Wednesday, October 29, 2008
ADHD symptoms can sometimes decrease as children get older. Hyperactivity and impulsiveness tend to lessen as children mature. Although these symptoms may remain throughout life and continue to cause difficulties for adults, typically, the symptoms are not as disruptive in daily life for adults as th...
My son is 12, adhd, impulsive and oppositional are his main symptoms, he is not on meds but was in the past. He has always made good grades mostly A's and B's. He started middle scholl this year (6th grade). He's been getting bad grades bringing home his first report card with a D and F on it. We decided to ground him ( which consists of no playing outside and no video games) for 2 weeks. He improved his grades some but after the 2 weeks were over and his grades were up they began to decline again. We then decided to ground him indefinalty untill he got his grades back up. This made him more accountable and less likely to procrastinate. We told him when all of his teachers report to us that his grades are at least C's and ALL assignments were turned in then that day he could be ungrounded and if we were alerted that his grades declined or an assignment was not turned in the grounding would go back into affect. This has worked WELL for him. His behavior has been a lot or trial and error. It is a continual problem. Luckily we have made a breakthrogh in at least keeping his grades up. We put his grounding into his own hands so to speak, because it was it was what he did or didn't do that got him ungrounded. Also, it made him hungry to do better to get ungrounded. This has taken some serious communication with his teachers and the school web site but he is now in his second grading period and he has mostly B's, an A, and a couple C's. I thought I would share for any of you out there who have kids in middle school that may be showing signs of struggle for the first time. One other thing, I bought him a folder for each class to keep things organized and he used his one binder instead for all of his classes. Totally unorganized, i took his back pack opened through out the junk, old papers and made him start using those separate folders, bringing all of his books home everyday instead of remembering just the ones he needed for homework because he was coming home without the book he needed, now he has no excuses why he can't do his homework.