How Teachers Can Help You With Your ADD Child – Attention Deficit Disorder In Children
Attention deficit disorder, also known as ADD, may be affecting you and your family if your child has been diagnosed with this problem. Because your child spends so much time at school, being able to work with your child’s teacher will be very important in dealing with this within your family. Here are some ways to make this a part of the solution to your personal situation.
“You are only as sick as your secrets”. If the oft repeated 12 step slogan is true then our culture is indeed sick. The refusal to acknowledge the link between childhood trauma (big T and little t) and mental health issues of all sorts in adulthood seems to me to be a kind of cultural dissociation. We would rather blame the victim, or in family systems terms set up the “sick” one as an identified patient, who has bad brain chemistry or has come by their mental “illness” in any way other than as a result of their childhood experiences.
Denying the past dooms us to repeat it. Denying the link between childhood trauma and mental health disorders of many kinds leads to inadequate treatment of the put a band-aid on it sort, no treatment at all, and/or adults who are ill prepared to themselves provide good enough parenting (or protect their children from outside perpetrators). And thus the cycle continues.
The pervasiveness of childhood trauma and its long lasting impact is the big secret and survivors who try to talk about their experiences are shamed and stigmatized. We want to view you as other, an anomaly, not the understandable consequence of a sick society.
My Twitter experience felt very much like a reaction to my telling the truth about these issues our culture wants to disavow. If I as a professional am impacted, imagine how much more so this stigma impacts survivors, I was reminded. The silencing, minimizing and blaming that can occur when a survivor tries to tell their story is a whole other level of traumatization.
This experience reminded me that visibility and conversation about trauma-related topics is crucial. It is why I see blogging and using social media to be an important part of my work as a trauma therapist. By speaking out about trauma and its impact I hope to support those who must live with it and to educate those who do not yet understand.
Let us say that your ADHD child has temper tantrums and meltdowns, is aggressive, obnoxious and acts out at school. In addition he may be a defiant child and full of the victimisation syndrome which these kids often have. How do you teach them to be responsible for their actions ? That is precisely what parents learn in a behavior modification program and it is sometimes used as the only way of treating ADHD without meds, although I personally do not agree with that.
I am convinced that teaching children to be responsible for their actions is one of the best ways of disciplining any kid whether he has ADHD or not. It is also one of the best treatments for ADHD out there. It is no accident that the British government is setting funds aside to teach parents of problem kids, these very skills. When this is combined with ADHD homeopathic remedies, there are often much more successful outcomes, than with psychostimulants alone
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