"Children are always moving around, is it ADHD?" Many parents who come to B&A Chinese Medicine Center have such questions.
But children are active≠ ADHD, and mothers can't make a mistake.
Usually those children with ADHD can not concentrate on doing a thing, their personality is more impulsive, their emotions are more unstable, they do things without considering the consequences, it is difficult to complete a thing independently.
And those normal and active children, in fact, is only too lively and naughty, although they will occasionally be more active, but for their own interests, they can still focus on completing. So where is the dividing line between ADHD and hyperactivity?
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Children's actions are often purposeful, planned and arranged. Children with ADHD do not have this characteristic, their actions are more impulsive, and messy, with beginnings and ends.
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Active children have the concept of occasion, while children with ADHD are only immersed in their own world, and have no concept of occasion. For example, the concept of not having a class in class, like to find other students to play.
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Active children have their own control of some behaviors, while children with ADHD have poor self-control.
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Active, naughty children can change after criticism, while children with ADHD criticize and commit crimes after a period of time, and they do not change after repeated teaching.
Some parents think that "ADHD" is a manifestation of hyperactivity, in fact, in children with ADHD, some do not show excessive activity.
For example, they look very quiet, but their academic performance always goes up, and they are "smart and stupid children" in the eyes of teachers.
Outstanding performance is inattention, easy to lose concentration, difficulty in learning, procrastination, carelessness, over time, easy to produce inferiority, negative psychology, boredom, truancy, lying and other behaviors.
For this reason, some children who are not hyperactive may also suffer from "ADHD", which should be paid attention to by parents.