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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 640134" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Not all people who come here have children who are violent and running away from home at five. Some are just difficult enough to make home life very difficult. There could be many reasons for it...ADHD, high functioning autism, a childhood mood disorder, Learning Disability (LD) issues...that's why I suggested a neuropsychologist. Behavioral therapy alone is usually not helpful to children whose parents make it to this site and then it ends up being wasted money. Therapists can not diagnose childhood disorders. Pediatricians don't know much about neurological glitches and psychiatric issues either. It simply is not their specialty. Our pediatrician would not even guess on what was wrong with my son. He referred us out. He was also a very skilled pediatrician for illnesses, but that was his training...strep throat and such.</p><p></p><p>The normal therapist's go-to behavioral therapy, such as charts and 1-2-3 magic and time outs don't tend to work with most of our children because they are not just being defiant. There is more to it. There is a reason they are defiant that is co-existing alongside t he ODD and causing it. Without treatment of that disorder, whatever it is, the child can not comply either due to impulsiveness, "differently-wired" thinking or intense inner rage that trumps the discipline and gets the child angrier. I think it is good advice to get early treatment. The earlier, the better the later prognosis. You do not want to start messing with this when he is a teen. By then, he could have taken it up ten notches from what it is now. If it is bad enough to be causing strife in your marriage, you and your husband should be good to yourselves and your son and see if he can be diagnosed and then helped so that peace can come to all of you. Makes no sense in my opinion to live in chaos when there is help <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 640134, member: 1550"] Not all people who come here have children who are violent and running away from home at five. Some are just difficult enough to make home life very difficult. There could be many reasons for it...ADHD, high functioning autism, a childhood mood disorder, Learning Disability (LD) issues...that's why I suggested a neuropsychologist. Behavioral therapy alone is usually not helpful to children whose parents make it to this site and then it ends up being wasted money. Therapists can not diagnose childhood disorders. Pediatricians don't know much about neurological glitches and psychiatric issues either. It simply is not their specialty. Our pediatrician would not even guess on what was wrong with my son. He referred us out. He was also a very skilled pediatrician for illnesses, but that was his training...strep throat and such. The normal therapist's go-to behavioral therapy, such as charts and 1-2-3 magic and time outs don't tend to work with most of our children because they are not just being defiant. There is more to it. There is a reason they are defiant that is co-existing alongside t he ODD and causing it. Without treatment of that disorder, whatever it is, the child can not comply either due to impulsiveness, "differently-wired" thinking or intense inner rage that trumps the discipline and gets the child angrier. I think it is good advice to get early treatment. The earlier, the better the later prognosis. You do not want to start messing with this when he is a teen. By then, he could have taken it up ten notches from what it is now. If it is bad enough to be causing strife in your marriage, you and your husband should be good to yourselves and your son and see if he can be diagnosed and then helped so that peace can come to all of you. Makes no sense in my opinion to live in chaos when there is help ;) Take care. [/QUOTE]
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