How do you discipline a 5 year old who has ADHD or Aspergers?
September 5th, 2008My five year old is currently on a waiting list for an Aspergers evaluation or the doctor said it may also be ADHD because a lot of the symptoms overlap. I don’t know how to discipline him. Nothing seems to work very well. I don’t want to hold him to too high of expectations if he is physically unable to comply but of course I don’t want to let him get away with stuff that he should be able to do. It seems like he absolutely cannot sit still and quiet in church for an hour like other children his age or even younger. He is very disrespectful. He constantly says things are stupid and flops around and won’t look at me when I am trying to talk to him. He got kicked out of McDonalds for grabbing kids and saying mean things. I hate just up and leaving places when he misbehaves because it is not fair to his brother and sister to have to constantly leave places because he is naughty. We are using time-outs mostly and trying to accentuate the positives but he is always in time out!
Franklin










