Did we do something wrong?

When our son was little, he was the happiest, go lucky kid with a few quirks. One was that all the doors in the house had to be closed, another was that moving furniture without him knowing about the move first was very hard for him to take. Yet another was that there was a specific time he did things, whether we made the schedule that way or not (i.e. naps, eating etc.) I really thought nothing of it. Chalked it up to him being him. When he turned 4, these things started to get a little more present. Plus he started exhibiting a temper like no child should have. It was like the movie Poltergeist at times with chairs and toys flying through the room, of course this was because he was throwing them. This was chalked up to being 4 and learning his independence. Just before he turned 5, we started him in a 2 year kindergarten program. He was a great student, but he couldn't sit still, or keep his mouth shut. His reviews from the teacher were fine but she was a little concerned with his behavior. We chalked that up to his age and maybe we started school to soon. So half way through the year, we pulled him out of school.

Then during the summer before he started full day kindergarten (second time of school), my husband was watching a TV show that was talking about ADHD. He called me immediately after the show was done, and said that we needed to talk....Oh my, what did I do wrong?....about our son. Phew. When I got home he had a bunch of information written down. While looking through it, we realized that our son had checkmarks next to almost all of the symptoms that were given.

Ring ring, Hi doctor, we need to talk about our kid here. And so our journey began. He was tested and came out with horrible scores for his memory and great scores for his intelligence. Scratch scratch went the hand on my head.

We started with medication and then took him off. During school he seems to be fine. The structure helps him and since it was full day school there was MUCH more structure to his day. So I am starting this blog to find more families like ours. Little ones with big attitudes not by any fault of their own (or their parents for that matter) but thanks to the monster we call ADHD. Hopefully we can connect and feel more like we don't have monsters to fight off daily but great little kids that just need extra strength parents and families!