My 8 year old son has ADHD. Since he was 3, he gets up in the middle of the night and raids my kitchen, making messes and wasting anything that isn't locked up tight. He is on medication for his ADHD, but he still wastes no opportunity to touch things that don't belong to him. We have tried punishments like taking away a privilage when he steals, giving him a boring breakfast instead of things he likes, sending him to his room, and even spanking. Nothing works. We hate having to lock up our kitchen to save our food from our own son. Its not just the kitchen either - within minutes of sending him to bed, he is ransacking my room for goodies I may have hidden there, or simply because he knows he is not allowed to do it. We are not willing to accept that nothing can be done about this, and that he is not capable of making the right choices, but we are at the end of our patience and need some help - any suggestions? Please, no jokes, we aren't laughing.
2006-09-04
16:49:21
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Timberwolf
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