When I first started this blog, I didn't know that I'd be adding on Joshua and meds so soon! I really never saw ADHD with him but there was definitely something. He was my most difficult child PERIOD! I didn't know what it was, figured it was bad parenting and that he was made to be an only or oldest child not the 2nd of 4! I always felt he was hurt that every time he'd look at me, Joey was there hanging on me. Like he never could have his momma unless he shared and that really pissed him off!
Speed up to today. I pick him up from summer school and am told he's not doing well. They apparently now have the "getting ready for kindergarten" but I have him in the reading class for K-2. He doesn't need the getting ready, he's totally ready. He's very advanced and about all he needs to start learning is reading. The rest will be review and then building on that. At his Kindergarten screening the only things he needed to work on were reading and money and money is a 3rd quarter skill in out school.
So anyway, today I'm being told he had no letter recognition. WHAT? OhMggggg!! He won't sit still for longer than 3 minutes. He's leaving the classroom and all he wants to do is play. By 9am he was telling them he wanted to be picked up now.
This kid LOVES school. Granted this is a new school and new kids but still, he'd get really pissy with me last year if I kept him home for some reason... until the end of the year. I was taking him to Children's to be evaluated, as a precaution (to make sure we didn't miss anything) really. His appointments were in the morning allowing him to attend school in the afternoon as usual. He would choose not to go all of a sudden. At his psych evaluation he was the poster child for hyperactivity. He couldn't stop moving or at least humming/singing for even a minute.
School only wants him to come now with the kindergartners 2 days a week instead of 4 days.
I got home and called the Child Development pediatrician and asked him if I could give Joshua the Metadate CD 10mg that Joey can't take. I know it's low dose and I figure if it doesn't work what's it going to hurt right? The pediatrician said go ahead, if it's not right it won't work and the worse result is I'll have a miserable moody child for the day (so what's new???) but he's not convenience that it will work. He thinks Joshua's problem is more of a mood disorder which can look like ADHD I guess. Personally I think if there's a mood disorder it will be in addition to the ADHD.
11:30am I gave him his first dose of metadate. I'm going to find him an assignment notebook or something for the teacher to mark down his behavior so I can reward him at home for good behavior. I'm also going to print up a special calendar/schedule for him like I did Joey to keep track of meds, behavior and trends.
Guess this ADHD lane is wider than I thought!!
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