ADHD, and keeping your sanity.
Our plight with having a child with ADHD started early. His personality and way of being started when he was just months old. Aiden was absolutely never capable of sitting still, and he liked certain things in a certain order or way. As a toddler, he was curious, and he was absolutely having his terrible twos as soon as he could walk. He would throw tantrums, and often, for no apparent reason. When he was a baby, he could not communicate, and I feel like this frustrated him. He was very quick to talk and very quick to walk. As a mother, I would feel exhausted and often, like I was fighting my own child. Thankfully, that phase passed. Yet, his strong personality is still there. He is demanding, loud, controlling, manipulative and extremely intelligent. In fact, if I wasn't his mother, I would think that I had just typed an incredible negative sentence. But, it is true. Aiden is just as great as he is difficult to deal with. He is never the first kid to try something that looks "