Shari
IsItFridayYet?
DevPed wants to start wee difficult child on Tenex to slow him a bit. She thinks perhaps slowing him down will help with impulsivity?
Anyone with experience?
I'm willing to try, but I'll admit I'm skeptical. We go through sometimes long periods of time where he's extremely hyper, but the impulsivity is much less, thus I tend to feel the impulsivity is caused by something else, not hyperactivity. (right now is not one of those times, either, by the way). We can deal with hyper, most of the time. He's usually most hyper after school, in the evening. I guess my hang up is that I'm not completely comfortable treating hyper with the hope that he loses impulsivity as a side effect... (make sense?)
Anyone with experience?
I'm willing to try, but I'll admit I'm skeptical. We go through sometimes long periods of time where he's extremely hyper, but the impulsivity is much less, thus I tend to feel the impulsivity is caused by something else, not hyperactivity. (right now is not one of those times, either, by the way). We can deal with hyper, most of the time. He's usually most hyper after school, in the evening. I guess my hang up is that I'm not completely comfortable treating hyper with the hope that he loses impulsivity as a side effect... (make sense?)