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Tales of ADHD Destruction

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• Posted by JennyM - Aug 13 2008 @ 3:31 PM
  Wall Destruction
  All of your comments make me feel a bit better about our latest experience. In the middle of the night, my ADHD 8 year old got all our sharp knives out from the knife drawer and proceeded to stab our walls more than 100 times. I came downstairs in the middle of this escapade (too late) and could not believe the extent of the damage. I asked him what would prompt him to do such a thing, and he gave me the standard ADHD answer "I don't know". We are now locking his door at night so we can sleep peacefully! Likely more than $300 for a painter to fix, plus $100 in damaged knives....
• Posted by Kristi - Jul 19 2008 @ 11:55 AM
  The scratch
  Two days after buying a brand new flat screen monitor for our computer, my 13 year-old son took a paper clip and put a 3 inch scratch across the very middle of the screen. Of course, when we asked him why he did it his answer was, "I don't know!"
• Posted by Amy2838 - Jul 17 2008 @ 4:58 PM
  Crash!
  After repeatedly telling my 4 year old son "no" he decided to let me know of his displeasure by smacking the sliding glass door with his fishing rod. The glass shattered into a million pieces. It continued to crackle and shatter for about an hour after that. The deafening crash and the earie crackling afterwards terrified him so completely that he refused to go near it for a week! It scared him so badly I couldn't fuss at him, but I did let him know that I was very disappointed in his behavior. The doors cost me over $2000 to replace, but two years later and he has yet to lash out when I say "no!" Lesson learned.
• Posted by staremwi@yahoo.com - Jul 16 2008 @ 1:08 PM
  want a ride anyone...?
  Both of my sons as ADHD. My oldest is also ODD and OCD. needless to say, when they were both spouting off at each other, I warned them that they were not going to be taken to the State Fair unless they calmed down and quit being awful to each other. Well, they didn't stop, so I kept true to my promise...they didn't go to the fair.

  The following morning I went into the garage to get into my new 2008 Nissan Pathfinder...and found several scratches on it. they were very deep and awful!! On second look with friends that were familiar with paint matters, it turns out that over 3/4 of my new truck needed repainting at a cost of over $3000. My son denied it of course, but then I bluffed and told him I knew that he'd done it - i wanted to know what he used, he finally confessed to using a large framing nail that he'd found. That was a huge slap in my face!

• Posted by bburgmom - Jul 16 2008 @ 10:19 AM
  Just so happens...
  Funny I saw this blog today. My 8 year old likes to pull out the plastic inserts from my computer sockets when I am working on my laptop. I've told him repeatedly not to, but the temptation is just too great.

  Yesterday my network card in my laptop died. I went to put an external adapter in the socket and it wouldn't go in all the way. I kept pushing until I thought to look in the socket with a flashlight. There was the plastic insert for the smaller socket above! Not only was it wedged in there, but it ruined the pins. When I finally got out the insert and brought my laptop in to be repaired, I was told the socket is integrated into the motherboard and I would have to replace the whole thing!! Definitely not worth it on a 3 year old laptop. I guess I will be computer shopping soon for a new laptop that will connect to the network again...

  PS. I never did tell my husband how it actually happened - he would flip out!!

• Posted by Kay Marner - Jul 14 2008 @ 10:43 AM
  tales of destuction
  I have another story of my own to add: I used to let Natalie play with my laptop, if I was supervising directly--if she was sitting on my lap. No more! Before I could stop her, she pounded on the keyboard, and several keys popped off. I still write without the O or P keys! I don't have a price tag for this incident--I haven't tried to have the computer repaired.
  Kay

• Posted by ADDMom - Jul 7 2008 @ 1:49 PM
  tale of destruction
  My 5 1/2 y/o ADHD son dropped our $400. digital camera on the driveway and broke it. A few months later, he dropped our new $100. digital camera and broke it! Now, of course, he's not allowed to touch the camera we won at DH's holiday party! LOL!

  As for the kid with the midnight knife weilding...I'd get all the knives out of reach!

• Posted by RS - Jun 30 2008 @ 1:20 PM
  Lego Hockey
  I don't think I can top the granite counter, but this one will give you a chuckle. My 9 year old ADHDer was playing nicely in the living room with a neighborhood friend. I was upstairs, within earshot, working on the computer. I could hear the boys revving up and learned that they were playing hockey with Lego pieces. I asked them to slow it down a little and all seemed okay. The next thing I know, I hear a voice calling, "Mom, Mooom, MOOOOOOMMMM, I need you!" I ran downstairs to see my son next to the fish tank trying to catch the running water with his hands. He had smacked a Lego piece into our large tank and it caused a large crack in the glass. The water was flowing all over our carpet, and the fish was dangerously close to becoming rock bound. I grabbed a laundry basket to catch the water as I couldn't lift the tank. I was able to safely retrieve the fish, while not so patiently asking me son the rhetorical, "How many times have I told you to stop playing hockey in the living room". He still plays a little too roughly in there, but the fish tank has been relocated to my office where he is happily swimming away.

• Posted by Amy Alison - Jun 28 2008 @ 12:26 PM
  Lovely table pattern
  We bought a new dining room table several years ago, and had a 2 1/2 year old and a 4 year old at the time. I had gotten tired of my son (with ADHD,then 4) tugging at the tablecloth of the original table, and of having to constantly put clean tablecloths on. That table could not be bare wood in its condition, so we opted for a new one that could be used without a tablecloth. But considering how expensive the tables in furniture stores are, we decided to buy one at an unfinished wood store instead. It only cost $400 or so for the table and to have the store do the stain finish, etc, so thankfully it didn't cost a fortune or anything. I figured this would look nice and be very functional for a few years despite the inevitable dings from use with children in the house, and then when they were older we could simply sand down and re-finish the top surface... The VERY FIRST DAY we had it, my son took a can of green beans and banged it repeatedly on the surface of the table--he wasn't even mad or anything, just did it because he felt like it, I guess--and there are now many circular indentations all over the tabletop. So it's not completely ruined, by any means, but ever since and for the next few years, it will look this way. It looked great for the first HOUR or so...ARGH!!!!!

• Posted by Kay Marner - Jun 27 2008 @ 10:56 AM
  re: in the groove...
  Whoa! Just reading about your experience made me sick to my stomach. You're in the lead! Can anyone top that?
  Kay

• Posted by 1mom2kids3adhd - Jun 27 2008 @ 12:16 AM
  In the groove...
  After spending week after week remodeling my kitchen myself, I finally had my new -- stupidly expensive -- quartz countertops installed. Wow, did they look gorgeous! On top of the satisfaction that I actually completed a project, I had the pride that it looked amazing and that $1300 countertop was like a sparkling jewel on top.

  The next morning I got up and went to the drawer where I keep everybody's meds. My wrist snagged on something at the edge of the counter. I scratched at it, thinking it was a chunk of food or something, but it wasn't a bump... it was a groove! I took a closer look and realized my 11-year-old ADHD midnight muncher had made his first appearance. He had grabbed a table knife from the drawer and sawed the edge of the counter until the groove appeared! What's worse, he did that every night for many, many nights. Every time I look at the row of grooves he's created I just get sick to my stomach. It made me so ill that I bought some Bondo (like you use on cars) then sanded and faux painted it it a desperate attempt to match the pattern. It doesn't match at all, and now he picks at the Bondo and has moved to the other side of the counter with his knife.

  How's that?