With the recent call for stronger FDA warnings be placed on some common ADHD medications, many parents are turning to other kinds of treatments to supplement or replace drugs as the primary choice of treatment. It’s not clear that this is a growing trend, or …
Before posting, please read our blog moderation guidelines. The comments below begin with the oldest comments first. Click on the last comments page to jump to the most recent comments.
Before posting, please read our blog moderation guidelines.
Post a Comment:
Copyright © 1992-2012 Psych Central. All rights reserved.
Site last updated: 25 May 2012
|
The pendulum needs to swing back to more time on the playground, recess, and active activities. The focus on education can only go so far when the body doesn’t get stimulation to enable the mind to focus. The new term for ADD with new technologies: Chronic Partial Attention.
Cheers.
I think that parents need to pay closer attention to what they are feeding their chldren.
A lot of behaviors would go away with proper nutrition and avoidance of certain food groups.
With the way our food is today and the SAD diet (standard american diet) of junk, processed food and sugars parents and doctors need to stop looking for the magic pill and start paying attention to what their kids eat. Supplementation is a must, Omega 3′s are necessary, OPC#3, ORAC and B vitamins have worked for many clients who suffer from childhood and adult add/adhd.
Not only do parents need to pay attention to the foods their children eat, they also need to evaulate themselves and their parenting styles. Children learn from a very young age how their parents will respond to different behaviors. Even the slightest response (eg, laughing at or praising inappropriate behaviors because they are perceived as being “cute”in young children) can result in significant behavioral problems as the child develops. Parents don’t cause ADHD, but their behavior may certainly be a significant factor in treating ADHD.
For boys, you need to closely scrutinize whether sitting in a classroom
for 6 hours, being a “good quiet little boy” is a reasonable expectancy.
After struggling with strong ADD for my entire life and not understanding
what I had, I only realized in my late 20′s that my entire schooling was
off-base and ill-suited for people like me— male and with ADD.
The cruel comments made by many of my teachers were because
they thought I had to conform to a mold that I was not created to conform
to.
I do not understand what causes ADD, nobody does. I haven’t found a
sufficient treatment, either. But I have learned that I learn in a hands-on
environment due to being male and having ADD. Public School is NOT a
hands-on, mentor-to-apprentice type environment. Rather, it is a mass
manufacturing industry designed to jam all kids of all types through one
rather insufficient and ill-suited mold.
You can’t use a hammer the same way you use a pencil, and you can’t use
garlic the same way you use vanilla. Kids come in different flavors,
you need to realize you and your child are BOTH individuals of different
flavors and have different tools in your toolbox. Individuate your
child’s environment to set them up for success and don’t exasperate them
with unreasonable expectations. Help them along, don’t nag the death out
of them!
Well, my son sleeps 10-12 hours a night….goes to bed at 7, wakes up at 7. I have had him on the Feingold diet for 3 months. I have been supplementing his diet with fish oils for over a year. I just don’t know how else to help him. He is extremely active, fidegty, impulsive, inattentive. He has had services since 2, now age 6. Gets speech, OT, social skills group, special bus with matron, Karate, swimming. I am exhausted and feel like giving up. I do not want to medicate in fear of harming him. School, so far, one incident (day 4) Behaviorally, not great, academically, ok.
Any other alternative things I can add before meds?