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<blockquote data-quote="Icefairy88" data-source="post: 675012" data-attributes="member: 19875">I've been talking with my mother this morning. She knows the kind of struggles we've had with her over the years. I was so upset that she offered to have my daughter move in with her for the rest of the school year to give us a break. I told her that I didn't think it was an option. We've sevens counsellors in the past who had no personal experience with living with ADHD kids, and it ended in disaster. We see her pediatrician in the new year.I think she is probably ODD (oposistional defiance disorder) which a lot of the time goes hand-in-hand with ADHD. She's been this way since she was very small. Every symptom we read, she has. It's starting to spill over to defying and talking back to her daycare teachers (they go to daycare after school), recently, at her grandparents it's starting. She has a hard time with her peers and keeping friends.I take time outs every 2-3 evenings to go have coffee with my girl friends. They know the issues we have, but not the lessor feelings I have because of it. I feel like a monster. I feel that the feelings I have towards her are unsettling to myself because I don't feel this way towards my sons. But my mother even said, when she was raising my brother and I, she would have taken 10 little boys to one little girl because girls are significantly harder to raise. That's not a shot against me, I know I was hard to raise but for different reasons than we are experiencing with my daughter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Icefairy88, post: 675012, member: 19875"] I've been talking with my mother this morning. She knows the kind of struggles we've had with her over the years. I was so upset that she offered to have my daughter move in with her for the rest of the school year to give us a break. I told her that I didn't think it was an option. We've sevens counsellors in the past who had no personal experience with living with ADHD kids, and it ended in disaster. We see her pediatrician in the new year. I think she is probably ODD (oposistional defiance disorder) which a lot of the time goes hand-in-hand with ADHD. She's been this way since she was very small. Every symptom we read, she has. It's starting to spill over to defying and talking back to her daycare teachers (they go to daycare after school), recently, at her grandparents it's starting. She has a hard time with her peers and keeping friends. I take time outs every 2-3 evenings to go have coffee with my girl friends. They know the issues we have, but not the lessor feelings I have because of it. I feel like a monster. I feel that the feelings I have towards her are unsettling to myself because I don't feel this way towards my sons. But my mother even said, when she was raising my brother and I, she would have taken 10 little boys to one little girl because girls are significantly harder to raise. That's not a shot against me, I know I was hard to raise but for different reasons than we are experiencing with my daughter. [/QUOTE]

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