HELP, my 13yr old son has mild ADHD. He is taking meds. we are constantly reminding and constantly trying to modify his behavoir. He is sneaking food just like he has always done. We have tried everything we know to get him to stop. He just gets sneakyer about it. He has a compusion to get into anything with sugar in it. Is this typical? He forgets things all the time even with notes all over the house reminding him. Somehow he can rememer everything about soccer but not about his personal chores or school books. He went through 40.00 in two weeks at school buying the snacks that he knows he is not allowed to buy so now he has to take his lunch to school again. I am frstrated and worn out. We have four other children, one of whom has mild mr, and none of them require as much from as he does. Please Help with Any advice!
Thanks for reading,
Theresa

By Tarable on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 03:11 pm:

Are you talking about my 11 year old.. I haven't even read your post yet... just the title sounds like her... I don't know what to tell you but that I am another mom of a child with ADHD and she does the same thing. She can remember anything that is to her benefit but not to do her homework or anything around the house I ask her to do.

The only thing that I can suggest is to make sure he has plenty of snacks that are healthy (I know my dd definately would rather eat junk but if I offer her fruit or something she will eat it just as quickly) and talk to the teachers so they know he can't have all those sugary snacks at school.

Good luck and I hope I helped.

By Mamaoffive on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 09:32 am:

Thank you so much for replying. It helps just to hear from someone who can empathize. I have replaced the cookies with peanuts and I always have fruit around. He is still finding the little suckers I keep for his toddler sister (potty treats) and I still find fruit peels in his bed. I don't understand why he takes it to bed and then just leaves the trash in his bed?! He also has bed wetting almost every night. There must be some neurological problem. we are still waiting for an appointment with the pediatric neuralogist. we shall see.... thanks again and good luck with your daughter!! I worry so much over his future, he seems only worried about what he wants right now.... I could go on for days. anyway- thanks for your post!!!

By Crystal915 on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 02:34 pm:

OMG... this sounds so much like my almost 6 year old daughter. She gets up in the middle of the night and steals food from the kitchen, even takes the Splenda Sugar bland from my baking stuff and pours it over things to get more sugar. She will also eat things like an entire box of Cheez-its. She also takes stuff to bed and hides the remains, things like shredded cheese under her pillow, apple cores behind the mattress. I'm going absolutely nuts with her behavior, and thought I was totally alone. So THANK YOU for posting... I don't have an advice, but maybe we can figure out something together. One thing I'm considering, because I can't keep waking up to such messes (eggs get thrown outside, detergent poured everywhere) is putting an alarm on her door, so if she gets out of her room at night it wakes me. She still does pull ups at night (while her twin brother does not), so her getting up for the bathroom isn't going to cause me false alarms. My sitter really agrees with the idea, because as he said, I'm already not sleeping because of her antics, and when she gets into stuff it creates more work for me to clean. At least this way she is safe and my work is reduced, even if I'm up all night. Good luck!!!

By Pamt on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 02:42 pm:

We used to have a woman on MommyTimes years ago and then she was on MomtoMom and she had a DD with these kinds of issues. Her DD ended up being diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and was in counseling and maybe even taking some medication and it got things under control. I would definitely pursue these behaviors more with a neurologist or psychiatrist.

By Cat on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 08:32 pm:

If you do a google search for "ADHD carb cravings" you'll get some interesting results. But like Pam said, we had a member a while back (I haven't seen her in a while) with a dd who would hoard the weirdest things and was eventually dx'ed OCD. OCD is one of those disorders that goes hand in hand with ADHD. It'll be interesting to see what the ped neurologist says. And yes, we've had the same problems with Robin. He loves bread, cheese, chips, anything with sugar, etc. If I don't keep string cheese in the house, he'll eat all my sliced American! I hate going in his room and finding empty bags and wrappers from various things. I remember when he was about 7 finding tootsie roll wrappers stashed in a corner of his room! Hugs to everyone having problems with this.