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I am a foster parent and had a foster child diagnosed with ADHD. We went through a year and a half of chaos and finally got him leveled off. Did your Dr. try adjusting the doses AS WELL as WHEN the doses were taken?? Our child was seven when first diagnosed and what finally worked was the Ritalin two-three times a day (I could adjust it accordingly to what we were doing that day. School days he took all three doses. If we were just at home for the day it would depend on how hyper he acted) Because the noon dose would wear off before he could focus on evening classes and homework they changed his meds to a different medicine to take around 3pm to maintain him through his homework. We dealt with the hypertension with STRICT rules and STOOD by them no matter how frustrating it got. The meds were to keep him from flunking school. He was below grade level when he came to live with us and by the time he left he was the third in his class! The meds can work if you can find the right formula for your child. He left our home and is now in another home and they took him off of the meds and his back to low grades and very mischeivous behaviors anywhere from theft, sexual acts, etc. It is sad when the meds DID work for him. My brother was ADD and teens are tough, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. My mom gently nudged my brother to get involved in sports, church, volunteer work, etc. and he focussed that extra energy elsewhere. He is now a highly trained security guard for Loomis Armored cars. (His volunteer work consisted of helping at the police station and being a chaplains assistant at the local prison.)Volunteer work can lead into "on the job training" which is what ADD and ADHD do best with and can eventually give them enough experience to get a job as an adult. Make your child believe he is making the choices, but nudge him in the right direction. NO matter how many times you hear, "I can't" or "It's boring".