Many parents and friends equate children’s hyperactivity with ADHD, artificially broadening the scope of ADHD in children and making them suffer innocently.
What are the characteristics of ADHD in children?
The main symptoms of ADHD in children are: excessive activity, difficulty concentrating, emotional instability, and in some cases, some perceptual impairment.
(1) Excessive activity: Most of them start in early childhood and become obvious after entering elementary school. In class, small movements, tearing books, books painted out of shape, all the things that can touch the Ministry to touch, like to tease, often fight with classmates.
(2) Attention will not be set: not focused on learning, short time to focus on listening in class, reactions to stimuli from all sides.
(3) mood instability, agitation and stubbornness, shouting for no reason, impatience, and hasty work.
(4) learning difficulties: children with normal intelligence, but due to hyperactivity brings learning difficulties, some children have cognitive activity disorder and inductive analysis disorder. The course of the disease, generally before the age of 7 years, the course of the disease continues for more than 6 months.
The etiology of ADHD has genetic aspects as well as neuropsychological, biochemical, and psychosocial aspects, such as being associated with delayed maturation of the central nervous system, with mild brain damage, and with defects in the metabolism of central neurotransmitters, in a small percentage of the total population.
In other words, although some children are indeed very active and resemble the symptoms of ADHD, they are not ADHD.
What are the causes of hyperactivity in children?
I. Age characteristics
If a child is young and active, it is in their nature to sit there like an old woman and be calm and still, it is a matter of concern. Children just started elementary school, has not yet developed the habit of quiet study, is a perfectly normal thing.
Two, temperament characteristics
People have different types of temperament, polycystic children are lively and active, emotionally unstable, attention and interest easily shifted, often do not concentrate enough. The younger the child, the more obvious the characteristics of the temperament type.
Third, intellectual characteristics
Some children have a significantly higher intelligence than the average child, and the content of instruction can be “overwhelming” for them. The child will not be able to organize their extra energy, so they often do not pay attention to the lecture, active and active, and will form a habit over time.
Fourth, learning disabilities
Some children may have more knowledge deficiencies, lose interest and confidence in learning, and thus have difficulty concentrating in the face of textbooks and homework, always wanting to do something else.
Fifth, is the parenting habits
Some children have developed the habit of not being able to be quiet because of improper upbringing from childhood. Once the habit is formed, it is very difficult to change, learning is often manifested as hyperactivity.
Sixth, the label effect
People’s mental behavior tends to develop in the direction of their own expectations. To put it in layman’s terms, what kind of person do you think you are, you tend to become that kind of person. Children are even more so, the evaluation of adults often form the child’s self-perception, often listen to adults think they are what kind of person, the direction of adult evaluation to develop, to “confirm” the evaluation of adults to him. Psychologically, this phenomenon is called the “label effect. In other words, some children’s ADHD-like behavior is “nurtured” by adults’ inadvertent and frequent evaluations.
How do you distinguish between hyperactivity and ADHD?
It is not difficult to distinguish between hyperactivity and ADHD in children.
A. Purposeful or not
The activities of hyperactive children are purposeful and orderly; the activities of hyperactive children are purposeless and disorganized.
Second, the presence or absence of bizarre
Even if a hyperactive child is particularly naughty, his good movement is not bizarre and can be understood; ADHD children’s hyperactivity is so bizarre that it is difficult to understand.
Third, the most critical one is whether there is selectivity
Children’s hyperactivity is often selective in terms of content and occasion, for example, in learning activities, but watching TV or doing games and other activities of interest can be concentrated; ADHD children’s hyperactivity is not selective in terms of content and occasion, no matter what occasion or activity, can not quietly pay full attention, will show hyperactivity, inattention and other symptoms.
Why do some parents simply assume that their children have ADHD when they find them to be hyperactive?
In addition to being misled by advertisements, the key is the widespread mentality of high expectations in family education. Parents mostly say that their children have ADHD in academics, and few say that their children exhibit ADHD in other areas.
In fact, this is due to the blind high expectations of parents, once the child’s academic performance is not satisfactory to find the reason, looking for a “major discovery”: children do not pay attention to learning, hyperactivity, so remembered the ADHD, the child has been labeled a label, so how many children are wronged!
How not to let the “active” children wronged?
A, teach children to have a normal heart, the child’s good movement more understanding.
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Second, do not rashly label your child as negative.
Parents just need to put “children are active” on their lips, children will be able to become active children when studying. Therefore, parents should completely throw away the label “child is active” and focus on finding the child’s quiet learning performance and give timely encouragement and reinforcement.
The specific problem is treated specifically.
If the child is active is an age characteristic or temperament characteristics of the performance, can be ignored, appropriate guidance on the line; if the child is active is an intellectual excess, you can contact the teacher, the child to take special educational measures; if the child’s inattentiveness is due to learning disabilities, find ways to give the child remedial classes; if the child is difficult to quiet is due to habits, focus on the development of habits to start.
No child’s problem is formed in one morning, and don’t expect to solve it in one night. But as long as the mind spent to, the child can grow up healthy.