Discipline

[Tiffanyb]

When I put my child on punishment, she always find a way to get around it. For instance, if she is not allowed to watch TV, she will go downstairs and turn on the TV and turn the volume down low. Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, what recommendations do you have to combat this?

[Janice_H]

Hi Tiffanyb, yes my 12 y.o. son does this also. If I take the TV out of his room, he goes downstairs and watches it on low volume. If I take his cell phone away and hide it, he searches until he finds it. I do not know he has it until the next morning. What I have to do is remove the plugs from both TVs so they do not work. I take the battery off of his phone and hide that in a different place.

[Onthemove1971]

Dealing with a child that has ADHD is a journey... part of that is learning a new "style" of discipline. Due to the fact that this condition involves impulse control and the other hyperfocus. Both are a challenge to deal with especially while stressful life is happening. But for your example, I would tell her, I want to make it clear when I say no TV that means not TV anywhere in the house for X hours, days... Then stop her from watching TV and say, next time I say no TV, I will be taking all of the plug/controllers away until you listen. If it happens again, remove the plugs. Children with ADHD need short focused punishment. We also punish after something has happened. So we explain, next time... then...

We also know where and what our child is doing 24/7 and stop him when he is not doing the right thing.

I hope that you/she is in counseling an getting some good advice about how best to deal with these types of behaviors and also so that everything does not get blamed on you.

Good luck