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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So your kid has ADHD and what do you do in lieu of “drugging him?” [/quote]

There's a diet that many people find very effective. (Search for "ADHD diet", it's called Feingold Diet.) It basically removes certain compounds that ADHD kids have been shown scientifically to react badly to. You need to be pretty strict about it though, even just a small bit of the wrong foods can cause a reaction.

In our case, we have our kids on this diet (spoiler: it's a TON of work) and their behavior is good but one of our kids is still a lot more active than other kids. He hasn't started school yet, but we've accepted that we will be homeschooling, because we can see that he just won't be able to sit there like the other kids. We've also accepted that we'll probably be focussing on athletics much more than academics, even though we're quite academically focussed ourselves. He's never going to be someone to sit there for hours and hours and work on detailed problems. But that's okay. It's not what we'd planned or expected for our kids, but we'll figure it out.

We also make sure he has plenty of time to really run around to exhaustion. We noticed that after he does this, he can actually sit and do a puzzle or stuff like that when there's no way he would be able to focus on that otherwise. So we make sure to prioritize this every day. And we packed the TV away and now have a climbing structure in the living room. Would I love to sit on a couch and watch TV? Yeah. But we don't have the space for both and this makes more sense for our family. It's really all about priorities.[/quote]

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