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Just left school after a battle to get him to take medications. I cannot keep doing this.
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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 485067" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>don't know if you have tried this, but we wake up our kids in bed in the morning about 1 hr before they have to get up and give them their ADHD medication. While they don't fight taking it, they are basically still asleep and then go back to sleep for a while. The advantage is that when they get up they are a bit more cooperative about everything else. Then they have the medications on board when they go to school (we live only10 min from school so they don't have a long bus ride or whatever to wake up). </p><p></p><p>Might be worth trying. </p><p></p><p>the other thing that comes across in your email was something similar to my son. when we tried to impose consequences because he was fighting school so much when he was young (didn't want to do work, wasn't fighting people) he got to the point where he said life isn't worth living, you take away everything that is good in my life. He was a pretty depressed kid even before that--and all the struggles only added to his sense of himself as worthless. So keep an eye on whether you think he might be depressed. And don't go to an SSRI (like Prozac or Zoloft) without checking in with this board first!</p><p></p><p>Hugs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 485067, member: 2322"] don't know if you have tried this, but we wake up our kids in bed in the morning about 1 hr before they have to get up and give them their ADHD medication. While they don't fight taking it, they are basically still asleep and then go back to sleep for a while. The advantage is that when they get up they are a bit more cooperative about everything else. Then they have the medications on board when they go to school (we live only10 min from school so they don't have a long bus ride or whatever to wake up). Might be worth trying. the other thing that comes across in your email was something similar to my son. when we tried to impose consequences because he was fighting school so much when he was young (didn't want to do work, wasn't fighting people) he got to the point where he said life isn't worth living, you take away everything that is good in my life. He was a pretty depressed kid even before that--and all the struggles only added to his sense of himself as worthless. So keep an eye on whether you think he might be depressed. And don't go to an SSRI (like Prozac or Zoloft) without checking in with this board first! Hugs. [/QUOTE]
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