The High Holy Days are a challenge to parents with young kids. If your synagogue doesn t offer babysitting or children s services, trying to keep your kid sitting still during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is torture for everyone involved.
ADD is a controversial syndrome.
It can also be confused with learning disorders, vision or hearing impairment or emotional problems. True ADD, which must be diagnosed by health professionals, causes a mixture of problems at home, socially and in school. Researchers have been looking into genetics and early environmental factors. A recent study in the Journal of Psychiatry pointed to an increased risk of ADD in children of mothers who smoked while pregnant. Patience the best treatment Treatment for ADD includes behavioral approaches of setting limits, building predictable structure into schedules and negotiating with the child on acceptable outlets for hyperactivity.