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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 16405" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>As husband and I are/were in a similar situation with our difficult child as you are with the tweedles I don't know how much I can answer. We got him at the age of 9 but had heard some stories from his life before. In addition to various foster homes, difficult child had also lived on and off with an aunt and unlcle. I don't really know anything about his development as an infant other than he was premature. By how much though, I don't know. He was exposed to at least marijuana in the womb and it's possible there were other "chemicals" mixed in there also. I do know that he wasn't born drug exposed because bio mom had been hospitalized for a week or two prior to his birth. From what we can gather though, difficult child was a handful from the time he could walk. Apparently at one point, he had gotten ahold of over a thousand dollars from the uncle's wallet, given it to other kids and also cut the pictures off of the bills. He was sent home on the first day of kindergarten for his behavior and had also been diagnosis'd BiPolar (BP) a few years before we got him but it was never kept up on and we were never told about it. (That would go a long way to explaining why he had repeated disrupted placements due to his behavior :hammer: ) When he first came to us, we were asked to keep his current therapist for a bit because of the adjustment period. Not a problem, it made sense to us but the man was useless. Even as inexperienced parents (especially for a difficult child) his "solutions" didn't come across as effective for the behaviors we were seeing. (1-2-3 Magic for rages that required me holding him down? Don't think so) Plus as we were first time parents he was very condescending to us and did everything but pat me on the head and say "Good girl". Granted, we WERE new parents (and completely unaware of what we had on our hands) but we weren't idiots either. My favorite example of this was when we had issues with difficult child doing bank shots off of the inside of the toilet lid when he urinated or going all over the seat. Talking to him a couple of times didn't work so I started making him clean the entire toilet everytime he did it. Common sense right? Well by the docs tone you would have thought I was a 4 year old who just figured out world peace. "That's a really good idea!" Well Duuuuuuhhhhhhh. difficult child or not, pee all over the toilet....you're cleaning it up.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow....got off track there. I would say with ours there were signs/symptoms/issues showing up at an early age. But as with your tweedles, who knows if it was situational, diagnosis related or a combination.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 16405, member: 2459"] As husband and I are/were in a similar situation with our difficult child as you are with the tweedles I don't know how much I can answer. We got him at the age of 9 but had heard some stories from his life before. In addition to various foster homes, difficult child had also lived on and off with an aunt and unlcle. I don't really know anything about his development as an infant other than he was premature. By how much though, I don't know. He was exposed to at least marijuana in the womb and it's possible there were other "chemicals" mixed in there also. I do know that he wasn't born drug exposed because bio mom had been hospitalized for a week or two prior to his birth. From what we can gather though, difficult child was a handful from the time he could walk. Apparently at one point, he had gotten ahold of over a thousand dollars from the uncle's wallet, given it to other kids and also cut the pictures off of the bills. He was sent home on the first day of kindergarten for his behavior and had also been diagnosis'd BiPolar (BP) a few years before we got him but it was never kept up on and we were never told about it. (That would go a long way to explaining why he had repeated disrupted placements due to his behavior [img]:hammer:[/img] ) When he first came to us, we were asked to keep his current therapist for a bit because of the adjustment period. Not a problem, it made sense to us but the man was useless. Even as inexperienced parents (especially for a difficult child) his "solutions" didn't come across as effective for the behaviors we were seeing. (1-2-3 Magic for rages that required me holding him down? Don't think so) Plus as we were first time parents he was very condescending to us and did everything but pat me on the head and say "Good girl". Granted, we WERE new parents (and completely unaware of what we had on our hands) but we weren't idiots either. My favorite example of this was when we had issues with difficult child doing bank shots off of the inside of the toilet lid when he urinated or going all over the seat. Talking to him a couple of times didn't work so I started making him clean the entire toilet everytime he did it. Common sense right? Well by the docs tone you would have thought I was a 4 year old who just figured out world peace. "That's a really good idea!" Well Duuuuuuhhhhhhh. difficult child or not, pee all over the toilet....you're cleaning it up. Anyhow....got off track there. I would say with ours there were signs/symptoms/issues showing up at an early age. But as with your tweedles, who knows if it was situational, diagnosis related or a combination. [/QUOTE]
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