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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm. I agree with PP, but still think ADHD kids can be sneaky.  My kid steals his sisters candy because he has no impulse control, but he hides the wrapper under his rug because he is sneaky.  When he was younger, he wasn't sneaky about stuff but now he is.  It's the coverup that bothers me more than the crime, from a parenting perspective.  (His sister is bothered more by the crime, of course.)[/quote]

Of course kids with ADHD can be sneaky as can NT kids.  A child waking up and watching tv or on the computer for hours on end during the middle of the night isn't trying to be sneaky.  They have anxiety that doesn't allow them to fall back to sleep.

As an adult if you were wide awake in the middle of the night, you'd probably turn to TV or the internet to entertain yourself.  A child with regulatory issues isn't going to notice that 2-3+ hours have elapsed.  They just don't feel sleepy.  They need to learn that if they awake during the night, they need to try other things to get themselves back to sleep.  It's a learning process.[/quote]

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