What is your best nugget of knowledge on raising kids with ADHD

1. Eliminate all empty calorie foods 2. No soda 3. Real juice only (no sugar juice flavored drinks) 4. Eliminate white sugar 5. Eliminate white flour products 6. Eliminate fast foods/junk foods 7. Eliminate artificial flavors 8. Eliminate artificial colors Go to "5 A Day", US Dept of Agriculture website on nutrition, enter age & gender, and get a nutritional evaluation. http://www.5aday.gov 9. Let your boys play outside. ALOT! 10. Make check lists for everything! Good luck. Nutrition often makes a big different in people's lives.

It seems that whenever I share my opinions about the "disease" that I came across with the term in here and have read few stuff about, all people are trying to "kill" me. I feel that this disease is to describe very energetic kids, the most smart ones etc. Sorry, but I think if you believe in that disease, then you have to ask for your doctor for information and rules and not people who are nos specialists, or doctors.

i have my eldest son that has adhd and it is a daily learning of what to do and how to handle it. he is 16 and was diagnosed when he was 7, believe it or not letting them play video games does help, it has thier mind focused ont it, so that the brain waves a stimulated. there are always good and bad but you just have to do what you can.

Respect, love them and give them attention. My hubby has got it and wasn't given the attention he needed.

Don't be afraid to help them learn in the best way FOR THEM. Not every child has to be strapped to a desk for eight hours a day! :-) My mother home schools and I know that my brother Steven, just turned 7, would be a "problem child" in a public school situation. My mom has learned to be creative with his learning to help him focus and not force him to be something he is not. For example: She placed the alphabet flash cards on the stairwell...cards on each step...and Steven would jump from step to step and say the letter and sound for each step. As opposed to having to "sit still". FOR HIM sitting still was a huge distraction because he is almost always moving. :-) Allowing him to act out a history lesson instead of giving a "report", saying math facts in time to jumping jump-jacks, or sending him out to run around the house three times before coming in for his spelling test...these are all unorthadox ways she has helped him still be successful when it coms to his education. Also, strict attention to diet has helped tremendously. Mom now uses Stevia for cooking almost exclusively (rather than sugar) and has noticed a huge difference. No sodas either, except on NON-school days! :-D Angela

go for regular medical checkup our childrens

dealing a child who is diagnosed to have ADHD is hard. what i can advise u is to continue the medication (did the doctor prescribe ritalin?), constant check up, and the most important one is patience. love your child be consistent in disciplining him, do not force him to have a gud grade because children who have ADHD has difficulty in focusing. you could get through this one. take care a lot!

i smack them if they dont pay attition