There are people who say that being a parent is not a difficult thing to do. I would just like to see their kids. It is hard work. And I am the husband. I can only imagine how difficult it is to be a mother. I know this sounds sexist, but the fact is that it is more time and nerve-consuming to be a mom than a dad. Even though I have been trying to make sure this is not true in our little family consisting of my wife Claudia and our only son Clive.
It is hard work and you have to make sure your child grows up to be a human being. That is all. Your child needs to be nice to other people, as that is most you can do. Everything else is not up to you. You especially come to realize this when God, Nature, call it whatever you like it, call it Chance; when it throws you a curve ball.
In our case, the curve ball was ADHD. Now, my wife and I are both educated people and we have already known a thing or two about this condition. This also helped us recognize it in Clive as soon as he started showing symptoms. He was about 9 and a half when we first started noticing his attention wondering when we wanted to talk to him. He also started getting bad grades in school and he became somewhat of a menace. We didn’t want to panic, but we still called our family friend who happens to be a psychiatrist.
He told us to bring Clive over. We did, he did all kinds of tests and queries to make sure it is really ADHD. We begged him to be sure as we have read all the stuff about ADHD and the fuss that is raised about this condition. It was definite. Clive had ADHD and he would have to take medications. Our friend told us that the best thing would be Ritalin as it has shown great results in children with ADHD. It has also showed great results in our case. Before we knew it, Clive was his old again, talking to us and listening to us. His grades improved and in the last year or so, he stopped taking Ritalin altogether. It was that efficient.
