ADHD help please.
My 5 year old step daughter is having some issues that i’m not sure if this is what we are dealing with or not. When her dad and i got together these issues were present but some have gotten worse. Here is the rundown of her life before myself and my children. For the first 2 years of her life she was with just her mother. Her dad got full custody of her and it was always her and him and his parents. The mother wasn’t involved in her life after that. She has never been in social situations before until school and me bring my 3 kids into their lives. No one can say for certain if their was abuse to her while living with her mother.
She has “meltdowns” you cant speak talk or rationalize she has a blank look on her face as if it isn’t her. She zones out so bad. In the morning you have to tell her to chew, swallow her breakfast. She just started kindergarden and does not like to go.She can dress herself but will scream at the top of her lungs if she can’t get her buttons buttoned. She struggles to do her homework. She is now into hitting all the time. She resorts to it right away. She does things behind our backs to hurt others sometimes. there are usually 3 different little girls through out the day. when she is loving which does happen often it tends to be over the top and in your face. She is very rough. She does not talk to much. If you just want to talk about her day she has nothing to say and if she does it’s very simple answers example: fine, i dont know, or nothing said at all. about 2 months ago she got introuble for abusing the dog. she locked him in his cage and sprayed him with airfreshner. i have a 1 year old baby that we cant leave her alone with because she has a hard time keeping her hands to herself. their were some scarry moments with the baby that we dont want to see again. my 10 year old son takes alot of abuse from her. she likes to hit him the most. i just dont want him to grow up thinking it’s okay to abuse or be abused. any ideas or help maybe im getting someof this off of my chest. she is going to therapy but it hasn’t gotten any better. maybe how to deal or handle it would be helpful. i have stared to keep a journal on all of the children and reading back it’s an everyday thing that she hits. The otherday she kicked her dad and i where you shouldn’t be kicked. scratching me and him, hitting us, i guess im just frustrated.
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