May I PLEASE scream!

[Jorgy]

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH. Thankyou. Very bad morning and I needed that! Great thing is... not the ADHDer that caused it today, although he didn't help matters either. My 9 yr old daughter is going to drive me nuts before she even hits puberty!!! I hate the days they go out of the house crying, makes for a bad start for all of us. Thanks for the vent even though it probably doesn't make sense. Sue

[Linda]

Scream all you want girl.....we all have those mornings!

[vickilyn32]

Can I join you in your scream? My 10 yr old DD is driving me crazy. DS 13 is the one with ADD, DD is gifted and now seems to think that she is a big deal. If she survives 5th grade I will be suprised. 5th grade is the big kids in elementary school, and she act like it.

[crazymama]

You may scream and I will scream and then we should all go eat ice cream out of the container!! I too have as 9 DD that leaves the house crying. She is not the ADHD one either. Gotta love pre-puberty!!!Blah

[Jenn]

Mine never leave crying but they do leave hearing a few choice words on day they push my limits. I am finally back on a normal sleep pattern and been sleeping until 10 to 6 so it is a slight rush to dress and Kat takes her dear sweet time. I am fixing to ban the cats. Lock them up when it is time to wake her up so that she is not as distracted from her dressing..... lol

[finnmom]

;DScream little harder, I couldn´t hear anything!!! ;D ;D
That morning-sherade sounds little too familiar for me, some chocholad after that screaming might help
Marja

[Jorgy]

thanks guys. Picked up my darling and was told the mornings would go better if I were nicer to her!!!!! I told her I would be nicer if she were nicer to me! All is well now... until tomorrow....another day... another story. Sue

[Veronika]

Isn't that funny? My son always blames things on us! Mostly me!
I can't tell you how many times I heard "If you listen to me I'll listen to you."
So stupid me tried it! It didn't work! He still refused to listen.

[bookangel]

This is my first time posting anything to this support group. I am so glad I found you. You sound just like me. Mornings with my 10 year old ADHD son give me high anxiety. He has a hard time getting started, getting his stuff together (i still do it so we are not too late), leaving the house. By the time we get to school, I feel like I have lived a whole day. Then I go to work.

DS was tested at the end of grade one and after a trial of meds was prescribed Ritalin. I am grateful that works for him and that he has learned to read, write, etc. School is defintely not his favourite (yes, I'm Canadian ) but he passes. He is highly motivated to avoid any work at all so we have to provide external motivators. No homework, then no t.v. Anyhow, he has either hit a wall; or his teacher, who says things like he's not working because he is on some big power-trip and that it is ridiculous that he can't copy his homework assignments in grade 5, just doesn't get it At any rate, he is being tested again for a learning disability and a fine motor assessment with an O.T.

As for the pre-puberty girls, mine have both made it through to the other side; the oldest daughter who is LD (sequential memory disorder) is in university. The second daughter who was surly from 10 to 16 is also at university (we called her the changeling because she is an honour student and takes Calculus 101). If I didn't have them, my confidence in my parenting skills would surely be undermined by my young son.

For every relative who has parenting advice, and for every colleague who has never had children but has advice on how to make this child behave, (be stricter) for every person who suggests a change in his diet (picky eater from the Planetpickiesteaterslivehere), or eliminatiang t.v. (and maybe these things work for some)... I want to scream.

Bottom line, I love him, but he is some hard work and I am tired. Thanks for listening and if anyone is from Southwestern Ontario, say hello.

Take care.

[GSDMommy]

I will join the scream.....lessee:
I have the idiot mother in law who is no longer speaking to me and my children because I "won't relax" my parenting style and won't parent the way she wants. She had a friend who has had ADHD children come along on time to "evaluate me" <not said as much but this person has never been around or mentioned until this time and they hung behind me and muttered alot, then when the topic came up this person had WAYYY too much to say about how to raise these children> this ended in the fact we have not spoken for going on 3 years. And the holidays are coming. I refuse to have anything to do with them or their family for the holidays. Apparently I am supposed to go and play nice for the holidays. Anyone explain why? It is illogical to me.

Next fun thing: dealing with DSS about a child's placement and dealing with all the fun that goes with that because it is nearly impossible to place a child as a person out of the network. So I am dealing with an inherently vindictive system that doesn't care about who they are harming in the way they are handling things for the family.

And in addition: this will be the first holiday season without my mother who passed on Aug 10th.

Can I have a refund for this year??? This was not the year I ordered......I wanted the GOOD one.....>sigh<