Good morning sisters. My 6 year old daughter has recently been diagnosed with ADHD. I was wondering if anyone would mind sharing any tips on how to manage day to day smoothly? Especially when it comes to stopping younger siblings mimicking bad behaviour. I am curious how other mums and dads are doing as it is not easy.
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No it isn't easy, it can be a real pain and make you dread going to the shops. My husband has very high functioning ADHD and still is a major pain in shops. I set tasks for him to keep him distracted and busy at all times. If you need apples, get her to count out how many you need. Give her her own basket with a shopping list and make it into a game for her to find what she needs each aisle you go down (rather than tell her where it is, so make them harder things at times that she needs to search for).
My son who is 11 tomrrow wsa diagnosed at the same age. I have a older daughter and a younger son. We have rules in place - time out has worked well, if he gets worked up and something happens its his 10mins to cool off and then we try again. I found that routine was the best thing - if we do something 1 day its the same every day - ie bed time.
Make sure that the school know what is happening as well - that helped us a lot too.
I make sure any tasks are easy to understand - simple steps that he can follow and sometimes ones that he can help his little brother with too.
Good luck - i know where you are coming from