There are many websites and forums for mothers to share their experiences and/or to help other mothers who may be having a problem, in which they have experienced previously. I decided that I would create a blog to share my own experiences, current issues and more for/with other mothers.
My daughter's name is Stephanie. She is 6 years old, her father Kyle is Australian and I am English, Irish, German, Maori, Scottish and Welsh be decent. At the age of 14 years, Kyle was diagnosed with ADHD. When Stephanie was born, we feared that she too may have some sort of ADHD. The paediatrician said "if she is more active than the other children, then she most probably does have it". But by conducted medical research and studies, it is mostly males who carry that disorder.
I previously miscarried with my son in 2003, so Stephanie is an only child. At school, she seems to be able to concentrate enough to learn. At home, it seems like she has had some sort of super sugary chocolate and zips passed me like a Formula 1 McLaren (lol). She is way too active for her age and has trouble going to bed early. We changed her diet, cutting out a lot but it didn't change much.
I haven't taken her to be tested, but I would like to. I'm not big on medicating her, so it would only be for knowledge. Stephanie is having a different upbringing to what I had, she is actually having a childhood. My father was quite strict and he didn't spend time with children, so I basically became an adult straight away. At Stephanie's age, I was cleaning the house, cooking dinner and babysitting myself. Because of how I was raised, my parents had a lot of trust and knew that I was responsible enough to do it. I wasn't home alone for long, maybe an hour or 2 in the morning and/or afternoon. My dad thinks it is possible that I may have had some sort of ADD (not as strong as ADD), but I was never given the chance to find out - anything that was not normal, was smacked out of me.
My dad doesn't like it when I yell at Stephanie, but I have said to everyone "she is not being brought up like I was. I would rather yell at her than smack her". A lot of older parents don't understand: ' what use to work back then, doesn't necessarily work now'. Just in the past few years, I have noticed quite a lot of differences with certain things - 'what was once alright for me as a child, is now being classed as dangerous or unsafe for children'.
I am going to end my rambling there and begin on my next post, which should hopefully be ready in the next day or 2. I will be posting about Day Care: I will be posting Stephanie's starting age, why we enrolled her when she was that age, the age we enrolled her in primary school and why. All of this, will also,include information which was passed on by other mothers of the day care - some qualified teachers sent their children to the same day care and they too had their own story that I would like to share. Their story shows the difference between an average family and of a family where one parent is a primary school teacher, that has children close to her teaching class's age. I haven't decided on the title of the post, but it will start with DayCare:
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