r/ADHDparenting

My granddaughter is almost 8 years old and her tics are beginning to be more noticeable. I am trying to be supportive and help her parents advocate for her in school as her dad, my son has Tourette’s and had a very hard time years ago. Right now her tics are the typical sniffing and throat clearing but also her body is starting to flinch as well as a chirping noise recently.

Also- if you as an adult with Tourette’s are comfortable sharing- what symptoms of Tourette’s are the most bothersome and what treatment if any are the most helpful?

Just wondering what everyone’s general routine is when it’s back to school time?

How much time do your kids need to get ready in the morning? What’s your biggest struggle and what has helped in any way to make it smoother?

Hi! I’m a Minnesota mom and I also co-own Ready Psych Go, a psychology practice in Minnetonka that does ADHD and other psychological assessments.

One thing I’ve noticed is how overwhelming the assessment process can feel for parents before they even get to the actual testing, figuring out where to start, what kind of evaluation their child needs, dealing with waitlists, understanding insurance, and then trying to make sense of the results afterward.

I’m curious about parents’ experiences here: what part of the process was the most confusing or frustrating for your family? And was there anything a provider did that made the whole experience feel easier or more supportive?

Not looking to promote services or send anyone anywhere, I’m genuinely interested in hearing what the process has been like from the parent side.

I just started my son (10, autism level 2 due to behaviours; independent and very verbal, average intelligence + severe ADHD + ODD) on the liquid formula. We started at a microdose of 1ml (regular starting dose is 4ml). I thought for a second I saw a change, but I don't think it's actually making any difference one way or the other at this point.

Our doctor told us to do 1ml for two weeks, then 2ml for 2 weeks, 3ml for two weeks, and then after SIX WEEKS finally start the regular starting dose.

I am getting impatient (but will continue following doctor's orders, of course) -- has anyone else been through this process? When do you start to see the actual impact of the medication?

He's also currently on Guanfacine which makes a tiny difference, but the irritability, impulsivity and general hyperactivity has been UNBEARABLE.

Can I add vocal stimming as an accommodation? Is this possible? This has been something my child has struggled to control all his life. Now that he’s in school. The amount of phone calls, emails , texts. They already have it on his his IEP he has adhd. If I can get his therapist, doctor to help document it.
Because right now they are punishing him for him and this is extremely frustrating.

I’ve been wondering if my 6 year old son has ADHD or if he’s just a really high energy kid. He’s always been active, but lately he’s always moving, talking, interrupting, and getting upset over little things.

Getting him ready for school is one of the hardest parts of our day. It’s not just that he doesn’t want to go. He has a hard time getting started in the morning. We have to remind him to get dressed, eat breakfast, and get his things ready. He gets distracted before he finishes one thing. Sometimes I tell him not to do something and he does it again a minute later. I know some of this can be normal for a 6 year old, but it happens almost every day and it’s made me wonder about ADHD.

This morning he woke up early and came into our room asking questions and telling me to get up. I told him I was tired and wanted a few more minutes, but he kept coming back and getting louder. Then he started kicking things in the room. I told him to stop but he kept going. I tried to calm him down and he got even more upset.

It’s the same at night. Even when he’s tired, he has a hard time settling down. He gets out of bed, asks for things, or keeps talking. We can spend a long time trying to get him to sleep.

We’ve tried a lot of things. Sometimes we play bedtime stories from Calm or put on quiet audio. He has a Harkla weighted blanket and his favorite stuffed animals by his bed. Lately we’ve also been using a Pococo star projector and keeping the room dark so he has something quiet to look at before bed. Sometimes it helps him settle down, but not every night.

He’s smart and very social. He has friends, likes playing with them, and can be really sweet. That’s why I keep wondering if this is just how he is or if something else is going on.

At what point did you decide to get your child evaluated? I’m worried I’m overthinking it, but I don’t want to ignore something that might be affecting him.

My daughter is diagnosed ADHD, Dyslexia, Anxiety and Slow Processing. We have tried every stimulant under the sun. They all make her full of rage. We have also tried practically all the anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications. Sometimes they'll work for a few months and then we're back to rage. It seems we're always trying something, adjusting, then titrating down over and over again. She masks at school, but once she's home, she unleashes the beast. Even when she's at different summer camps that she loves, the same thing happens.

