Hi, I'm new here, and am looking for some advice. My ten year old son was diagnosed with ADHD at 7 years old. He is on 10mg Adderol daily. A little background info....He was diagnosed with ADHD at 7years old, I was VERY resistant to medication, but eventually gave in when nothing else seemed to work for us. He is an honor roll student, and extremely athletic. His sport of choice is ice hockey, and is an A level goaltender. He also loves running, and baseball. I am so proud of him all the time. But our problem is , he is so full of nasty attitude at us. I have a 21 month old son (whom he adores, and has all the patience in the world with, the baby is probably the only one of us he is even nice to). Everyone I meet who knows my son compliments me on how well behaved and polite he is, and how he gives 100% evvort to everything he is doing. but then when he is home with us he is just plain nasty, everything is an argument, or him freaking out about nothing. We can't even ask him if he wants milk or water with dinner without getting a nasty tone of voice, or comment from him. Mornings are particularly HORRIBLE. He wants to blame it on his pill hasn't had time to work yet, I tell him that's not an excuse to be a jerk to everyone. He has an hour and a half before he gets on the bus, and 99% of the time he has no time to even eat, because getting dressed even has been an hour long argument, and brushing his teeth has been another argument, same with shoes, jacket, backpack. I prepare everything the night before with him, clothes, backpack packed, lunch packed etc... To minimize problems, but seemingly new problems arise while he sleeps (clothes are no longer what he wants to wear, no longer wants a ham sandwich, make me a turkey etc...)

I want to ground him for his behavior in the mornings, but usually when he gets home from school, his attitude has either changed, and for the most part he is okay. Or it has stayed the same and he is now grounded. (Grounded in my house is only for a short period of time an hour or so, he sits on his bed facing the wall...No TV, video game, books, NOTHING. It equals out to torture for him).

So do I ground him after school for his behavior in the mornings, when he barely even remembers the attitude he threw around all morning. Or do I wait until he screws up again after school, and then ground him....?

I appreciate any advice and thanks for reading my mini novel.