Hyperactive meds are a controversial issue and have generated a lot of heated debate. In this article I want to outline three factors which can help you, as a parent, to decide whether these hyperactive medications are indeed the right solution for your child's ADHD or whether you should seek an alternative.Here is the first factor to help you decide. What exactly do these hyperactive meds do? They are psychostimulants and they are...more
Despite what the medical community will tell you, there are better and safer options to psychostimulants for treating ADHD. All you have to do is to go to the FDA website and look at what they are worried about. There are all sorts of side effects and health risks and the disadvantages of medicine for hyperactive children are there for all the world to see!While these medications certainly seem to work on calming hyperactive...more
Sometimes with severe ADHD, neither medication nor any therapeutic treatment seems to work. I know parents who have tried everything and then just stopped all treatment. They just gave up but life became unbearable for them. They had tried all the treatments for a period of three years. With or without treatment,the child with severe ADHD was totally unmanageable in any setting, yelled rather than talked and oscillated from being aggressive, defiant to being downright violent.I know of one child who was diagnosed at the very early age of three. This is an interesting aspect of ADHD diagnosis because the DSM forthcoming new edition is going to reset the age for diagnosis at ideally between the ages of 7 and 12. Now that is a big difference and it has been decided because there have been too many early diagnoses and also ignorance that ADHD can be discovered as late as twelve years of age.But let us return to the question of severe ADHD because many parents despair of ever getting it right and they worry that their ADHD child, if not treated properly, will grow up and be at risk of drug addiction, drinking and felonies. Now, of course, is the time to act.As regards...more
'Does my child have ADHD' is a question worried parents often ask. When they observe some fairly abnormal behavior for a child, they ask themselves this question again and again. What is wrong? Normally the child may not be able to concentrate or focus at all. They may not even be able to answer a simple question about what they did...more
One of the major problems facing parent(s), caregiver(s), today with autistic children is loneliness and feeling alone. This has been my experience, as I see more and more families who have autistic children. They are requesting help and guidance on how to handle loneliness in their lives, due to the fact that they have an autistic child.I have...more
The Leapfrog Phonics Writing Desk is a singular plaything for children which lets them to larn how to read and spell without any pushing them and without any dull acquisition procedure. They can commence playing right away and acquire how to translate, spell and spell en route. All with fun and motivating so that they enjoy larning justly from the beginning.As a kid, it can be hard to cope with everything the world throws at you. New faces, facts and information everyday, and you want to memorise and acquire a great deal of things. School assists acquiring very much, but once school is out children favor to play, and it is kinda hard to get them to do something else because their straying intellects have difficulty concentrating on things which aren't interesting by themselves. This is why utilizing the assistance of electronic devices such as the Phonics Writing Desk is a great mode to excite the acquisition and didactics of our children while not pushing them to do more than they have to do at school.Instead of pushing them to acquire which would entirely create mediochre upshots, the Leapfrog Phonics Writing Desk gives them the possibility to acquire at their own...more
Are you interested in curling your childs hair? There are two methods using a curling iron and a sponge curler. These styling products help in curling your kids hair temporarily. The curling iron is easier as it wont take much time but if you are...more
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Leading student accommodation provider UNITE spoke to 2000 parents whose kids flew the coop for uni in the last few years and found that time saved on domestic chores coupled with less to pay on food and utility bills has given them a new lease of...more