ODD disorder

[Mrsnc11]

Does anyone have any experience of this with their children?
My daughter is displaying signs of this and all the usual reward/discipline strategies that have worked with my other children is having no affect on her at all, was reading up about it and came across ODD- she's displaying quite a lot of the symptoms and I'm wondering whether it might be that. Obviously will get advice about this but in the meantime just wondered if it was a common thing in children or not as I've never heard of it before now?

Hm, it's hard to say. ODD-ish behaviour can sometimes be a result of other underlying problems. My DS had a lot of ODD behaviour around the time he started school and he ended up with an ASC diagnosis. Once the underlying problems were identified and managed we stopped accidentally pushing his buttons so much and we were communicating in the way that worked for him, so his behaviour got a lot easier. So if your DD has this kind of behaviour and it's been going on for a while and not getting better then it's a good idea to get professional advice.

While we were waiting for evaluations I found The Explosive Child book helpful for my DS. It's useful when reward/punish doesn't work or even makes things worse. It doesn't depend on any diagnosis and a lot of parents of children with ODD, ASC, PDA, anxiety, and ADHD diagnoses have found it helpful.