What Do You Think Might Affect your Preschool Child with ADHD’s Behavior?

 

Do you think that your home routine affects your child’s behavior? Each and every person runs their home in a different way according to their own personality. Some people are very laid back and relaxed, so therefore, their child’s behavior has to be very obstructive to bother them. Other people are much more affected by even a small evidence of their child exhibiting socially inappropriate behavior and feel compelled to act upon it immediately. However you respond, your house should run based upon a specific routine that will hopefully result in more agreeable and appropriate behavior on the part of your child. Preschool children with ADHD crave order and a reliable routine so that they will know what is expected of them at all times. After an organized plan is executed, they will need some time to adjust to it, but in the long run, they will behave more appropriately in response to that predictable structure. This is true especially in consideration of the fact that the most typical characteristic of preschool children with ADHD is hyperactivity, which is anything but predictable. 

Preschool children with ADHD who are hyperactive need some stimulation to lock them into behaving in an appropriate way or to hyperfocus. Perhaps, depending on the child, receiving rewards or praise may stimulate a child so that he will behave in a more socially appropriate manner. That stimulation may come in many forms. I know that you may not think that my paradoxical logic makes sense. However, children who are hyperactive need stimulation to become calmer. 

I would, however, use selective praise so that the effect of the reward or praise does not lose its effect too quickly. Be careful about exactly which behavior you praise. Do not praise every behavior that your child exhibits that is positive. Try to praise effort as well. Preschool children with ADHD exhibit many annoying behaviors (as many parents have told me). What should you do when it comes to managing all of your preschool child with ADHD’s aggravating behavior? Tune in later…