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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get sick and tired of people blaming their child's inattentive adhd or add on things like getting up for school. What did our parents do or their parents' parents? add and adhd have been around for a long time, it just now has a 'name'.

To the OP, you have probably babied your child for way too long, so this is going to be hard to get her to be more responsible for herself. Getting up on time and getting to school on time is her job. Let her be late to school a few times and let her grades suffer. Better she learn this in 8th grade than 10th. 
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You're ignorance is astounding.  Although I don't have ADHD, I come from a family rife with it - and my DH has it as well as 2 of my kids.  I also grew up on a farm.  I can tell you what our parents and grandparents did.   
-We always went to bed at the same time.
-We got up at the same time every single days (cows have to be fed/milked)
-We had no screen time in the evening - no personal devices and only got 4 channels through the antennae
-We got a lot of 'heavy work' during the day - meaning we engaged in muscle building activities at least 2x/day and our activities were 'robust' (ever lift a bale of hay or a 10 gallon bucket of feed?)
-We got a lot of aerobic activity during the day.  Our driveway alone was a quarter mile long.  The furthest barn was also a quarter mile from the house. On weekends, if we wanted to anywhere, we had to walk or ride a bike.  The nearest neighbor was 1/2 mile away.
-Our lives were governed by routine because a lot of things had to be done every day, at the same time every day.

THAT is what our parents and grandparents did.  It's what I try do with my kids in a very different environment. The agricultural 'lifestyle' is much better suited for someone with ADHD than the suburban/urban lifestyle we have now.

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