A rough start to the day!

Harry will have long periods where he is the normal, sweet, helpful, child that he is. Then every so often out of the blue with no warning he is completely an ADHD case.....

Today started out with yelling, nothing could be said in a normal voice, every thing was screamed even though the person he was speaking too was right next to him.

Very demanding, wants things then and there. Like breakfast, he appeared to be frustrated that I was doing something and not getting his breakfast straight away.

It was all about him this morning, if he wanted something he demanded it, if he was talking then he demanded to be listened too, if he was sitting at the table then Thomas could not sit there too.

He was all up in Thomas face today, with sounds and silly faces, just needed that attention.

Now he is running around the house, its like he has so much energy he has to burn off.
Eating breakfast he needed to stand next to his chair and shake around.
While not talking or having anything to say, he would continue to be vocal with silly sounds.

He wanted to be hit by his brother, he said he loved it and wanted him to keep doing it.
There was a cushion on the ground which he ran circles around for a few mins then ran out of the room, raring ready to go, like a race car!

He is now upstairs throwing toys around the playroom making more verbal noises.

This has been our morning!

I have just turned the tv on and ahhhhh, Silence! First time this morning. TV really is a grounding self soothing thing for Harry.

5mins while typing this and he is still sitting quietly on the couch watching tv, it really is this mama's saving grace this morning!

Because of the ups and downs where for a week he is fine and then a few days he is off the wall, it really is saying to me that he has triggers to his ADHD. What are these triggers? food, environmental, sleep? Maybe once we find these triggers we can better handle and predict his ADHD moments.

He hasn't been sleeping well, having late nights and not winding down at night, could this be a sign that he is about to have an ADHD episode? or could this be a cause? not enough sleep.

Yesterday he said he drank a lot of milk at school. Could he be lactose intolerant? Another trigger maybe? was there a color or flavor in a food yesterday? Something really did trigger him off yesterday....but what? Maybe when we find out this we can really help him.