Adhd symptoms in a 5 year old
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I have a 5 year old little girl who has shown hyper activity ever since she was 1 year old. I could never take her anywhere without her all over the place. She has excellent grades in school but once she has a meltdown it takes her about 30 minutes to get back into routine. I have grounded her, taken away special items and have even used soap in her mouth. She is very distracted when doing after school activities.
We are at the point he is now getting behavior reports all the time and now his teacher has called me today for a meeting with us and her. I am so terribly worried about putting my 5 year old on medication. I am scared this will hurt his brain development. I know in my heart that medication is the answer but I have this feeling about medication as well.
I have a 5 year old son who has just been diagnosed with adhd he just started kindergarten and he is not adjusting very well he trys to run out of the school. at lunch time he crawls underneath the lunch table and wont come out in his clasroom he will roll around on the floor not listen to the teacher trys to talk to the other children when his teacher is trying to teach a lesson.
Please help! I am a mother to an almost 4 year old boy with severe behavior problems. He spits on people, kicks, hits, screams 'shut up'. He does this on a daily basis and often without warning. He is in preschool and even acts this way to his teachers and classmates. He spits on his teacher, in the past has played in his feces (happened a few times months ago), calls me ugly names. He has broken windows in our home and broken my car windshield.
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2 1/2 years ago my daughter and a terrible immunological reaction to a vaccination. This caused initial severe developmental regression that took about a year to get her back up to her "normal" age (she was almost 5 when this happened). As her development improved, her psychological behavior deteriorated, as well as a major increase in agitation and impassivity.
i have a 5 and half year old son who always hits the children in school (only the boys thou) and his teachers he has been accessed for ADHD which he hasn't got he is very intelligent he also cant sit in assembly as he cant sit still for long enough and gets bored to quickly this has been happening for 2 and a half years now any help would be gratefully received.
I would hope by now, two years after writing that post, you will have realized how ridiculous it was. A parent does not just leave a 5 year old alone to eat, sleep, play, etc. at their every whim. They need to learn routine. They need to learn to eat at breakfast, lunch, and dinner times. Playtime is not when they feel like it in the middle of school. Sleeping 4 hours in the afternoon and getting up at 3 in the morning to play is not healthy.
My 5 year old nephew was diagnosed a little over a year and a half ago with ADHD and ODD. He was in a preschool program last year that dealt with situations like this and he did AMAZING. He is now in kindergarten and things were going great the first week and now I am getting letters that he is "out of bounds" screaming, yelling, running around. He is on Adderall, Risperdal, and Clonidine..
I had a few questions about our 5 year old daughter. I just want to know what we can do about her eating habits and just not paying attention. First for example, most of the time it takes her over an hour to just eat a small meal. Like a bowl of cereal in the morning with a cup of milk. First thing in the morning my wife will get her cereal and milk at 6:30am and then by 7:45am she is still not finshed and is always saying now she is full or her stomach hurts.
Hi there. Well, what you describe almost sounds more like anxiety than it does adhd symptoms. My older son has sensory which is very similar to to adhd, it's neurological in nature as adhd is, and he also has anxiety. The self soothing is something he had to work on. Are you talking about when he is upset, calming himself back down? With my son, we worked with an occupational therapist for strategies for this.
Thank you for the added info. Please remember he is only 3 years old and is really just " a baby". Leaving his mom has gotta be hard for him. I would imagine that his Dads routine is different then the one he is used to and that makes it even more difficult. 3 year olds don't adapt to change very easily. There world is very small.
ADHD is not usually diagnosed at 3. And I don't think that is the trouble here. It may be later on, but not now.
I feel behaviour issues hav`nt been helped by the situation.Previously I have observed the now 5yr old in a trance like state, once when he caught his finger in a draw , he ran out of the room I followed and he was asleep on the floor like in a few seconds, annother when picked up from his Mother he was dehydrated and was trance like for sometime, another he was sitting at the table and suddenly his eyes rolled and he started to fall off the chair.
s a magazine but they have great info and symptoms on the site. Also, ADHD can manifest itself in hyper attentions, which could explain why he loves puzzles, which seems like it would take a lot of attention.
Good luck, and it's great that you are noticing these things and trying to get help. I wish someone would have done that for me. I suffered from it all my life and was not diagnosed until 6 months ago and I'm 34!
Perhaps a strict routine would benefit him, perhaps some social skills games would help, perhaps a particular way of phrasing things would make sense to a 4 year old to help him along, maybe a "story book" that they use in autism (my son doesn't have autism but I use these to help explain things to him at times . . .), maybe there is an activity that is helpful to calming the nervous system , etc. I'd start doing those things to see if it helped.
we have 1 ,two and half year old boy and 2, 3 and a half year old girls. All adopted, all born with distinct differant peronalities from day one. One our oldest (by 18 days) is extremely challanging. We have very consitant, structured days , rules and disapline and that the other two do good with and respond well. She will say no almost everything, even the things she just asked for like milk when you try to give it to her.
thanx for the reply. the 3 year old has already been recognised as having adhd by nursery and docs so hopefully she will get the help she needs when the time comes as they won't prescribe drugs for under 5's i'm told. Our 7 year old is suffering as she isn't behaving badly in school altho she is well behind in her work and needing special help. My son is now 18 and managing his more altho his obsessional behaviour is quite bad at min.
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