I need help... I know I am part of the problem but I don’t know how to fix it.
My son has inattentive ADHD and he is 8. He has always struggled at school and homework would take hours or screaming for a 10 minute piece of work. He will now sit down but will be wimpering and say he can’t do something before it’s even started and as soon as he has to think about an answer he says it’s too difficult... even though it’s exactly the same as all the others he has answered.
The moaning and flat out ’ can’t do it’ gets to me so quickly and I loose my patience. I make sure I encourage him and I’m as positive when he is doing it. But literally within minutes he shuts down I can’t get him to carry on and he just wimpers and says he can’t.
This has become like a vicious cycle during lockdown and I want to get better and find a better way to help him. I feel like I’m at my wits end with it and just can’t make it better.
His teaches struggle the same as me but imagine they just end up leaving him to it as he doesn’t often finish a piece of work in class. Does anyone have any strategies for this? I know I need to not let this get to me as much and stay more calm so anything that could help us both ?
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8 year old Son won’t try and I have no patience
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Jupin · 05/08/2020 16:38
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