She has been evaluated twice for ASD, both times evaluators say she doesn't "check all of the boxes". Has anyone else dealt with this? It feels so hopeless, all we want is for her to be a happy kid. It's so hard to see her struggling and for so long.

I should also mention we have tried ADHD training, play therapy, talk therapy, and art therapy. We're currently in weekly family therapy. She will soon hopefully have her own separate therapist.

Anyone else in the same boat?

My son is almost 13 and just started 8th grade. He was diagnosed with ADHD (mixed presentation) over the summer and I’m trying to begin the 504 process to get him accommodations.

The team that evaluated him provided a list of accommodations that would likely help him. Stuff like breaking large projects into a smaller series of assignments, taking tests in a distraction-free zone, not having time limits on tests, getting materials from the teacher to supplement note-taking, and that sort of thing. He is extremely resistant to getting accommodations because “he doesn’t need them.”

He started getting into trouble and refusing to do schoolwork around 4th grade. At that time, his teacher suggested he may have autism, which surprised me, because I was never concerned about that. We had him evaluated and they ruled out autism. They said he had some inattentiveness but not rising to the level of ADHD and to return if it became worse.

Cut to 7th grade and he started getting into lots of trouble—for not staying seated and talking all the time despite repeated redirection, for leaving class without permission, for pushing a chair down 3 flights of stairs, for using a classmate’s asthma inhaler to be funny, etc. The only explanations he could ever provide made it sound like he just had no impulse control and never thought stuff through in the least before doing it. That’s what prompted the re-evaluation and diagnosis.

We haven’t gotten much guidance beyond suggested accommodations. No one has suggested medication. I’m just curious how others have helped an older kids come around to accommodations. My son is extremely intelligent but gets Ds and Cs and occasionally a B. He’s an avid reader, extremely creative and talented artist, loves learning instruments, and even does fairly well on standardized tests. I’ve tried explaining that he’s so smart he could easily get straight As and have tons of opportunities before him. That his brain works differently and accommodations would open that door for him.

He is very popular and socially conscious, so I think a part of his resistance is not wanting to seem “different” in front of his peers. I just worry that his getting into trouble will continue to escalate and become more serious stuff. He got suspended four times last year and with one of the incidents, he was extremely close to expulsion (being transferred to the disciplinary campus for our public school system). At the same time, all the accommodations are about academic stuff, which I do think would help, but also doesn’t really address the behavioral stuff.

His dad definitely relates to the stuff our son gets in trouble for, and if he had grown up in the United States and not a developing country, I’m sure he would have gotten an ADHD diagnosis very young. And he did have a lot of behavioral and substance issues as a teen, that he was able to pull himself out of in his 20s and now leads a pretty calm and productive life. I just worry we’re at an age where things could start getting bad and out of control very quickly.

My kid recently started on methylphenidate, and has been experiencing stomachaches and headaches since. I’m assuming it’s medication related. We’ve tried getting her to eat and drink more with the pill but she hasn’t had much of an appetite. We have a follow up next week and I plan to bring it up but was curious what anyone else has done that’s reduced these side effects.

Looking for advice here regarding the above. Sorry in advance for a long post.

My 15yo stepdaughter was diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive) a little over a year ago (basically the summer before 9th grade). To provide a little background on her schooling, she attended private Christian schools with very small classroom sizes (like 12-15 max) from K-8th. I’ve been in her life since she was 3 1/2 but was not really very involved in making decisions surrounding her education until she came to live with me and my husband/her father full time at age 13.

Strangely I’m the only one in her family that ever picked up on the thought that she may be ADHD (from a young age, at that) and took the initiative to have her tested (relevant, I believe, to add here that she was completely on board with the testing, and by this point had already been in treatment for a year and a half with a psychiatrist for depression and anxiety as well, which she brought to my attention upon asking to try therapy a couple of years ago).

We are very close, she calls me her mom, and she jokes to me a lot about how I “keep her in line” lol. By that she just means that I support her, I am there for her, and I have always been the one to aid her in pursuing care for her various mental health issues. It also, however, speaks to the fact that I stay on her about (among other things) her assignments and her grades, minimize her distractions by employing strict rules around screens at home/before bed/etc. and just generally help her remember things using various systems around the house like a family calendar, checklists, white boards, etc.

