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How do u handle "It's not FAIR"??
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<blockquote data-quote="Running_for_the_shelter" data-source="post: 423219" data-attributes="member: 2960"><p>Hey, P-nut! Your kid already knows she has a "condition", but since she doesn't know what else to call it, she calls it "being dumb" and talks about hating herself for being different. I don't bother telling my difficult child his official diagnosis is "mood disorder - not otherwise specified because they don't have a good name for people like you" -- he wouldn't get that at all. I do tell him that everyone develops at different rates and everyone has a different brain chemistry. He didn't have the best luck with what he got. I do have the advantage of being just like him, so he has proof positive that he can grow up and be (more or less) OK. When he's a teen, we'll have a few other talks about how to best succeed. But most difficult children know (on some level) that they are not like most other kids -- you may as well tell them the truth and let them know you're trying to give them some tools for dealing with it. The actual diagnosis -- well, labels can change with time so I wouldn't want my difficult child to really identify with it. I'll tell him when he asks.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child wet the bed until he was about 10. Every now and then, we still have an accident, but it's a whole lot better. I didn't bother medicating him for this particular condition, just tried to convince him it was best to tell us if there was a problem in the night. I had rather wondered if he would be going from Pull-ups into Depends at some point. Good luck -- the endless laundry gets tiring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running_for_the_shelter, post: 423219, member: 2960"] Hey, P-nut! Your kid already knows she has a "condition", but since she doesn't know what else to call it, she calls it "being dumb" and talks about hating herself for being different. I don't bother telling my difficult child his official diagnosis is "mood disorder - not otherwise specified because they don't have a good name for people like you" -- he wouldn't get that at all. I do tell him that everyone develops at different rates and everyone has a different brain chemistry. He didn't have the best luck with what he got. I do have the advantage of being just like him, so he has proof positive that he can grow up and be (more or less) OK. When he's a teen, we'll have a few other talks about how to best succeed. But most difficult children know (on some level) that they are not like most other kids -- you may as well tell them the truth and let them know you're trying to give them some tools for dealing with it. The actual diagnosis -- well, labels can change with time so I wouldn't want my difficult child to really identify with it. I'll tell him when he asks. My difficult child wet the bed until he was about 10. Every now and then, we still have an accident, but it's a whole lot better. I didn't bother medicating him for this particular condition, just tried to convince him it was best to tell us if there was a problem in the night. I had rather wondered if he would be going from Pull-ups into Depends at some point. Good luck -- the endless laundry gets tiring. [/QUOTE]
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