So I started doing some Internet research on alternative methods to treat ADHD. Wow! Does every con man in America have a website? How can we tell the fake from the real? I'm an avid reader and want to find something with real practical applications? Please comment if you have read any good ones!
So far we've had good and bad days at school and today was pretty good. How can the kind of day a six year has make me so happy or unhappy? Well, our routine now includes a reward chart, a daily vitamin - I hear omega 3's are key, a big nutrious breakfast, and the morning list review. I read that ADHD kids need lists to help organize their thoughts and repetition to keep the idea in their brain plus as a former educator I want to hit all ways of learning- so we both say and write and look at his school list before school after school and before bed.
What are the big three you might ask?
1. Listen to your teacher. Do what she says. Nathan has a problem with authority which I blame on his father.
2. Stay in your seat. No wandering. No one to really blame the ants in the pants on.
3. No bothering other kids. For my son,this is him interupting the other kids working because he wants totalk to them and play. Okay anyone who knows me knows this one's my bad! Talking is my thing and apparently my son's thing too.
While he does find the list review annoying and he does not want to repeat it - I make him say it. I know when you say things out loud your brain will process it differently than hearing it alone. The same goes for writing it. We haven't written it yet but I might add it to the routine.
Whatever it takes to get his brain to process it and hold the information all day at school!
One last thing. We spend lots more time interacting with our only child. It has not only improved our sons moods but strengthened our relationship. He used to spend time watching tv or playing alone after school - now he does not!
I see why parents go the meds route it is certainly easier and gives a quicker result and takes a lot less effort. Don't get me wrong. Kids do sometimes need meds and there us nothing wrong with a parent doing what they feelbis right for their child. That is what we are trying to do now. I just feel our road is the harder less chosen path.
Well that's all for now. I'll post any books I read and my thoughts I them. Later! u
So far we've had good and bad days at school and today was pretty good. How can the kind of day a six year has make me so happy or unhappy? Well, our routine now includes a reward chart, a daily vitamin - I hear omega 3's are key, a big nutrious breakfast, and the morning list review. I read that ADHD kids need lists to help organize their thoughts and repetition to keep the idea in their brain plus as a former educator I want to hit all ways of learning- so we both say and write and look at his school list before school after school and before bed.
What are the big three you might ask?
1. Listen to your teacher. Do what she says. Nathan has a problem with authority which I blame on his father.
2. Stay in your seat. No wandering. No one to really blame the ants in the pants on.
3. No bothering other kids. For my son,this is him interupting the other kids working because he wants totalk to them and play. Okay anyone who knows me knows this one's my bad! Talking is my thing and apparently my son's thing too.
While he does find the list review annoying and he does not want to repeat it - I make him say it. I know when you say things out loud your brain will process it differently than hearing it alone. The same goes for writing it. We haven't written it yet but I might add it to the routine.
Whatever it takes to get his brain to process it and hold the information all day at school!
One last thing. We spend lots more time interacting with our only child. It has not only improved our sons moods but strengthened our relationship. He used to spend time watching tv or playing alone after school - now he does not!
I see why parents go the meds route it is certainly easier and gives a quicker result and takes a lot less effort. Don't get me wrong. Kids do sometimes need meds and there us nothing wrong with a parent doing what they feelbis right for their child. That is what we are trying to do now. I just feel our road is the harder less chosen path.
Well that's all for now. I'll post any books I read and my thoughts I them. Later! u
