Your Top Tips And Success Stories (Children)

The following are contributions received from other parents.

• Doing a Heslop
• Tips on getting kids to sleep and keeping them asleep
• Home Schooling Tips
• ADD/ADHD is Real and it is not an excuse
• We tell him that he is not alone
• ...one of the first things we noticed was the forgetfulness
• WOW what a difference
• My wife and I are so happy it was like winning the pools
• I am so proud......
• Success on ritalin
• Thank you VERY VERY much
• Success with Adderall
• Rewards are important
• COFFEE... works almost as good as ritalin
• Good news for children with a lactose intolerance who couldn't take Ritalin
• I have some theories about ADHD of my own, and have some methods of working with kids who have this.
• He is now 14 years old and is classed as a "brilliant poet, artist and student".
• Junior Girl Scout with ADHD, has just authored her first book.
• Now Success at School.
• Ritalin Does Work.
• Anecdotes from a mother with a 9 year old adhd son.
• In a band and just releasing our first cd.
• He has succeeded.
• "I didn't think that I'd make it through my GCSEs but I did"
• "Thanks"
• "Its as if I have been given my son back"

Doing a Heslop -

I was reading your Dad's Tips on Friday and sniggering over the "Doing a Heslop", particularly as the cable T.V. here is doing a re-run of "Porridge". Later on that day, my six year old ADD wonderful daughter Anna and I were walking home from her ADD best friend's house where they had been rampaging around happily for an hour or so. By then she was throwing a huge wobbly, sobbing and screaming at the top of her lungs, "I don't want to go home!", etc., etc. Bear in mind that this is in China!! People walking past were looking at me as if I was The Cruellest Mother In The Entire World....What could I do? I did a Heslop! I couldn't actually think of any change of subject, my mind was blotted out by her wails of despair, the humidity and high temperature, the glares of passers by. So I casually remarked, "My mother went to Sidcup!".

Stunned silence from Anna. I went on to wax lyrically about Sidcup for several minutes, enough to get us almost home before she cottoned on and got back to her favourite subject again, namely the desire not to go home...

So, thankyou! Here in the crowded and polluted and alien streets of Taipei, you were firmly blessed and thanked for your helpful tip which reduced me to giggles amid the terrible tantrum that was going on by my side. Ten minutes later, she was transformed into an angelic child (almost) by the administration of vast quantities of food.
Hurrah! Porridge is on tonight!
By the way, I really enjoy your web site.
Greetings and thanks from the Far East.

Judith, Taipei, Taiwan.