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<blockquote data-quote="Janna" data-source="post: 19517" data-attributes="member: 2737"><p>Your difficult child sounds like my easy child in alot of ways. I was the one mentioning this week that he was tearing up pieces of paper in class.</p><p></p><p>I love Abilify, difficult child 1 (Dylan) is on it. You're right, helps him sleep, calms him down, it's great LOL! My saviour :smile:</p><p></p><p>Ok, ADHD. Yes, my easy child is ADHD, Combined Type. He does alot of things your difficult child seems to do. He is careless. He is goofy. He's the class clown, although the authority figures don't find him funny (but the kids do, which is part of the problem). He's always trying to make jokes, mimic someone (usually a teacher, again, maybe why she finds no humor in him), or just be well, impulsivly out of control.</p><p></p><p>I wish he could learn when it's okay to be a goofball and try to amuse someone and when it's not. He can't understand when it's appropriate. With my easy child, alot (and I say the majority) of his problems/goofiness are attention seeking. It's evident. He'll start out being goofy around someone, and they'll laugh at him, and he gets louder. Dumber. Goofier. And then before you know it, he's totally out of control, and I have to grab him. I can see him being exactly this way at school. Yeah, kinda like a drunk LOL. Not a very good term to use to describe, but you're right.</p><p></p><p>The tearing papers, I do not think MY child has an anxiety problem, but I suppose some kids could. I think alot of things get blamed on anxiety, too much in my opinion, that aren't anxiety. easy child doesn't tear papers to make designs (how creative of your difficult child!) and such, I think he just finds a piece laying around, and plays with it as the teacher is doing her thing. I think he's more doing it because he doesn't want to pay attention to what she's teaching (which is a huge problem, too!). Playing with pencils, tapping feet, talking to himself, all these things, I hear about on a daily basis. It's frustrating.</p><p></p><p>He will not go on an antipsychotic (Abilify, Risperdal, etc), but we are trialing stimulants (I will not put him on an antipsychotic because he has heart problems and I just don't want to, not because of any other reason). He started out at 18 mg. of Concerta, the lowest dose, and WOW, in hours, what a difference. Calmed him down, he was being so good, better behaviors, etc. He was on this for a couple of weeks, and the teacher (it's always the teacher) started whining again. "Okay day, but....." always a but. in my humble opinion, I think part of the problem is the teacher (but we can save that for another day). So, we increased him to 27 mg. Concerta. Well, then he was zombified. His eyes were glassy. The teacher loved it, because he was comatose. Well, lovely, but I'm not having my kid like that!</p><p></p><p>We changed to Adderall, only 5 mg, baby dose, saw nothing. I gave him 10 mg. on a Sat to see if it'd do anything, nothing really. However, he's starting to get mouthy. Little aggressive. This is why my easy child is a easy child and not a difficult child. Yeah, he's hyper, and impulsive and loud, but he's not bad. Well, the Adderall, I just wasn't liking it.</p><p></p><p>So, now he's back on the 18 mg. Concerta. I like it. The babysitter likes it. His therapist thinks he's great, she sees no ADHD signs in him in the hour he's with her. Yeah, the teacher complains, but you know what? I don't give a rats behind. She only has to deal with it another 5 months and he's out of there.</p><p></p><p>My easy child tears papers and plays with pencils and things like that, I believe, because he has a hard time with focus and attention. I don't think I need to try to pick apart every piece of his brain to find more reasons why. Anxiety, depression, etc etc, maybe he just has a hard time with focus? Maybe that's what is wrong with your difficult child? </p><p></p><p>I was saying that I thought maybe my easy child needs to be TAUGHT how to pay attention and focus, because he never really has. In conjunction with the medications, that is. Maybe he'll out grow it? I know alot of parents here say their kids do. We can only hope!</p><p></p><p>Janna</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janna, post: 19517, member: 2737"] Your difficult child sounds like my easy child in alot of ways. I was the one mentioning this week that he was tearing up pieces of paper in class. I love Abilify, difficult child 1 (Dylan) is on it. You're right, helps him sleep, calms him down, it's great LOL! My saviour [img]:smile:[/img] Ok, ADHD. Yes, my easy child is ADHD, Combined Type. He does alot of things your difficult child seems to do. He is careless. He is goofy. He's the class clown, although the authority figures don't find him funny (but the kids do, which is part of the problem). He's always trying to make jokes, mimic someone (usually a teacher, again, maybe why she finds no humor in him), or just be well, impulsivly out of control. I wish he could learn when it's okay to be a goofball and try to amuse someone and when it's not. He can't understand when it's appropriate. With my easy child, alot (and I say the majority) of his problems/goofiness are attention seeking. It's evident. He'll start out being goofy around someone, and they'll laugh at him, and he gets louder. Dumber. Goofier. And then before you know it, he's totally out of control, and I have to grab him. I can see him being exactly this way at school. Yeah, kinda like a drunk LOL. Not a very good term to use to describe, but you're right. The tearing papers, I do not think MY child has an anxiety problem, but I suppose some kids could. I think alot of things get blamed on anxiety, too much in my opinion, that aren't anxiety. easy child doesn't tear papers to make designs (how creative of your difficult child!) and such, I think he just finds a piece laying around, and plays with it as the teacher is doing her thing. I think he's more doing it because he doesn't want to pay attention to what she's teaching (which is a huge problem, too!). Playing with pencils, tapping feet, talking to himself, all these things, I hear about on a daily basis. It's frustrating. He will not go on an antipsychotic (Abilify, Risperdal, etc), but we are trialing stimulants (I will not put him on an antipsychotic because he has heart problems and I just don't want to, not because of any other reason). He started out at 18 mg. of Concerta, the lowest dose, and WOW, in hours, what a difference. Calmed him down, he was being so good, better behaviors, etc. He was on this for a couple of weeks, and the teacher (it's always the teacher) started whining again. "Okay day, but....." always a but. in my humble opinion, I think part of the problem is the teacher (but we can save that for another day). So, we increased him to 27 mg. Concerta. Well, then he was zombified. His eyes were glassy. The teacher loved it, because he was comatose. Well, lovely, but I'm not having my kid like that! We changed to Adderall, only 5 mg, baby dose, saw nothing. I gave him 10 mg. on a Sat to see if it'd do anything, nothing really. However, he's starting to get mouthy. Little aggressive. This is why my easy child is a easy child and not a difficult child. Yeah, he's hyper, and impulsive and loud, but he's not bad. Well, the Adderall, I just wasn't liking it. So, now he's back on the 18 mg. Concerta. I like it. The babysitter likes it. His therapist thinks he's great, she sees no ADHD signs in him in the hour he's with her. Yeah, the teacher complains, but you know what? I don't give a rats behind. She only has to deal with it another 5 months and he's out of there. My easy child tears papers and plays with pencils and things like that, I believe, because he has a hard time with focus and attention. I don't think I need to try to pick apart every piece of his brain to find more reasons why. Anxiety, depression, etc etc, maybe he just has a hard time with focus? Maybe that's what is wrong with your difficult child? I was saying that I thought maybe my easy child needs to be TAUGHT how to pay attention and focus, because he never really has. In conjunction with the medications, that is. Maybe he'll out grow it? I know alot of parents here say their kids do. We can only hope! Janna [/QUOTE]
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