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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again - meant to say that my son is on medication. I wonder if the dosage is just not high enough anymore? We had him on Focalin XR 15 mg for a few months, but had to scale back to 10 mg because it was making him very anxious and a bit lethargic. We've always thought that what he really needs is a dose of 12.5 mg because while the 15 is too much, I think the 10 is not quite enough to make up for all of the impulse control. Sorry, I should have included this before.[/quote]

I think this is a routine/checklist issue, not a medication one.  I don't think you can medicate common sense into kids.  And I say that as a parent of an ADD child.  The ADD means that my kid is just not aware of some of the kinds of common sense social rules things that other kids are.  If you are the parent of an ADD kid, you likely already have some kind of morning routine/checklist to ensure that your kid walks out the door properly prepared to the school day.  (Homework? Check. Lunch Box? check.  Key?  check., etc.)  My child packs his bag, but I make sure that all the things he said "check" to are really in there and nothing else is.  Your routine needs an additional step -- bringing anything not on the list to school today?  Yes?  I need to see it.

Eventually, after going thru the checklist many many times, it will sink in with the ADD child that very few items not on the list actually make it out the door.  And, it will take even longer to sink in which kinds of non-listed items are likely to pass muster and go to school and which not.

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