[QUOTE=Gutsy]How old is your son, Loner Girl? Both of my kids, 9 and 6, to some extent, go "Mommy?", I go "Yes?" and they go "Mommy", again, and sometimes I just end up saying "WHAAATT?!?"[/QUOTE]
LOL. This sounds like the conversations I have with my son. He just turned 7. Everytime he takes a breath he'll say 'Mom'. I guess to make sure I'm still paying attention. Sometimes I don't respond. I'll just perk up my ears. I forget that he needs that auditory cue before he will speak.
"Mom"
"What?"
"I just beat the 8th level on this game."
"That's great."
"Mom"
"What?"
"I just unlocked a character."
"You did. That's great."
"Mom"
"What, J, what? You don't have to keep saying my name. I hear you!"
"Mom"
"Whaaaaaat!"
Our conversations are always like this. Maybe it's just an ADHD thing, but I don't recall ever being this way as a kid.
both my kids do this, the one who has ADHD and the one who doesnt/ Three times today I told them I was changing my name to DAD .
a 5 year old dx w/ ADD and Adhd is delayed socially? I'm sorry but they all look so delayed to me. Crying about this or that, hitting, screaming, fighting, arguing, bossying. At this age, aren't the all so egocentric?
Thanks to all.
We first began suspecting my son had ADHD when his friends turned 6 and 7 and started leaving that behaviour behind. By the time he had turned 8, he still acted like a five year old, and still wanted to play with five year olds.
this is partly why a lot of diagnosis do not happen before age 7. The range of "normal behavior" is HUGE before this.Most of the kids do tend to be behind socially my girl likes younger kids herself. And no I cannot explain it to you. How old is your son, Loner Girl? Both of my kids, 9 and 6, to some extent, go "Mommy?", I go "Yes?" and they go "Mommy", again, and sometimes I just end up saying "WHAAATT?!?"All 5 year old children are pretty impulsive and have limited self control. They do have enough self control though to be able to differentiate between these kids and kids who a significant delay in this. It is for this reason that a reasonably reliable diagnosis of ADHD can be made at this age. Below that it takes a fairly severe case to consider a diagnosis. I have seen some diagnosed as low as age three,but they were really of control and rather rare. If you have someone who really knows their stuff, then you will see few ADHD dx at this age. Also keep in mind that a diagnosis of ADHD for a 3 year old should be seen as tentative and , for a number of reasons, should be reevaluated somewhere around the age of 5 or 6. So you are right in that all kids this age show some of the symptoms but keep in mind that all kids show symptoms of ADHD. For the most part there is nothing broken, nothing wrong with these kids. It is a genetically based developmental delay. When they show symptoms at roughly the 93rd percentile and up that ADHD as a disorder can be considered.
Answers with ADHD kids are never easy nor simple.
Dizfriz
I know it does sound silly, but you might ask specifically what the delay is. I was tol when my son was in preschool and he was younger than 5, that he was socially delayed. And once they explained to me what they meant by that I totally understood...
Most children when they want to speak to someone will say, "John, did you see my new toy?"
My son simply would say at random, "Did you see my new toy?" And he would expect the person he was speaking to to respond to him, even though he never actually got his attention. And when that person didn't respond he would get frustrated. I never caught this when we were at home, but if he said it aloud my guess was he was speaking to me.
The school worked with him twice a week and he is just fine now. As a matter of fact, too fine. I am also complaining now that he says my name over and over and over. I tell him if we are engaged in a conversation and I'm the only person here you do not need to say Mom over and over.