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How do we keep this from happening again? Are there any special precautions I should take besides triple locking the medications? He spent five days and six nights in a treatment facility.

May I ask a question? Just how far do you allow your difficult child's disrespect to go before you put on the brakes? I know I am supposed to choose basket A, B, and C. Since most behaviors have stopped, there are new ones arising and I am finding myself changing my baskets continuously. Has anyone else...

Does risperdal help with impulse control? After a long reprieve, we are back in therapy for some issues we are experiencing in the third grade. My son has been diagnosed as having Intermittent Explosive Disorder. We had some episodes of stealing along with some other impulse control issues...

Hi everyone! My son has been diagnosed ADHD and PTSD. He is on Vyvanse 50 mg. for during the school day and Seroquel XR in order to counteract the effects of the Vyvanse and allow him to sleep throught the night and keep the bad dreams away (according to the psychiatrist). Well, I am a...

Today is difficult child's first conference of the year. The teacher has 20 years of experience. She has not seen any of the behaviors that I see from my son because he has been fully medicated at school. That is until two weeks ago, he started acting out and may need an adjustment to his medications. He was set...

I have found ourselves in the same rut as before with my difficult child. Me becoming depressed and just giving up and allowing my son to play his video games just to keep the peace and harmony in the home. I need to step up the consequences and back them up but I hate to hear the stomping, screaming, and...

This morning my son ran out in front if a special needs bus. The bus of course stopped and my son was smiling and laughing AS IF THIS WAS A FUNNY THING TO DO! I now will have to hold his hand at the bus stop the whole time while he and his brother and I are at the stop. The bus was not his...

Hubby is going out of town for a week. I am gonna have to do it all by myself. It is the first time I have ever been alone with the kids overnight. I always have had someone stay with us. I have ti figure out how to do this on my own. To be honest, it is more work to get someone to stay with us...

The psychiatrist that we see for difficult child has taken a counselor into the practice. I am very excited about this as I felt funny that we were just giving my son medications which works wonders for him and was hoping to eventually get him into some type of counseling also. Well, we started with this guy...

We were in a restaurant today for a quick bite to eat. It was a barbecue place-nothing fancy. My difficult child starts screaming and tantruming over a drink-a drink!!!! My husband was not delivering the drink fast enough I guess! So, I am trying to get him to understand that hubby is making the drinks...

I am taking my six year old son to the neuropsychologist today. I am hoping that he can confirm for me scientifically that my son is ADHD. I have been medicating him this year for Kindergarten and the medications are working but they keep having to up the dosage and this makes me nervous. The psychologist...

I was talking to difficult child's counselor at school and we were discussing his tantrums and she suggested this website. www.angriesout.com Most of it is good information from the perspective of the parent and the child. I just wanted to share with anyone who may be interested. I know I liked it. It...

My difficult child told me this a.m. that he was going to call the police and tell them to put me in jail and tell them to kill me. I told him that was very inappropriate and that he cannot go around saying that...etc....etc...... He went to school and not 4 hours later a girl yells at him and he says...

My difficult child is on Vyvanse for ADHD. He has been taking it for a week and a half. I am already seeing an improvement in his behavior at home and at school. He has been getting all greens --which is good--on his behavior chart and I am shocked to say the least that this has happened so quickly. I am...

Today when I went to pick up my son from the bus stop, the new driver of 4 days was complaining that he was not sitting still on the bus, standing in the seat and putting his hands out the window, etc. I was so upset. Last year Ihe rodr the bus and was fine but they had seats with seat belts and...

Please tell me what I should expect at an ADHD evaluation? I have an appointment Wednesday with difficult child's pediatrician to discuss the possibilty of his having this. The questionnaires have been filled out by myself, my husband, and his teachers. Two letters of recommendation also have been...

Has anyone read Elephant In the Playroom? It is a really nice compilation of stories about parents and their special needs kids. Really a good book.Just vurious if anyone else had read it. It gave me some insight into some of my son's behaviors.

I have noticed myself trying to be very careful about "not" angering my child lately. It is almost the end of the year of school and I am just trying to get him through the end of the year and I am so exhausted with his tantrums. I feel that I may be putting things in basket B (Explosive...

Last night we went to easy child's school program. It went well until the middle when my difficult child started getting antsy and wanted to get water, etc....A.K.A. wanting to play in the foyer and hallways of the preschool. We got water and he ran way ahead of me into the church where the program was being...

I was quietly waiting in the speech therapy waiting room while my easy child was in speech. Speech is at the same school that my difficult child attends 5 days a week for pre-k. Imagine my shock when I hear my difficult child's screams and five seconds later his teacher is carrying him to the office and he is kicking and...