How To Cope With Symptoms Of Hyperactive Child

Being a parent you would definitely have felt exhausted, bewildered and also socially exhausting handling children that are hyperactive and have attention disorders. This is not to mean that normal children should not be active and excited, but hyperactivity presents its own peculiar symptoms. Lack of concentration is one of the most prominent symptoms of hyperactive children with them finding it difficult to concentrate and do one task for long whether it is play, homework, or even reading.
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Being extremely aggressive and unaware of any physical danger, it is quite common to find these children finding it difficult to relate to others around them accurately. They may turn very irritable and/aggressive with their playmates and also fight. It is also true that these children can be found to be doing anything daring that normal children would not do. Highly impulsive behavior born out of restlessness could make these children behave badly in social surroundings.

Parents like you would find these children seeking attention that could present itself as being very demanding in their behavior, coupled with emotional and intellectual immaturity. So it is quite common to find these children lag behind children of their age due to lack of concentration. Being forgetful and clumsy than most other children it is quite common to find boys suffer from hyperactivity more than girls.

Coping with symptoms of hyperactive child

Parents need not feel embarrassed and guilty of raising a badly behaved kid, for ADHD is a neurological problem, unless an unhappy home, school life or play group plays a role. You may be frustrated as a parent and may also get angry; however there is no use of getting angry and shouting at these children, for patience would go a long way to help them feel understood to cooperate with you. Talking in a quiet, slow and controlled voice helps to show your feelings without making the child feel he/she is not loved. In addition a negative approach with use of words like, Stop – Dont. No.is uncalled for in such children.

Routine has done wonders to anyones life to get focused and complete important tasks and this applies to routines for hyperactive children also. Creating and implementing a timetable for waking, eating, dressing, playing, watching TV, doing other chores like study and bedtime will act as a reassurance to follow it strictly with responsibility. Rewarding appropriate behavior periodically would help motivate ADHD children to cope up with ADHD symptoms. It is also true that giving responsibility enhances growth. Discussing mistakes calmly and a bit of supervision along with acceptance of efforts made would help keep up the improvements made.

Parents need to be definitely aware of and need to accept the limitations of their children that are afflicted with hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder. It is important to note that these children have a problem listening to and retaining information told to them, so it would be best to gather the childs attention before talking and communicating useful and important information.

Making the child to look at the parent before giving concise and clear instructions, consistent in discipline and rules helps. Strict discipline and rules is not what parenting of hyperactive and attention disorder kids is all about, it is also recognizing that these children perform better after a few minutes break, with this being best accomplished with allowing the child to use his/her excess energy with playing games, running about and doing physically demanding activities.

Last, but most important coping up with symptoms of hyperactive child requires patience, as this is a problem of the development of the brain being incomplete, so sparing the rod definitely helps for these children.