"My son used to be a ticking time bomb -- he'd find a screwdriver and poke a hole in the screen door, then stuff a toy down the toilet in a matter of minutes," says Theresa Newfield of Raynham, MA, whose son Dayson was diagnosed with ODD when he was 3. Now on the stimulant Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) by day and an antidepressant before bed.
Found the above on an article discussing medicating preschoolers and toddlers.
J regularly engages in behavior like that listed above. I chalk it up to two things:
1) My unwillingness to constantly supervise him
2) The fact that he's two
It'd take a whole lot more than that for me to put my child on a daily regimen of medication with serious neurological and metabolic side effects.
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No kidding!
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