| It’s never easy parenting an impulsive child. No | | | | effects can be reduced by using natural alternative |
| matter how you love him or her, the endless frustration | | | | medications. |
| of coping with erratic and ill-considered actions is | | | | You are the one parenting an impulsive child. You are |
| always with you. Where another child might stop and | | | | the one close enough to know the costs and benefits |
| think before trying to climb a bookshelf…your child | | | | of treating impulsive behaviors with harsh medications |
| climbs now, thinks later. Dropping a full glass on the | | | | that on some levels may make your child worse. |
| floor just to see what happens? A child with poor | | | | Therefore you must be part of the decision making |
| impulse control will barely hesitate, and will not be | | | | team. Take time to learn about all the options. |
| prepared for accepting the consequences. | | | | Behavior therapy with a strong follow-through of |
| But treating impulsive behaviors is a challenge. Too | | | | in-home discipline and environment control is a great |
| many doctors and educators have been falling back | | | | place for almost any impulsive child to start. Instead |
| on the “easy” option of using strong prescription | | | | of simply flattening the impulsive response, they teach |
| medications. Prescription medications can’t teach | | | | a child to recognize it, stop, and think things through |
| a child good judgment, and they can interfere with his | | | | before acting. The skills developed will serve your |
| or her ability to learn to read and stunt growth and | | | | child forever. |
| development. | | | | Similarly, homeopathic medications like Hyoscyamus, |
| When you’re parenting an impulsive child the | | | | Arsen Iod, Verta Alb and Tuberculinum offered in low |
| question is, “Which is more important: controlling the | | | | solutions calm the brain and increase your child’s |
| behaviors now, or helping the child learn how to control | | | | ability to focus and make good decisions. Where |
| his behavior now and in the future?” | | | | prescription medications are the “elephant gun” |
| Don’t despair because there are options. Many | | | | approach to stopping impulsivity, homeopathic solutions |
| people parenting an impulsive child choose to rough it | | | | and formulas are a gentle, but more effective solution |
| out and avoid prescription medications entirely, relying | | | | for treating impulsive behaviors. |
| on good home teaching and supervision, behavior | | | | Parenting an impulsive child isn’t ever going to be |
| therapy, and natural alternative medication. Others | | | | simple or easy. Making the right choices will make a |
| choose to work with their doctors to design personal | | | | massive difference in your child’s life, now and in |
| programs based on a similar combination of | | | | the future, though. Take the time to look into the |
| non-prescription approaches with a prescription | | | | various alternatives open to you. By combining |
| element added at a much lower level. | | | | treatments with the knowledge and guidance of your |
| Then there are those who find that treating impulsive | | | | doctor you can come up with the best possible |
| behaviors in a particular child will still demand | | | | program for you and your child. |
| prescription medications at a higher level, but the side | | | | |