I started this blog to be able to share with family and
close friends the adventures with the boys! Well, we have started an adventure
all right and I will be the first one to admit that it was well needed!
When Fisher was young he would throw temper tantrums to the point of no
return. He could not calm himself down
from them and it was a horrible time for a mother and father to be able to
control this. We tried everything from
spanking, time out, walking out of the room, taking everything away to just
down right yelling! We as parents were
exhausted! We knew he was spoiled at his
old school so we figured when he did not get his way or do what he wanted to do
he would throw a fit, well….
We started Kindergarten on August 9th. It’s supposed to be a great time in every
parent’s eyes to be able to cry (because they are growing up) and to get
excited when they get excited about school.
Well for the first 2 weeks we got nothing but reds. It is very embarrassing as a parent to be
known as “Fisher’s Mom” the BAD kid! I
would cry and cry to my mom and my husband and just ask “what have we done
wrong”? The teacher and I had a talk and
she just said Amanda, I just don’t think he is able to control himself. I think that he is not doing this stuff on
purpose or to hurt anyone. So all of
this time that I was yelling at him and scolding him was for something he could
not control! That makes you feel like
crap!!!
Once talking with his doctor it was decided that he needed
medication. Also as a mother I’m
thinking “he’s just too young and what are other people going to think”! WELL, I am done caring what others
think. I know what is best for my son
and he has done a 180 since he has started medicine almost a week ago! No he is not the same hyper kid but he still
has his personality at times and he can actually “think” about what he is
doing! He LOVES school and talks about
it when he gets home now! And to see his
face just light up when he says he got a “Green” was the best in the
world! It has been a long road of reds
before we got all of these greens! I had
to step back and think about what is best for my child and what I was doing to
him if I was not able to help him excel!
He is a very brilliant child but just needed the attention span to keep
up with studies and to sit long enough to enjoy what he was learning!
I love my children to the moon and back and would do
anything for them! ADHD can be over
diagnosed at times but when you truly need medicine for it then it makes a
world of difference! My husband and I are able to talk when we get home instead
of fight because we are exhausted from the day that we have had with him! We
are able to talk with Fisher about how his day went and he is able to talk with
us and gets excited about learning! I don’t feel like I am constantly asking
him to do things over and over again because he cannot understand what I am
talking about!
We will be seeing a psychologist to get 100% diagnosis
tomorrow and he will see a counselor each week to cope with it so he is not dependent
on it for the rest of his life!
Some still might talk behind my back about what they think
is best, that he is too young or that he really doesn’t need it! But take a walk in my shoes over the past 3
years and you tell me what is right and wrong!
