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Hyper Or Just Being A Child?

FEW PEOPLE ARE TRULY HYPERACTIVE

Lately, I often seem to be interviewing a family with a newly diagnosed hyperactive child -- who, to my thinking, has few hyperactive traits.
Ref. deseretnews.com

Child Being Or Hyper

Interesting article. The author says that most people do not understand what hyperactivity is, a personality type, and they decide to medicate the child in order to change it, but to change a hyperactive child is like to try to change an ethnic's make up, he says. Most children are medicated when in fact are not truly hyperactive and they do not need to be medicated.

"There are certain traits to hyperactivity, such as the inability to sit still, that annoy most people. Sitting is the bane of any hyperactive's regimen because it is inactive. It's passive, and passivity is always spiritually defeating.
Sitting still hurts. Active muscles cramp, skin crawls with inactivity, the mind screams for stimulation. The hyperactive will be miserable unless he is seduced by an interesting mental connection; then he can sit.

A hyperactive child who is nondirected will disrupt more, annoy more, demand more than ordinary children. The project then is to direct him, and that begins in the home.
Accepting hyperactivity as a personality type that often needs direction will help more sedate adults understand just what it is. Allowing for the physical needs of the child will make homes, classrooms and play environments more manageable. The key word is "action," and that's hard to do from a seated position."

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I believe that there are a lot of medicated children out there who don't need medication at all -- their parents are just too impatient to deal with them. And now they are discovering that those medications can cause suicidal tendencies! It's just too sad.

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Roz

Child Being Or Hyper

Interesting article, I recommend a healthy reading of it.

Child Being Or Hyper

For your consideration, the experiences of a mother of two children with ADHD...

Thomas, who will be 7 in late January, was medically diagnosed as ADHD over 2 years ago. His was no mere case of being over-restless. He exhibited profound behavioral abnormalities which even included physical aggression and mild self-mutilation. My husband and I wouldn't have minded if he had been doing normal kid mischief like scribbling on a wall. Practically every child does that at least once, even in the most highly supervised homes.

A nutritionist friend of ours suggested Tom might have a milk allergy, explaining that aallergies such as this can often be a contributing factor in unacceptable behavior. We took Tom off all milk products and derivitaves (You'd be amazed just how much milk is in the most unlikely places!
A behavior analyst was assigned to our family over a year ago. With the correct meds and some new behavioral modification training, Tom is no longer considered a client. Colin, however...

After being seen by the behavior analyst for a year with only slight improvement, Colin was finally seen by Tom's psychiatrist. In under 5 minutes of seeing Colin in action, the doctor asked why we had waited so long to get him treated. Well, due to Colin's tender age, doc didn't want to go right out and slap the ol' ADHD diagnosis on him. Instead, he's currently labeled as having "impulse control problems." C'mon... if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, swims like a duck... it must be a duck! Anyway, Colin's been on ADHD meds for almost 6 months and there's been a dramatic improvement.

It is important to note that both my husband and I are recovering alkies/addicts. We didn't want to have to have either of our boys on any unnecessary meds. We did everything possible to avoid this reality, but some conditions do require more than non-chemical measures.

Hyper Or Just Being A Child?

Although the first part says 'Utah Moms' I think it is applicable to all moms...

Hyper Or Being Child

When my oldest child was three, our pediatrician diagnosed him with hyperactivity and ADD. She wanted to medicate him, and at such a young age! I was quite disturbed and perturbed at her diagnoses and never went back. Instead, I got a different pediatrician, one that was supportive, and we made different arrangements.

I cleaned out the garage, ran heating and cooling ducts to it, and put carpet down. Our garage is now a play area for my kids. It turned out to be good because my wife can not longer take them out to play. Instead, they can run around and even ride their bikes and trikes in the garage. They also have the responsibility of picking it up every night.

Now my oldest is much better behaved, never watches tv, and helps with chores around the house at the age of almost five! He has so much energy, but is very well behaved and very helpful to my wife. I think medicating children should be an absolute last resort, not a first line of defense for a hyper child.

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I was diagnosed with ADD when I was about seven. I was hyper and really didn't pay attention in class and would constantly draw and move around instead of paying attention in class. I was sent to get tested and was found to have the disorder and I was put on Ridalin and after that I actually got good grades and paid better attention in class. I mean, I still got distracted but not as bad as usual. It slowed me down but I still had (have) an over active imagination that helps me write cool fiction stories and create art work and do theater. I think most people who have ADD or ADHD tend to be good at art.

So really I think of someone who has ADD or ADHD are kids who have their own world where they are very creative and are good at some form of art or science. A wondering mind. It is not good to diagnose a kid based off of being hyper and not sitting still. I mean, that is a trait of many young kids. Now if the kid gets distracted easily and do not pay attention well and have to move every two seconds it may be they have ADD or ADHD. But it is harder to determine that based off of being hyper. Face it, sitting still in school for little kids is difficult. That's why recess was invented and is the highlight of most of the elementary kids day.

So it is hard to say but I definitely had ADD and still have it. But it is almost impossible to know till later on in the kids life.