Overall she’s a pretty good student and always has been. She was one of those kids that kind of coasted through elementary school and up until 7th grade, which was the first time she ever struggled in class. Her grades dropped from straight A’s to low B’s/C’s in her problem subjects (mainly science and math) and by 8th grade she was failing a couple of classes. The toughest part was that she had kind of always managed her schoolwork herself, there was very little that we ever had to involve ourselves in so it came as a surprise when all of a sudden she was bringing home these lower report cards. Neither she nor any of her teachers had given us any kind of indication that she was suffering. I obviously involved myself at this point and spoke with her teachers and worked with her to bring all of her grades up to at least passing by the end of her 8th grade year.

Last year, 9th grade, was her first year in public school. She transitioned pretty well and she was happy but her grades were still an issue. But now, I all of a sudden had access to all of this grade and assignment reporting for parents on school apps that public schools use which had never been at our disposal before. Throughout the year I would login and check it periodically (this is also how we viewed progress reports and report cards—physical ones were not sent home—but I logged in probably once a week). Each time I did, I would follow up with her about missing assignments I saw and question her when I saw concerning assignment/exam grades. She was also on the freshman volleyball team which was demanding and so I was concerned from the perspective of balancing athletics and academics as well. There were multiple times throughout the year where she had a failing grade in a class, and I was genuinely concerned that had I not intervened it would have stayed that way. I love her and I know she struggles with keeping up with these things, prioritization, etc. Her absolute biggest struggle is executive functioning.

As it ended up, she finished 9th grade with all passing grades (some just barely but still). The school she was attending did not end up being a great fit so she is now elsewhere for 10th grade. We are one week into school and I really do not want to micromanage her again this year the way I did last year, for several reasons. First of all, she’s almost 16 and I don’t want to continue to hold her hand and prohibit her from learning some of this on her own. Second of all, I’m 36 weeks pregnant with her third sibling and just have a lot on my plate, so although I of course plan on being there to support her and advocate for her as needed, I really want her to get to a place where I can trust that she is turning in all of her assignments and managing her own workload using these same tools that she has at her disposal.

For the record, none of this would blindside her; we had multiple conversations over the summer about how I intend to take a step back this year and stop micromanaging her schoolwork and how I want her to take more initiative with logging into these portals daily, checking what is due, turning things in on time, establishing systems for herself based on what I and her psychologist taught her, and conferring with her teachers as needed. The school she is attending now, which she asked us to transfer to for 10th grade, is more challenging than the school she attended last year. It is the top high school in the district. Her personality is definitely such that she thrives more in an environment where more is expected of her; she likes to be challenged and that is the main reason she transferred schools. She is highly ambitious, and all of her peers at her old school were very lackadaisical about grades and graduation. She spent 90% of her day on a Chromebook versus receiving actual stimulating instruction and her teachers were not very challenging or responsive in their styles.

I want to think in this new environment that she will do better, but I guess what I need advice on without being any more long-winded is: how much do you expect to handhold or micromanage academics with your older ADHD children? I know logically that she needs to obtain these skills before she is truly out on her own in college and I can no longer help her, however I also don’t want to see her fail, so what lines have you drawn that have been successful for you and your child at this age?

FYI she does have a 504 plan and accommodations in place and she is medicated for both anxiety and ADHD.

Thank you!

Today with the first day of kindergarten and he didn’t even make it through the half day. He spent most of the day in the office because he wanted play doh and couldn’t have it. So apparently he was kicking, hitting, and throwing.

Trying to keep things concise:
5 year old, confirmed ADHD. No meds yet.
Emotional control is his toughest battle. He is impatient and wants immediate gratification. If he doesn’t get what he wants, the reaction is over the top.
Behaviors: saying angry things (I hate you!), kicking, yelling, throwing things, running from the classroom.
We’ve had an IEP in place for two years with speech, OT, and social emotional development. He started a half day program with family services to help with social emotional development in July.
Current plan is kindergarten in the morning and ECIP program in the afternoon. We’re at a private school but have good support from the neighboring public school.

I know I need to not panic after one day, but it’s hard not to compare him to the other children who are happily enjoying their first school day.

What happens if he can’t control his behavior? What comes next? Public school is of course an option but what can they do differently? He’s easily influenced so it’s clear that he’s picked up some behaviors from the other kids at ECIP. If he’s in a behavioral classroom, could that get worse?

My heart is just broken and I need someone - ANYONE - to tell me what it’s like on the other side of this. Please. Being a special needs parent can be so lonely sometimes because unless you’ve lived it, you can’t understand it.

