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When do they take medications on their own?
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<blockquote data-quote="house of cards" data-source="post: 235678" data-attributes="member: 2005"><p>I'm sure it varies a great deal depending on the child. Major takes medications in the morning and at night. I will ask him if he has taken the morning medications and compliment him for doing it himself or use it as a reminder if he answered no. He has been taking this task over more and more since being around 10, I'd say he has done it 4 out of 7 days. For some reason night time I am usually the one to bring it up first and I am reminding him to take them (could it be that I am more interested in the day coming to an end then he is??). Anyway it just seems to be a gradual adjustment. And I am fortunate that he doesn't mind taking the medications so I am not concerned with him cheating.</p><p></p><p>I think I handled it similarly with my now adult son with ADHD and he was taking them on his own completely by high school and telling me when he was running low, although he also went through a period when he felt he didn't need them so I allowed him to stop. After 1 month he was on the verge of being kicked out of the advanced classes and agreed to stay on them...until college, but by then it wasn't my decision and he did do Ok.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="house of cards, post: 235678, member: 2005"] I'm sure it varies a great deal depending on the child. Major takes medications in the morning and at night. I will ask him if he has taken the morning medications and compliment him for doing it himself or use it as a reminder if he answered no. He has been taking this task over more and more since being around 10, I'd say he has done it 4 out of 7 days. For some reason night time I am usually the one to bring it up first and I am reminding him to take them (could it be that I am more interested in the day coming to an end then he is??). Anyway it just seems to be a gradual adjustment. And I am fortunate that he doesn't mind taking the medications so I am not concerned with him cheating. I think I handled it similarly with my now adult son with ADHD and he was taking them on his own completely by high school and telling me when he was running low, although he also went through a period when he felt he didn't need them so I allowed him to stop. After 1 month he was on the verge of being kicked out of the advanced classes and agreed to stay on them...until college, but by then it wasn't my decision and he did do Ok. [/QUOTE]
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