I didn’t find out how much ADHD was in my family until we started seeing more explosive meltdowns from my now 6 yo (he was 2.5 when he started getting near daily incident reports at preschool due to his lack of impulse control surrounding the train- we ended up moving to the sister school partially bc his first preschool didn’t take babi…
I didn’t find out how much ADHD was in my family until we started seeing more explosive meltdowns from my now 6 yo (he was 2.5 when he started getting near daily incident reports at preschool due to his lack of impulse control surrounding the train- we ended up moving to the sister school partially bc his first preschool didn’t take babies and I was trying to go back to work but partially bc he couldn’t handle working on train tracks with anyone! At the new school his teachers were the age of his grandmas and one of those teachers is teaching my 4 yo now 4 years later! They were the most emotionally regulated teachers I’ve ever seen, I don’t know how they maintained the level of calm they had but they brought all the calm to his chaos.
But I found out my husband and I had ADHD when my oldest kid was 4ish so early 2022. The amount of effort I spend thinking about someone resonates, when I volunteered as guardian ad litem in law school I had the hardest time contacting the foster families about my kids but I had spent so much effort thinking about contacting them I was exhausted! My husband’s list of home projects is never ending and despite knowing he has ADHD I still get hurt when his priorities don’t line up with mine! We are thinking of getting full eval for our kid now, he does well with the structure of school but I want to be prepared and help him cope better than we did as kids. My undiagnosed anxiety and ADHD were a perfectionism combo that made my life very hard as a little kid.
I didn’t find out how much ADHD was in my family until we started seeing more explosive meltdowns from my now 6 yo (he was 2.5 when he started getting near daily incident reports at preschool due to his lack of impulse control surrounding the train- we ended up moving to the sister school partially bc his first preschool didn’t take babies and I was trying to go back to work but partially bc he couldn’t handle working on train tracks with anyone! At the new school his teachers were the age of his grandmas and one of those teachers is teaching my 4 yo now 4 years later! They were the most emotionally regulated teachers I’ve ever seen, I don’t know how they maintained the level of calm they had but they brought all the calm to his chaos.
But I found out my husband and I had ADHD when my oldest kid was 4ish so early 2022. The amount of effort I spend thinking about someone resonates, when I volunteered as guardian ad litem in law school I had the hardest time contacting the foster families about my kids but I had spent so much effort thinking about contacting them I was exhausted! My husband’s list of home projects is never ending and despite knowing he has ADHD I still get hurt when his priorities don’t line up with mine! We are thinking of getting full eval for our kid now, he does well with the structure of school but I want to be prepared and help him cope better than we did as kids. My undiagnosed anxiety and ADHD were a perfectionism combo that made my life very hard as a little kid.