My 6yo son has taken to sensory seeking at bedtime by pulling all the stuffing out of stuffed animals, poking holes in the drywall with whatever he can find, or tearing up his Pokémon magazines. He’s usually sad after, and I can tell that in the moment he’s doing it he isn’t thinking about it, just scratching that itch. We’ve tried silicone pop-its and various 3D printed fidgets, but they’re usually broken pretty quickly. His favorite thing is picking at stuff (he likes picky pads during the day, but I know the beads would end up scattered through the room). I’m looking for fidget recs that might hold up for a little bit longer than pop-its or conventional plastic ones. Or if you have any ideas to help him entertain himself until he falls asleep, I would appreciate it! This is a recent issue, he used to fall asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow.

I’m not sure this is the right place, but I figured it might be a good starting point. I‘m hoping to find help for improving my son’s writing and story-telling skills, because I want to set him up for success in the future - I don’t care who he becomes so long as he is kind and happy, but everyone needs to be able to narrate to some extent.

Did your 2e (ADHD + profound giftedness) elementary schooler struggle with this? What helped? Really looking forward ideas for home support to bolster the skill rather than academic supports at school via 504/IEP, etc. He has those.

My goal is just that he become more fluent in writing, internalizes the basic “formulas” for writing, so that it becomes faster for him. My reasoning is that he thinks fast, so the structure/formula with writing needs to come automatically. At least, one of his complaint is that his thoughts are so much faster than his hands.

The thing that’s helped him the most has been daily practice: Over the summer, we’ve made him keep a journal (he can and does write whatever, we supervise just to make sure he’s actually doing it) where he writes five sentences in it every day. He’s gotten faster and more focused, but I’m not sure he’s getting the structure of different sentence formulations.

He uses graphic organizers for research assignments, and we’re okay with him using speech-to-text software for longer assignments when that time eventually comes. Whatever helps him. But is there anything else we should do at home to help support this skill development? Kinda like how people recommend reading with their kids at least 20 minutes a day?

He really struggles with putting pen to page to write: It’s boring, he knows it’s his intellectual weakness but thinks he will never get better, he believes I’m a genius at it and he‘ll never live up to my standards (my husband put the idea into his head, in a really over-the-top way, and now my son thinks I never had to work at it or never struggled with it and that is so far from the truth but he doesn’t believe me, also he’s 8 so I don’t have high expectations) and he generally struggles with fiction. So, he takes the easy way out with free writing assignments- his journal during school last year was just “I had fun” over and over again. By the end of the year, he only wrote “fun” but would get up and tell detailed stories to the class about what he was faked writing in the journal.

Newbie here. 17 yo daughter (high school senior) was just officially diagnosed recently. She will begin medication next week, and we are connecting with CBT therapist to begin soon. I am digging into research seeking to understand and to also see how I can best support.

I am eager to get some structures and systems in place at home to support in any way I can. But so far, so many tips seem to be focused on younger kids. Ex. It’s hard to allow for task mirroring when she won’t even come out of her room to see what I’m doing.

I know have lots to learn but in the meantime I thought I’d check in with parents of older teens to get some good tips.

Thanks in advance!

I’m looking for advice. We suspect our 5-year old (just turned 5 in July) has ADHD because 1. My husband has it. 2. She checks the boxes on a lot of ADHD symptoms.

Of course we cannot get her tested yet because there is a giant wait list for 5-year olds and it is very hard to diagnose at a young age. This has all been discussed with her pediatricians. What tipped us off that she might have ADHD is that we have been having pottying issues since she has been potty-trained…still having “accidents” going into kindergarten this fall.

But that is not why I’m writing this post. My husband and I are both struggling on getting her to listen or do simple tasks without a tantrum. Somedays - she will do things we ask no problem. Other times, it is a giant barrier and we do not know what to do.

For example.; This morning we asked our daughter to put her plate in the sink after her breakfast - she simply refused. She went over to the couch, said “no” and the reason was she was “too tired.” This was a whole ordeal. We calmly explained how quick it would be to put the plate in the sink and it is something we do every day. Our child then began crying and throwing a tantrum.

It was just a constant back and forth. It felt like such a large battle for something so small. We recognize in ADHD there is the task mirroring (or whatever it’s called) where a task can be hard to start.

