Tks TMI Grandma.
I haven't read many books about ADHD/ADD because I'm only slowly getting convinced that he has a problem/not. But I have them on the bookshelf (all my books seem to need a period of incubation before I get to them, groan).
I liked 123 Magic because it seemed so, so possible, but it was an utter disaster for us. My son does not know how to scale down. He kept daring me to count to 3 and would happily live out the deprivations because he had so much going on in his head anyway. What works for discipline seems to be a brief explanation (in analogy form because that's the language he speaks), a lot of trust, and a lot of repeating. As a backdrop, be very positive (like Grinity is :)). There's quite a bit of this addressed in the Edison Trait book, as well as the Nurtured Heart Approach proposed by Howard Glasser. Seems to be working.
We're having it easier these days because of the hols, but I realize that school is the problem. There is just zero challenge for him. We're lucky in that he's accelerated in math, although insufficiently. It's his writing that he should step up his efforts, but I'm beginning to think that cherry picking "meaningful homework" in a very deadening environment just doesn't help with the inspiration. He's a completely different boy at home, especially during the hols.
