Today Michael and I took Alex to the Ped. for his 5 year well check and to discuss the possibilites of having him tested for ADD/ADHD. We've started the school year off on a rocky note and don't want him to get behind so early on and never catch up. He had a great check up he's in the 90% on his weight and 75% on height. He'd actually gained 8lbs since last year and grown 3 1/2 inches. Dr. was very pleased with him but does see our concern with his overactivity just from being in the office with him. He just doesn't seem to know when to stop. So we've got an appointment set up for November to have him evaluated and we got some tips from the Dr. on how to deal with things for now until we find out if there is something wrong that he can't help or if we just need to totally revamp our parenting. We'll see. It's a long ways off yet and hopefully school will not be a huge issue. They just told us to limit sugar intake which we do and be sure to let him have plenty of opportunity to run out his overabundance of energy. Discipline for an ADHD child is totally different. They advised us to try making him march in place or run a lap around the house as punishment to burn off some energy. We'll see. We feel very good about what we are doing, the Dr. assured us we were doing the right thing and were doing fine with him. Time will tell........... I'll post a pic later........
When we got to school to pick him up he was on the playground and by the time I got checked in at school and out there to get him he'd already hit a little girl. The teacher was talking to him and he ended up the day on a sad face. :o( We're supposed to be camping this weekend at Green River and we told him if he was bad this week he wasn't going to get to go. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
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That is funny...we took Daria for her 4 yr check up a few weeks ago and she was 90% height and 75% weight....LOL
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