I am beside myself and do not know what to do in these situations and neither does my husband. We’ve tried talking calmly/explaining, demonstrating, and also consequences.

I ended up carrying her over to the table. I picked up the plate and then I carried her over to the sink so we did it together- however she fought me the whole time.

I don’t know if it was the right thing to do but we cannot keep doing this push and pull for things like this. It feels like a power struggle. She is a great kid and not a brat…but has these types of moments that make us question our parenting. I have a lot to learn and so does my husband and we obviously can’t make any plans until she gets an official diagnosis.

Any advice is appreciated. I’m very new to this and have a lot to learn.

Hi all,

My wife and I have two absolutely lovely daughters, ages four and two years old. We are currently in a rough spot in our relationship. We just stopped an argument where I couldn’t answer if I wanted to continue our marriage.

For context:
I believe I have been a bit damaged from the particularly difficult years after our first was born. My wife became extremely critical of me. I was in a constant walking on eggshells state. After my patients and compassion had been surpassed, my primary defense was to either say nothing at all and become a brick wall for her to yell at or I would deflect and blame. Postpartum mental health was really hard on her. I came to the points countless times where I felt I couldn’t take anymore. Thankfully I had a great therapist and psychiatrist and a rewarding job as outlets that help carry me through. I worked a lot on my own shame and betting myself up. I worked on not deflecting and fighting my urge to shut down.
My wife has done quite a bit of her own work on herself. She has made notable progress on being critical and allowing her anxiety to dictate things. We are now at yet another stressful life transition. Changed insurance so I no longer have my therapist, we recently moved, she is starting her job, the girls just started school, and I am still looking for a job as of April.

The issue:
When she is frustrated or critical of me I can’t seem to get past my defense of shutting down or deflecting.
I also don’t or refrain from communicating my feelings or thoughts. This is because I either just don’t think to do it or I refrain as I want to keep the peace. However, she wants me to communicate more. I think I feel fear of more criticism and communication of my thoughts and feelings makes me more vulnerable to criticism that will hurt even more. For some reason the word trust comes to my mind a lot when I think of this. I don’t trust her anymore with my thoughts or feelings and I don’t trust if I do become vulnerable that we will resolve or at least argue in a healthy way.
I don’t know if I couldn’t answer her if I wanted to stay in the relationship because I actually don’t and I and scared to admit that or if I am just at yet another rough place and need to just continue to work on these things. I am honestly miserable in many ways but genuinely happy in other ways.

I want to heal and restore trust but I feel a bit trapped. If anyone felt similar to me and came out the other end together in a happy relationship how did you do it? How do I heal? Is there anything anyone thinks I might be missing? Any advice or suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

I guess I’m looking for advice on how to deal with lying and maybe how to channel that quick thinking into a healthier way? 

My son is sooo quick to make absolutely nonsense up that it’s almost scary. It is usually a situation if it’s him trying to not being in trouble but other times it’s just like he’s trying to fit in and be a know it all.

He will out of nowhere come into another room or butt into other people’s conversations with random “facts” but they’re just stuff he’s come up with in his head and could give an hour long discussion on what he’s saying and probably fight you to the death if you challenged it. 

Usually it’s just petty and he’s running his mouth to run it and we can just let it go and that’s that but it can get exhausting and it has hindered a lot of relationships with friends for him sadly. 

For example… He will out of nowhere start making up a story about when his school building was built and did you know there used to be five of them at a time and they had a rule there were only 50 kids allowed in it at a time just a couple years ago. None of that is true. 

A couple of his friends might be discussing something that happened at their baseball game the night before and will start arguing what really happened was… and he wasn’t even there! Didn’t even know there was a game, knew nothing about it. 

The building where the kids catch the bus during school days had caught on fire briefly and he was up there arguing with the owner’s son about what happened and until we even got up there he didn’t even know an incident had happened. And what he was going off about wasn’t even remotely close to the situation that had occurred. 

He drives his sister bonkers because he loves to go stand in the doorway of her room and start in on stuff she likes… so he will take a game she plays and start in going did you know the real creator of this game is so and so… and they aren’t did you know the official release date for the next game was announced and it’s not for a whole eight more years… this isn’t a thing. 

Up until a couple years ago Walmart banned carrots! You could get any other veggie but carrots you couldn’t, this is because the owners were allergic, so all the stores worldwide just couldn’t sell carrots. 

Like… What are we doing here bud. 

