Thursday 29 November 2018

When Your Kid is the Naughty One -- elementary school


My son has ADHD. We are desperately awaiting his psychologist's appointment to get on medication. As of now, he has exactly 0 impulse control.He is wickedly smart, incredibly funny, silly, loving, sweet, creative...just a great kid. But he is incredibly difficult--it's hard to get him to follow instructions promptly, he doesn't sit at a desk and do work for long periods of time, and he is very emotional.He can go from 0 to 60, and unfortunately in school this means that he has been in trouble for pushing, grabbing, and even hitting. I just got a call from the office for the FOURTH time this year.The issue is, my kid is being bullied by a particular classmate. We have done everything in our power to deal with the situation. We have met with the teacher twice. We met with the principal. We've talk to our son's behavior therapist about it. We've set up reward charts, home communication book for school, we've role played, we've coached, we've talked. It's a very small school and to avoid this boy completely he would have to play by himself at break time or ask one boy from his class to play with him instead of the group game.Obviously, this has been to little avail. Last month there was a disagreement during tag, resulting in my son being hit and chased across the playground by this boy and another child. They chased him into a classroom and ganged up on him, hitting him with pillows before an adult found them in the classroom alone. So you see, this is clearly and back-and-forth, ongoing issue with these boys. I was not notified of the incident nor of the consequences involved per the school's confidentiality policy.​I just don't know what to do anymore. Short of babysitting him at school how can I prevent my son from losing his cool and hitting again? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2QpBFpt

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