Hi everyone, Happy New Year!
New here and looking forward to getting to know you all.
Have been experiencing huge problems with my 9 year old son. I think he may have ADHD. He seems to have a problem reading social cues and is very rude with adults. For example a friend asked DS over the phone the other day if he wanted his best friend to come over and play and his reply was "that's a stupid question". Ok, so he was trying to be sarcastic, but that's just not what you say to an adult . There have been many similar incidents lately and my alarm bells are starting to go off. I am even thinking that perhaps I am doing something wrong and it's my fault. He is very hyper and cannot sit still for a second, although he has no problem sleeping at night. He is very insensitive with other kids and says hurtful things to them. Like "Are you are stupid" etc. He is very "self righteous" and arrogant in may situations. I have explained to him that these are not nice things to say etc., tried taking away privileges etc. but nothing seems to work.
Anyhow, it has got to the stage that we want to take DS to a child psychologist and my question is, for anyone who has been in a similar position, how do your prepare your child for this? What do say to them? I don't want to give DS the impression that there is anything wrong with him, know what I mean?
Any advice you can give would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks from a very worried and stressed Mum.
New here and looking forward to getting to know you all.
Have been experiencing huge problems with my 9 year old son. I think he may have ADHD. He seems to have a problem reading social cues and is very rude with adults. For example a friend asked DS over the phone the other day if he wanted his best friend to come over and play and his reply was "that's a stupid question". Ok, so he was trying to be sarcastic, but that's just not what you say to an adult . There have been many similar incidents lately and my alarm bells are starting to go off. I am even thinking that perhaps I am doing something wrong and it's my fault. He is very hyper and cannot sit still for a second, although he has no problem sleeping at night. He is very insensitive with other kids and says hurtful things to them. Like "Are you are stupid" etc. He is very "self righteous" and arrogant in may situations. I have explained to him that these are not nice things to say etc., tried taking away privileges etc. but nothing seems to work.
Anyhow, it has got to the stage that we want to take DS to a child psychologist and my question is, for anyone who has been in a similar position, how do your prepare your child for this? What do say to them? I don't want to give DS the impression that there is anything wrong with him, know what I mean?
Any advice you can give would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks from a very worried and stressed Mum.