D is, 11 years old and he has always thought the universe revolves around him. No matter what we d o to break him of this thought he makes even simple conversations impossible when i he is around. It doesn't matter if someone is speaking, D speaks over them and 99.5% of the time what he has to say has nothing at all to do with the conversation at hand.
He did this so often in school that we pulled him out and his father is homeschooling him. He does this while being homeschooled, too.
He still runs in the street, the out looking, and says "cars will just have to stop" ...we can not impress on him that he will get hurt quite badly of the car can't stop.
He goes over to friends houses and expects them to watch what he wants. listen to the radio station he wants and demands access to the computer. ...I have had to password protect this one because he removed the firewall and Virus protection on the last one and ruined it. ...20 gigs of info lost...and he threatens to break this one "to bits" if I do not allow him access.
I put C in the playpen so that I can cook with out C trying to touch the stove or pull all the pots out of the cupbord and D takes him out and tells me to "shove off" when I put C back. We had a hour battle about this one night. If I let D play with C when I am cooking he gets bored and wanders off , with out saying anything and C has left the house twice because of this.
We take him to the beach and he runs off while we are chaning C into his swimsuit and goes in the water with out supervision, and I have had to drag him into water of a safe depth bodily...he was so far out that the lifegaurd was afraid he could not get to him if D got in trouble.
We realize that he is ADHD and that fearless/lack of foresight is part of that but it's gotten to the point where he is banned from most of his friends houses because of his behaviour, and a lot of what he does is truely dangerous.
I don't like the screaming , putting in the corner, sitting on bed w/o toys or companionship or other methods his dad likes, but talking with this kid does nto work, nor do point systems or other methods I have tried.
We tried counseling for 2. 5 years when he was in school , it made no difference in his behaviour.
Any suggestions?
He did this so often in school that we pulled him out and his father is homeschooling him. He does this while being homeschooled, too.
He still runs in the street, the out looking, and says "cars will just have to stop" ...we can not impress on him that he will get hurt quite badly of the car can't stop.
He goes over to friends houses and expects them to watch what he wants. listen to the radio station he wants and demands access to the computer. ...I have had to password protect this one because he removed the firewall and Virus protection on the last one and ruined it. ...20 gigs of info lost...and he threatens to break this one "to bits" if I do not allow him access.
I put C in the playpen so that I can cook with out C trying to touch the stove or pull all the pots out of the cupbord and D takes him out and tells me to "shove off" when I put C back. We had a hour battle about this one night. If I let D play with C when I am cooking he gets bored and wanders off , with out saying anything and C has left the house twice because of this.
We take him to the beach and he runs off while we are chaning C into his swimsuit and goes in the water with out supervision, and I have had to drag him into water of a safe depth bodily...he was so far out that the lifegaurd was afraid he could not get to him if D got in trouble.
We realize that he is ADHD and that fearless/lack of foresight is part of that but it's gotten to the point where he is banned from most of his friends houses because of his behaviour, and a lot of what he does is truely dangerous.
I don't like the screaming , putting in the corner, sitting on bed w/o toys or companionship or other methods his dad likes, but talking with this kid does nto work, nor do point systems or other methods I have tried.
We tried counseling for 2. 5 years when he was in school , it made no difference in his behaviour.
Any suggestions?
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