Behavior/Emotional Problems

[ecbcma25]

My son is 7-years-old and in the first grade. He has had trouble at school since he was 5 in preschool. While in preschool the only thing my son would draw or talk about was guns and shooting people. I basically had to talk to him everyday about this and tell him how it was not appropriate for school. I believe that stemmed from his father allowing him to play games he shouldn't. Well he eventually stopped drawing and talking about guns but the problems have changed into something different. Right now in first grade it is the worst. I get a note home everyday about his behavior and refusal to follow directions at school. His teacher says he is very unfocused and at times refuses to do work even when told exactly what to do. At home he sometimes gets very frustrated and angry when working on homework. At times we are in the middle of doing work and he just spaces out and stares at nothing or just out of the blue wants to talk about something that has absolutely no correlation with what we are doing. It has gotten to be such a problem that he is getting very aggressive towards his teacher at school, she gave him his paper back to correct 3 times and he yanked it violently out of her hand the third time. He also seems very emotional at times. One day we were at a church program and he just starts crying out of the blue and said he was thinking about a movie he watched that was sad. The most extreme thing happened the other night while we were watching "Swamp People" on television where they hunt alligators. When it was over he said to me "I feel like I want to stick my fingernails in a dead alligator and scratch it". I was so disturbed by this I cried myself to sleep. I am so concerned about this. Some people are leading me to believe he has a form of ADHD but I think there is more. I already spoke to his pediatrician and I have to fill out a form and so do his teachers but we haven't had a follow-up yet. I need some advice please! .

[Nancy410]

Hi Tyler...I still love you.  Maybe your just really smart...what do you like to do?  get into whatever you like doing and you will be successful at it.  My son has some problems too but now he is a financial analyst at a global company...he loves math!!!!  Good luck Tyler and dont give up...there are people out there that do love you.

[TylerBobbet]

Hello, my name is Tyler. I am 17. I am the grown up version of your son in some forms. I was the "troubled child" from kindergarten all the day to 11th grade, where I dropped out. Don't get me wrong, it is possible to pass.. just he will REALLY want to have to do it. Please keep in mind throughout this trip you are about to have with your son, he WILL be alright. School is very hard if your son has ADHD, you will become bored with school work and try to be the loud class clown, like me. This obviously will result in failing school. Once your son grows up, he will get his head on straight and learn to fight through it. I hope he doesn't grow up like me, and get my head straight through waiting in the ER. I'm realize this is very direct and rather scary thing to deal with, honestly, the best thing I can say to do, smile and love him. Please. My family took the psych ward for my sister, and just kicked me out. Not a fantastic option, I would love nothing more then to know someone still loves me through all this.