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<blockquote data-quote="Mominator" data-source="post: 647572" data-attributes="member: 18745"><p>Thank you Second Time. I totally agree that right now the best place for the boys is in a treatment facility. They are in a good program and it seems to be working. </p><p></p><p>My daughter has been in therapy for nearly 11 months. I find it absolutely astonishing (in a not so good way) how kids with ODD and ADHD can be so impulsive, but maintain a long term, high level of quiet stand-off-ishness. Every week, it takes half the session for the therapist to get her to talk. </p><p></p><p>I know there is no time line to recovery, but I'm always conscious that to my middle aged self, a year of time is like a drop of water in a bucket. It doesn't make much difference. But to little kids, every couple months can be like the after effects of an earthquake. Everything can be changed. They can have huge growth spurts, great leaps in maturity, or even start to forget bad things that have happened to them. The changes can be even more dramatic with children such as ours. My kids have trouble with working memory and to varying degrees, reactive attachment disorders. Both boys have already forgotten what our house looks like. My youngest son is stalled in treatment because he has to answer very specific questions about his past behaviors, and he can't remember all the details anymore. As for my daughter, well, she's youngest, memory fades faster for the younger one. Not that that is a bad thing, but we would like her to get therapy for the actual events.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mominator, post: 647572, member: 18745"] Thank you Second Time. I totally agree that right now the best place for the boys is in a treatment facility. They are in a good program and it seems to be working. My daughter has been in therapy for nearly 11 months. I find it absolutely astonishing (in a not so good way) how kids with ODD and ADHD can be so impulsive, but maintain a long term, high level of quiet stand-off-ishness. Every week, it takes half the session for the therapist to get her to talk. I know there is no time line to recovery, but I'm always conscious that to my middle aged self, a year of time is like a drop of water in a bucket. It doesn't make much difference. But to little kids, every couple months can be like the after effects of an earthquake. Everything can be changed. They can have huge growth spurts, great leaps in maturity, or even start to forget bad things that have happened to them. The changes can be even more dramatic with children such as ours. My kids have trouble with working memory and to varying degrees, reactive attachment disorders. Both boys have already forgotten what our house looks like. My youngest son is stalled in treatment because he has to answer very specific questions about his past behaviors, and he can't remember all the details anymore. As for my daughter, well, she's youngest, memory fades faster for the younger one. Not that that is a bad thing, but we would like her to get therapy for the actual events. [/QUOTE]
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