How do you handle your adhd child?

What discipline techneques work? How do you deal with temper tantrums, endless energy, constant need to be doing something unless glued to the tv?

It's important to realise that ADHD is a medical condition and no amount of discipline or behavior management can control it. It has a physical cause and needs physical treatment.

For starters medication, this is the most effective and safe way to handle the condition. Secondly diet is very important. The wrong foods like those with a lot of colors, flavors and preservativesmake it worse. They need high protien and low carb diets with frequent small snacks to control the metabolism of the brain.

Exersize is essential too, ADHD kids need at least 30 minutes of high energy exerrsize every day to keep their brains in check. Its worth signing up for some sort of sports classes like swimming, soccer, gymnastics, martial arts and so on. For those days they dont have sport things like a bike ride will help.

As far as discipline ADHD kids need very immediate and very consistent discipline.

Some tips.

# Never ignore bad behavior. With an ADHD child it will just get worse and worse and worse until it cant be ignored at all and is totally out of control. Instead deal with it quickly while its sstill managebale.

# Use lots of praise and encouragement. For ADHD kids its easy to earn attention for bad behavior and hard to earn it for good behavior. If you make it easier to eran for good behavior you will se a lot more good behavior.

# The less you say the more they hear. ADHD kids switch off completly from long lectures. generally if you say a lot they will forget it all. If you say it in a few words they will remember it all. Try to keep your praise and reprimands down to 1 sentence.

# As far as discipline the best consequence is time out. It is immediate and short term, it is portable and can be taken anywhere and ADHD kids hate to be still and bored so it works well. Also it doees not give them extra attention.

# Don't use lectures, yelling, explaining, reasoning or spanking to discipline an ADHD child. They all feed them with attention so hype them up more and make it worse.

# Don't use long term consequences like grounding, removing privledges or missing out on things as punishment because ADHD kids wont connect it with what they have done and wont learn from their mistakes. Even if they seem to understand why they are being punished the next time they go to do the same wrong thing again they wont make the connection because it happened to far away.

# Avoid giving too many warnings. ADHD kids need firm boundaries or tthey will just keep testing and testing you until you give in. Correct their behavior once, if they dont fix it, give 1 warning as to waht will happen if they keep misbehaving and if they keep going apply consequences immediatly. If you give more than one warning you aree teaching them they dont have to listen to you the first time.

# Never reason with an ADHD child, they will turn your reasoned comments into all out arguements.

I have a child with adhd and bi-polar! The way I deal with it is treat them normal don't give them any excuse for there behaviour. No means no but you may have to reserve a special treat for good behaviour! Don't let it get to you they are still kids and your the parent! One other thing would be a one on one sports (wrestling, track and field etc...) That way they can vent there frustration out in a positive manner!

The foremost thing is proper treatment, therapy. Secondly, you have to tackle this problem periodically, and analyze which technique or actions best suites and discipline him. Encourage him to other activities besides his own interest and give him some reward in return. If he does not seem to be interested in most of the stuff that can behave and educate him well, then tell him that his actions are not good for him either...Combining some of the things along with treatment you can get better result..
Best Wishes.
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It is a neverending battle, dealing with an ADHD child. I am constantly looking for new ideas to help my 13 year old son.

I find that some things work for a while and then they seem to lose their effectiveness.

I have a program called the total Transformation program, and in it this guy talks about the fact that the world is very unforgiving when our kids grow into adults so we should make them be as responsible as we can while they are growing up.

He says that the world won't let your kid away with being different and they will still pay the price of beign different..

Right now my son is bombing out at school because he won't concentrate. I try lots of things but he still has trouble. He would rather be kicking a ball then doing school work.

I wish you luck.

First off, I think you need to look at yourself as a source of the problem before you blame your child. Perhaps his disorder is a result of poor genetic material?

If not, I reccomend you abuse him mentally/ physically, and verbally, by constantly reminding him that he's different, and will never be like anybody else while forcefully pushing him into a wall.

Good luck!
-Ken

patience and love, perhaps a trampoline, baseball, swimming, there are educational TV programs. He doesn't understand discipline, try to teach him one thing at a time. He really wants to please. He is funny and takes advantage of it.

I don't have any experience living with adhd children, but I did read a nice short article some days ago about adhd parenting. http://www.parenting-ideas.info/adhd-par... I hope that article can help to answer your questions.

Spanking hard or a few good slaps on the bottom work very good and cure ADHD. The slaps on the bottom should be felt very well and your angry face seen. That's how you won't even have to do it more than 2 times.

I am an ADHD kid. I take a pill that helps me focuse and I am normally a better child. The only thing is if I am very tired after I take the pill I get very very quiet. But maybe he should take it