Day 2 at preschool & they suspect ADHD. What now? And what can help?

[LaTristesse]

DS is 2.10 and had his second day at preschool today. I chose a Montessori setting for him as he struggles to concentrate, is pretty wild, prefers being silly or pushing people about to playing nicely. To my mind he needed to focus that Montessori can provide.
After workibg with him for the morning, the lady who runs it says he is interesting and challenging and she mentioned he displays some ADHD traits. This is all new to me - what do I do now? What will help? (Less TV, more fruit & veg?) - sorry if that's insultingly naive, I have a lot to get my head round after today...

Is she a doctor?

Afaik, early years practitioners are not qualified to make those kinds of judgements.

She has only met him twice in a new setting! Bless him, give him a chance to settle.

If you are worried, make an appointment with your GP. But tbh many children under 3 dont really play or concentrate they often do silly things and want to charge about.

Good luck

blimey second day and someone already thinks he needs a label, he is only just getting the hang of the nursery lark and being away from you as the other poster said she is nowhere near qualified to make such statements i reckon all the other kids there are quiet and easy going kids who have prob been there for ages and she has lost the ability to be able to guide a new child in the setting

As has already been said
2 days
Is she qualified to dx?
Many children start a new setting and are not their true selves. Some quieten down, some liven up. Way too early for her even to be thinking that, let alone vocalise her opinion.

Agree with the above comments. He's young, in a new environment, give him a chance to settle in. Were you concerned prior to her comments about his attention and behaviour in relation to his peers?

If not, dismiss it. See how he goes.

Thanks for the replies. Yes I've been concerned about some of his behaviour for a while, but haven't known whether it was normal (people kept telling me he's still small and it is normal, but I never saw other children doing those things).
I felt a bit validated by hearing someone experienced say similar.
Is that the next step, to see a GP?
What causes it, is it known?

With respect Hothead, working in this environment, and experience of having 2 children with SNs, to be telling a parent after 2 days is totally unprofessional.
I have experience of children that come in positively wild who alter significantly by the first half term - when they have settled and become more used to the environment and parental separation.
I have also had children that you know from day 1 have difficulties.
A much better way of handling the situation would have been to let the OP know that they are aware of her concerns and would log situations and feedback at half term. That way you can let the parent know triggers to behaviour, strategies used etc and it makes much more formative reading to take to a GP

Thanks both, they way I see it the earlier the better.
Will things like stopping tv help or is that pointless. I know nothing about it...

I must admit, it's surprising. DD1 goes to special school now, but the preschool waited 8 weeks to tell me their concerns (the 6 weeks before the summer holidays, when she started, and two weeks after the summer holidays). They deliberately waited to see if she would mature over the summer holidays, but she didn't.

I'd ask them to contact the local inclusion co-ordinator as a first step, if they feel they need support. Meanwhile, any evidence they compile for him/her can be copied to you, so that you can take that to the GP and ask for referral to the Paediatrician.

For example, when DD1 left school, I was given her file and it had an 'activity map' which was completed after 4 weeks at preschool. It was simply a diagram of the floor layout of the preschool, with lines charting DD's movements over the course of about 30 minutes, with a time by each line. The chart was like a firework display Several of the lines related to the same one minute interval, because she was literally bombing around the setting, picking up a paint brush and dropping it again, etc.

I remember they had painting set up ready for the morning session, and as she walked past the easel, she picked up a paintbrush, dabbed it into the paint, painted a stripe on the paper and dropped the brush as she made her way to the carpet!

Although I knew from probably the age of around 3 I thought my DS had ADHD he wasn't diagnosed until he was 5 and even then they were hesitant in labelling him so they tend not to diagnose ADHD at such a young age!