I need help for my Son Justin who has ADD
My son has ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and I need to know some australia websites please if anybody knows of any please help me.
He is 13 years old and still suck on a dummy and I hate seeing it can someone help me out please.
Answer:I'm ADHD and I sucked my thumb till I was 13. It's not going to do any lasting damgae emotionally as long as ADHD or ADD is the only issue. However make sure to check with your dentist often.
The good news is that your child is ADHD. The bad news is that your child is ADHD. ADHD children learn quickly, picking up and retaining information with amazing speed, and having an ability to multitask that is nothing short of amazing. ADHD children for this reason become bored and distracted easily. In the classroom they learn more quickly than other children and then become bored, being full of energy they tend to distract other children as they seek a way to occupy themselves. The best way to deal with this is a "gifted" program. I suffered ADHD myself as a child, and my school had an amazing program I think all schools should have. A seperate class just for ADHD! I would stay in normal classes with my grade until I got ahead of people, then I would go to Gifted once I had finished my homework and classwork in a sufficient manner (95% was the approved level). Once in Gifted I could study literature, read, run wild, or begin advancing past what my grade level offered. One teacher with a volunteer aide per five children allows a good level of control, and children can get reinforcement in the places they have trouble (though if they are below approved level they stay in class and redo their work till it is good enough), and also be allowed to advance in the areas they excell. Most schools would be willing to provide a single teacher is they had sufficent volunteer parents/aides. Also remember that Caffine, Chocolate, and artificial colors/flavors (red40 especially) can cause ADHD to be much worse. It is a genetic disorder that is becomeing more and more magnified as we have more and more artificial flavorings and colorings in our foods. Also take into account that ADHD are more likely to suffer depression as a result of their unique brain fuctions being misunderstood, and mishandled. ADHD is the human result of a society that now demands that people learn more quickly, retain information faster, and multitask in more and more facets of our lives. ADHD can be a curse if not understood and a blessing if properly handled. As for discipline, corpral punishment combined with groundings are best, though keep grounding severe and short. Make them lose everything, but only for a short while (a few hours to a few days). Being ADHD is having a short attention span, and within a few hours to a few days they will stop connecting the punishment with the issue. Though if they try and parents work with them, they can learn to expand their attention span. A more organic diet, a regular excersize regimine, and proper attention and discipline, can make ADHD a boone instead of a bane. (do not mistake my comment to mean that ADHD medications are either unnessessary or improper, I was on them as a child and they greatly helped me, they can however be kept to a minimum if the situation is better understood and handled)
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Im not sure i know any websites have u tried ask jeeves or yahoo or google
Pleae get this book. It is a short read and it will give you the tools to work with your child. http://www.parentmagic.com/parentingsolu...
Don't worry about a web site--call your doctor or look in the yellow pages they have doctors that work in that field they do have medication for this i have a nephew who has add and the doctors are helping