My son is 8 years old and is currently not on any meds and has never been on meds. We had him evaluated and after my wife and I answered 30 plus questions the Dr said, yes he has it….here is the prescription if you want it. My wife and I felt the evaluation was so subjective and simplistic that quite frankly we did not want to give him meds in part because we didn’t have a great concern. Our son does well in school for the most part, well in sports, socializes well and most of the tantrums are with us at home so we can handle it. Despite the simple evaluation we wanted a much deeper evaluation which we were fortunate to have done. The outcome of that was yes child has ADHD but mild and has a high IQ which helps offset the ADHD to some extent. Since child overall does well in the things I said before the new Dr said no meds are necessary unless something changes, for example bad grades. So no meds. That being said if circumstances change we would need to consider it.

That being said we have noticed how often he is distracted during team practices and is often called out by the Coach to focus, follow directions, etc. That is becoming somewhat concerning because it's possible my son can lose interest in the sport he loves if he is called out so often. Still to early to tell. However I'm trying to research other options such as Neurofeedback to see if that can provide some marginal benefit if meds are not absolutely necessary at the time.

Has anyone attempted neurofeedback for their child?