy, if he sees it because, hey -- who doesn't want more candy?  Unless I were to buy several Costco size vats and just let him eat candy until he throws up, he just does not have the impulse control to NOT eat the candy.

The candy is just one example.  He broke something the other day.  I went to go get something to clean it up, and he hid the evidence while I was out of the room (making it 10x harder to clean up).  Did it make any sense? No.  He didn't want to see the evidence of what he broke, so he swept it under the rug (pretty much literally).  Then when I asked him if I did something to the mess, he said no.  (Dumb question -- I immediately then corrected to "Just tell me what you did with it.  I just want to clean it up.")  Everyone might get that impulse (just make it go away so I can forget I broke it!) but most of us ignore it.  When confronted with having done something dumb, most of us have a fleeting impulse to say "No, I didn't do that."  Etc.  
It's really, really difficult.  If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be thrilled to hear them.  (And, yes, he's medicated.)[/quote]

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