Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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Stuart Little teaching lessons.

Today’s Rocking! We have had an excellent morning, David still isn’t feeling the best, so he slept in a little bit. He is working on his favourite puzzles, word search, and we started reading Stuart Little by E.B. White today. He reads so fast that I don’t know if he is actually reading, so I make him read out loud. He has an incredible reading style, but needs to remember to breathe before he runs out of air. Did you know that there are teaching materials that go along with this book?  That is so cool! I would like to find some teaching materials to go along with the Little House series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

medication delivery 101 – Creativity a must

So how do you medicate a child of 10 who really doesn’t want to be medicated? You might remember a couple of weeks ago when David was off his meds and had to go to the hospital. Well, one solution was to put a Rittalin patch on his hip.  It is good for 9 hours.  Fine, dandy even, but what if he takes the patch off less than half way through his day? David’s ADHD redefines ADHD for most doctor’s.  Most doctor’s tell us that they have never seen a more severe case of ADHD. Back to the drawing board, I guess. How creative can we get with medication delivery?   Related articles Gifted, creative, or ADHD? (christinefonseca.wordpress.com) ADHD Diagnoses More Common in Youngest Kids in Class (news.health.com) Are kids being diagnosed with ADHD just for being young? [Medicine] (io9.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

Today’s Victory 3-21-2012- exploring gifts

Today was a good day.  Some issues with David listening, but that isn’t unusual. During lessons today we did some grammar and spelling worksheets. One of the worksheets was unscrambling letters to form a word.  The shortest word was 6 letters.  Twelve words total, took him less than five minutes. I asked him how he does it, and he said “I just see the letters the way they are supposed to be. ” As a treat I gave him a word search, which he loves to do.  In no time, he was done with his lessons, and you know what?  I had no problems getting him to work on his lessons.  Now he is playing baseball on the Wii.  Tomorrow we will go outside for a while so he can shoot hoops in the driveway. During lessons today, I told David that we need to concentrate on the good aspects

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