My granddaughter has ADHD

My granddaughter was diagnosed with ADHD when she was 4-years-old and now she is 10-years-old.  She was held back in pre-school, because she had so much trouble sitting still, focusing, keeping her hands to herself, and was always wanting to run all over the classroom looking at everything.  She would spend several minutes if that at each thing she was looking at and be off again.

She was so active that she was always accident prone: we were constantly taking her to ER.  We had rules about what types of things were allowed in the house.  For example: nothing with long sticks that she could put in her mouth and run with; as she was running with a toy pool que in her mouth - fell down and it stuck in the back of her throat and it had to be removed at the ER.  If it had been went in a smidgen one way or the other she would have bled to death.  Another time when she was at school the room mothers and the teacher were given a note from the doctor stating what kinds of candy she could have and what she wasn't allowed to have: but they still gave her small lolli pops on a stick that if she fell she could chock on them.  It just so happened they were playing running games and she fell: the lolli pop portion lodged itself in the back of her throat and the stick was stuck in her cheek: again we rushed her to the ER.  Again we were told how lucky our granddaughter was.  From then on when there was a class party either my daughter or I would sit in to make sure that she didn't get something that could be dangerous to her health.

My granddaughter was held back again later when she was in 1st grade: but she is a bright 10-year-old if she is given instruction according to the appropriate way she learns: which is by allowing her to move around while learning: using Kinetics.  When ever I do get to spend time with her I have found that is the way she learns and is when she is able to retain a majority of what she is being taught. 

Every time she has been tested for ADHD she has never been able to score on the test because she has never been allowed to move around.  My daughter is constantly fighting to keep her in in Catholic School: as they say my granddaughters ADHD interfers  with the other students in her class: so far she has managed to keep her enrolled there.  My granddaughter wanted to to attend the Catholic School that she convinced her mother to convert to Catholicism and so they both did.  My granddaughter is so much happier there and a lot less stressed as well. 

Something I have found for children of all ages with ADHD is to find a hobby of some sort they like to do all the time: that they can't get into trouble with and that is strickly there thing to do and none of the kids are allowed to touch it ever : while you as the parent can observe and ask questions as a learning activity.