[doganjo]

Have any of you thought of an acupuncture assessment session?  My pal, Sue May, is aChinese Medicine Practitioner and does Acupunture.  I'm sure I've heard her saying it can be used for behaviour problems as well as pain control.

[MiriMaran]

Forgot to say that his class assembly was phenomenally good - the teacher did an outstanding job.  Bearing in mind all the children are 5/6 yrs old they new exactly where to stand and where to move to, exactly what they were supposed to do and when and all their songs with really strong confident voices.  I was well impressed and thankfully Harry was imecably well behaved and said his line in a beautifully loud clear voice.  I was very proud.  He always has a way of pulling out all the stops when it counts.

Oliver has his class assembly next Friday - he's a Daddy lion!

Annie, yes I have, but as I've been finding out more Reiki and Cranial Osteopathy (is that what its called?) come out on top.  I haven't discounted Reiki or Acupuncture or anything really except for drugs!

[scattybiker1972]

the effects from reiki tend to creep up on you.there still changing me and i had my first treatment about 7 years ago..did my reiki 1 1 year ago and am starting to prepare for my level 2.
you might not notice much till a bit after theb full set of treatments.
it is life changing,but it does what it has to first.

[HappyHippy]

Hi Miri,
From everything I had read the crainial massage / osteopathy (sorry - spelling !) sounded the best - with instant results in a lot of cases. Especially if there was any kind of trauma or stress to the baby at the time of birth. I had really high hopes for it. Unfortunately it didn't have any effect on Kaitlin, but the reiki did. But hey - every child is different and I hope it does work for Harry. Like you, I'm prepared to try ANYTHING, apart from drugs ! (well, maybe some for me lol! ) I don't want to 'dope' my child, I'd rather have her the way she is as some quiet little thing who just sits about and may develop other problems due to the medication.
It's great that he got on so well at the assembly - I've been at some where I wished the ground would open up and swallow me because of how Kaitlin is 
But just at the point you're ready to throttle her, she turns round and say's 'I love you mummy, you're the best' cue melting heart and all thoughts of strangulation just vanish !
Keep us posted, Karen xxx

[MiriMaran]

Isn't it funny the way children know exactly whedn to go on the charm offensive!

I can relate to the embaressment at assemblies.  At Harry's Christmas play he kept threatening to stage dive and there was a teacher constantly near him just incase he did!

[scattybiker1972]

Isn't it funny the way children know exactly whedn to go on the charm offensive!

I can relate to the embaressment at assemblies.  At Harry's Christmas play he kept threatening to stage dive and there was a teacher constantly near him just incase he did!

hee hee .a few years ago the teachers sectioned off all the adhd kids for the christmas panto into one group with one teacher in chargre of them all.till their turns on the stage.she was frazzled.

[MiriMaran]

Hope she had some Valium with her!

Had the meeting at School to organise the Individual Education Plan.  Head and teacher both seem keen to do their best for him.  He has 2 targets 1. To follow instructions the first time he is asked to do it.  He needs to to do this 50 % of the time.  2.  To wait his turn in question and answer and group discussions and stop shouting out.  He needs to do this 5 times out of ten before the next IEP meeting in April.

To achieve the first one they are going to try and use key words and get Harry to repeat back the instruction and also try games like Simon Says.  For the second one, he will either be removed from the situation if ignoring doesn't work - I don't feel very confident with this one.  If he is removed he may play on that to get the one-to-one attention when he is removed and if he is ignored he will probably up the ante.  The IEP is a flexible plan so it can be adjusted as we work out what is best for Harry and presumably the Psychologist will be able to help in time.

I've now spoken to his Doctor to tell her she referred Harry to a Dept that doesn't deal with ADHD and he has now been referred to the Community Paediatrician so am now waiting for them to reply.

That's all the news so far!

[little blue]

All the best... give it time, but if its not working tell them!

[scattybiker1972]

hope you feel like its going somewhere.the relief when you feel that there not looking at you as if youre a bad parent was enormose i found.
good luck i hope it all helps.

[MiriMaran]

Thankfully so far I have never felt like the school are judging me.  However, I'm very good at judging myself very harshly!!