If it’s him trying to just get out of trouble it is especially annoying how quick he is with it. 

I went to remind him he needed to do some of his study material for a hunting course he asked to do because his testing date is upcoming. His angry response not but a couple seconds later was he can’t because the tab on his laptop closed and it’s a one time use so he can’t ever go back to it. 

Not a thing and is something he knows because he’s gotten off and on there dozens of times. 

I explain how he can get back into though, he can look up the website or go into his emails for the direct link. I don’t even finish what I’m saying and he’s telling me the website is gone, it’s down, it’s not there anymore. It’s been removed, he’s checked. 

It’s there. 

He also can’t use his email because if he goes on his phone and logs in it’s there but if he goes into that same account on his laptop then he doesn’t have the same messages. 

Okay, let’s log in and see what’s going on then mmmk. So we get to his email and lo and behold there’s the email. But of course he starts going on about well it wasn’t earlier and he was real confused about that. 

Cool. You can now get the email, click the link and go… 

But he can’t because he doesn’t know his password and you only get one password and it has no way of doing a forgot password set up. He’s automatically logged in as soon as we click the link but even if you go to the sign in, whoops, there’s the forgot username/password bits. 

These type of interactions usually are harder for me because I feel like it escalates unless I just talk away because his brain is on “go” and we have to try and attempt to come back later. 

I feel like it’s so smart and creative how he could probably hold a class discussing some made up type of fish or wildly tell a tale of how some random YouTuber got kidnapped and how that played out or whatever but it’s all also concerning on the other hand. 

So our school district has before car/after care that also provides summer care. There are 2 main providers we'll call them A and B. My daughter goes to Eagle School, but Summer Care is at Beaver School.

Both Miss A and B seem to have a serious disliking toward my child due to her... sometimes rigid behaviors. When my daughter (6, medicated, 20mg methylphenidate ER, afternoon booster 2.5) has a change in schedule, her brain goes haywire for a minute.

They know this, they have been aware from the beginning.

Eagle School is a school that all the higher special needs go to because the Beaver school gets zero funding for Special Education, so my daughter was evaluated at the Beaver school and incorrectly deemed too high of Special seeds to go there, she's since been reevaluate, and thankfully can stay at the Eagle School. She literally only has a tough time after periods of change.

We recently went on vacation so she didn't go to summer care, was on a whole different schedule. When we got back, she got sick, so we kept her home a few days. When we took her back, within 20 minutes of dropping her off, Miss A called and said we had to pick her up, then summer care was closed for a day, thst brings us to today, again, within 20 minutes of dropping her off, Miss A calls and says we have to pick her up.

Miss A says that my child is "mean" to her, but everyone else the works there says her behavior is fine, with minor blips. Today, Miss A said that my child threw a tantrum and then when she tried to tell her to go sit and calm down, my child kicked bark chips at her, so she's suspended for the week. If similar happens, she'll be suspended for 2 weeks.

Before we went on our trip, we had no issues, they know she takes a while to readjust.

I feel like we work so hard to have her not feel like a bad kid, none of her behavior is out of line according to other people at Sunmer Care, I truly feel like Miss A is exaggerating her behavior. The problem is that Miss B also dislikes my child, and she's the director of the program, Miss As supervisor.

I'm at a loss of what to do. When school starts, we were hoping to utilize before school care 2 hrs a week. I'm going to talk to her Special Ed program to see if we can get her Para Assistance in the AM for it, but i dont know if a 504 or IEP would cover accommodations for before school/after school care?

I'm so frustrated and mad and sad. She doesnt have these behaviors with anyone else. And we can work to change things but they're unwilling to work with her or show any empathy or willingness.

Idk what I'm looking for here. When her behavior gets like this I feel like it skyrocket my anxiety. She's not a bad kid. She's so sweet. Her medication has been great. So idk what to do.

My 8Year old son who is ADHD, asd with pda profile does not brush his teeth, its got to the point that he needs a baby molar pulled out, and has 4 cavities. Ive tried all different methods for teeth brushing. He even has an occupational therapist that comes to our house at 745am fortnightly to help with tooth brushing .

He refuses to have has concerta at home so they give it to him once we get to school.

Im so worried about his teeth. He has an oral B electric toothbrush, he wont use manual.

He is being referred to dental specialist to be put under as he wouldn't co operate in the chair.

Any advice for teeth brushing is welcome 🙏