concentracion | ADHD Information

tHIS GRADE SYSTEM SHOULD BE DONE AWAY WITH ALTOGETHER. LET'S PUT KIDS IN MY WHAT WORK THEY CAN DO IN EACH SUBJECT.

MAMIE YOUR SOUNDS LIKE MINE. GET AND TRY THE STUFF i SUGGEST THEY HELPED OUR SON A LOT. YOU CAN FIND THESE ON EBAY CHEAPER. THEY LISTEN  OR WATCH THESE WHILE EATING.

DON'T NOCK THIS TILL YOU TRY THEM FIRST!

A big tip off showing more conclusive evidence of ds' adhd was the remarkable difference in focus when he took Sudafed (a stimulant) for a cold.  He was like a different child said his teacher. Do antihistamines effect anyones kids here? My lord it makes our son worse. He isn't allergic just sensative I guess. RN

hey mami - i was curious as to what specifically you were referring to with the concentration.

concentration on school work might also be affected by having had a negative past experiences --- due to the ADHD for example.

so whether it seems she does not want to concentrate now because she associates school-work with an unhappy result (feeling inadequate, letting people down, frustration of 'not getting it', tension, parental unhappiness/disapproval etc. etc.) and has developed a sort of Pavlovian reaction of just not wanting to go there - full stop.  a coping mechanism to protect her emotional well-being and self esteem.

or whether she seems happy enough with it all just her focus wanders off all the time...?

 

"or whether she seems happy enough with it all just her focus wanders off all the time...?"

Yeah thats it. She can not focus on anything but carttons.

And we have a big problem - she just can not learn multiple and divade tables, but she learns songs, and english lesson/which is her favorite subject/ in a blink. Try everything/ listen, write, but...

Since last night, DD has been confirmed ADHD.

For few last month I gave her fish oil, zinc, B complex, lemon balm.

It all help her be more calm but nothing works for concetracion.

Is it same with you?

Try have your child listen to Classical  music it does help calming the ears.

Mammie: get Math made easy videos or Math you see audio tape it is the facts by song. I hope these 2 ideas help. Math facts are learned by lots of repetition. These are 2 programs I know homeschool Moms have used for their kids.

i think oldtimer suggestions are great.  i also remember learning my maths times table (at aged 5 or 6 - not sure how old your child is?) but we did learn it by rote and almost in song...

one ones are one
two ones are two
three ones are three

right up to twelve twelves are  144.

but it had a singsong tune to sorta go along with it.  and it obviously stuck in my head because even now you can throw out a "what are 9  5s or 7 x 6" and i can answer in a split second. 

but that comes from all those board rubbers that got thrown at our heads if we took longer than 15 seconds to answer the question - though!   actually the boys got the board rubbers and the girls only tended normally to get the chalk (phew) because the board rubbers REALLY hurt when they hit!

how old is your child?  it's great that she is learning the other subjects so well and easily.  mathematics can be a tough concept to grasp - and i guess if the whole things is making no sense to her it might cause her concentration to wander off...  there is nothing like success as motivation and comprehension for focus.  perhaps you could bring it down a whole level to increase her confidence again --- starting with the easy stuff she already knows? 

i mean i can focus and listen to someone speaking English but if they are going to talk to me in Hindi then my concentration is gonna wander after the first five minutes because i just don't understand what they are saying!

but children do learn at different rates --- i do remember being at the top of our times table tree (which was a big paper thing stuck to the classroom wall) when my BEST friend was still only on her two times tables and i remember thinking even then, aged 5, how much i hated that sense of someone having to be on the bottom and another person at the top --- and i know she felt it badly too.  she felt stupid. 

schooling was so harsh then (only 20 - 30 years ago) - so weird.

i always have hated that competitive, judging element in life/schooling/everything.  i never changed my opinion on it --- i was anti the competitiveness then (despite it working in my favour and getting books and prizes for being top of the class) and remained so - never grew up i guess, typical ADDer.

not sure what will help with the focus so much... she may just grow into it????  but there is lots of info on this site --- hope others post with what helped their children.

good luck.

There is no such video or songs here. I tried before to sing tables on my own but it sounded teribble, we have never tried that again.

And she is no competitive girl. She just dont care what anybody thinks about her. Yeah, I know that would be great for her when she grow up to dont care about, but it is so hard now to motivate her to do anything couse just she dont care about reward or punishment. Except one: We used to have terrible morning about dressing, washing...I tried everything .

Two weeks ago, I made another morning chart and the reward for every morning is, lets say, 50 cents. I know its not great idea to link reward- money, but IT WORKS.

Each morning I just have to say track the chart or you want get your money, wow you have to see her eating her breakfast in a blink/ half an hour/ and before she ate for hour and half and never finished meal. 

I know that probably wouldnt last for long time, but each morning without arguing is reward for me.