What was your 'aha' moment when you realized your child has ADHD? 👉
"My 'aha' moment was when I realized my son ate all of his meals standing. This allowed him to constantly move his feet while eating. If I forced him to sit at the table, he wouldn’t eat.""You would have thought the 'aha' would have been his lack of progress or incomplete work at school.
"My ‘aha’ moment came after watching my son and his friend do homework together. My son was bouncing around, looking everywhere but at the paper, tapping his pencil like crazy, and answering questions in random order. His friend was calmly sitting there doing the homework and methodically going through the problems. That helped me to not just discount it as boys' behavior, but to realize there may be more going on than I originally thought.
reactions, etc. In first grade though, as she struggled in school, I could compare her to her twin and the differences were obvious."More Than Carelessness "My 'aha' moment came when my son wore his shirt backwards again — even though I told him not to many, many times before. At that point, I had to admit: That’s not careless inattention; that is ADHD."
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