Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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Today’s Victory x 2 3-22-2012

Today’s victory is brought to you by Tobey. Tobey is our newest addition to the family. He is an all black pomeranian less than two years of age.  He has been in our family since last summer.  He is a rescue from an abusive owner. David was getting anxious about something.  Tobey, jumped up on his lap until he calmed down.  This isn’t the first time that he has done this for David, but it is the first time that Tobey’s action clicked into a thought about what exactly he was doing. The second victory is brought to you by David.  We were reading in his book, and he said, “I want to keep reading, I don’t want to stop when you said I could.” Very cool that he likes to read. Related articles My Guide Dog is a Monkey: Medical Expense Tax Deductions for Service Animals (biteyourbills.wordpress.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

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