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I'm concerned about ADHD and my 4 year old son?

My son is 4 years old, will be turning 5 in about 2 months. He has always been a handful, a very busy boy, and very headstrong. He is definitely a "spirited child" under that definition. But I wonder if there is more to it than that. I’m wondering lately if he may have ADHD or something else.

The thing is that he IS able to focus, sometimes for very long periods of time. He will play and build with lego for an hour; he will play with figurines in his room for a long time; he will sit and read chapter books with me for an hour; he can sit through a 2-hour movie; he loves crafts and will colour or paint and he does great with this at school. He is great with his baby sisters (twin 1.5 year olds) – he is gentle, plays with them, shares everything with them. But he vies for attention too.

Ok so that all sounds good but here’s where we’re having problems. He’s fidgety at the dinner table, will often just get up, even fall off his chair because he is being silly. We have moved his chair right beside mine and this is helping. He is often uncooperative and challenges authority. He doesn’t like to change activities…when it’s time to get dressed, leave the house, mealtime and he is busy playing…he protests, complains. He used to throw tantrums over this but now just complains, not all the time but often enough. And we have to ask many times to get him to do it, or guide him in doing it where he CAN do it himself. Is this laziness? Or something else?

He gets into bad moods for no apparent reason. Will say things like, "I hate going to the store." just for the sake of saying it, he doesn’t even mean it. He’ll keep saying it until someone responds…we try to ignore this but he is persistent!!

He misbehaves at school…got in trouble for leaving line-up, got in trouble for pulling girls’ hair, and now he’s been poking, pulling hair, making angry faces, and pulling up kid’s shirts in his class. This seems to stem from some social issues and him not knowing how to make friends as he is only in junior kindergarten (4 year olds) and this is his first time with a large group of peers. He chews his shirt sleeves and has bitten things that are inappropriate – example we were shopping on the weekend and he was in a silly/hyper mood and bit the stroller’s handle for no reason.

He is forgetful and leaves items at school on a regular basis – mitts, hat, snowpants, lunch sack. At the same time, he is very smart. He is a geography whiz, knows all the planets, knows country flags, huge interest in reading/books, remembers things from years ago, has interests that are often above his age level.

He can be the sweetest, calmest little boy sometimes and other times he is the opposite. It is so frustrating!! My husband and are trying very hard…we are loving, good people, and we do have rules at home, consequences, and there is discipline. We are now scratching our heads because we feel like we are doing everything we can do. Is it normal for it to be this hard? Is it his age? Could it be jealousy (from having twin toddler siblings)?


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