ADHD natural alternatives can include music therapy, yoga, meditation, pet therapy, equine therapy, neurofeedback, behavior therapy, herbal remedies and homeopathy. I have not even mentioned them all! If you have ever thought about a natural remedy for ADHD, read on!In this article I wish to concentrate on two of the ADHD natural alternatives which are neurofeedback and behavior therapy.In a recent article of the Journal of Child...more
If your child is hyperactive, you may be wondering what treatment is the best. You may also start to question why psychostimulants are always the first treatment option. But if your child has ADHD, can this type of drug really get him back on track, calm the hyperactivity and increase attention span and improve concentration?Let us have a look at attention span. It is a curious ADHD fact that hyperactive kids have great attention...more
Did you know that very often a hyperactive child is actually depressed? He or she may also be the target of bullying at school and will sometimes be quite lonely due to the total inability to socialize with her classmates. So, as well as all the other problems associated with how to treat hyperactive child such as restlessness, constant talking and squirming, depression and loneliness may also be a problem.The first thing we need to know about how to treat hyperactive child is that telling them to sit still in class or when doing homework is actually not a good idea at all. The reason is that hyperactive kids need a secondary activity when they are doing the primary activity, in this case, trying to concentrate or focus. That activity could be listening to music or wriggling around on a stability ball. We do this all the time ourselves when we doodle while on the phone or chew gum.Research now shows that the hyperactive kid is not going to be affected in any way by instructions such as telling them to sit still or stop squirming when in class. He may well need these physical activities to get the mental task done. If you ever get a chance to read Dr. Sydney Zentall's...more
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...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...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...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...more
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Many would consider Fall Out Boy albums to be quite young. After all, the group that generated them only came together in 2001. In music years, that would indeed be considered pretty young. Some would say the group is also short lived.It was only...more