The real cost of having a child with ADHD doesn’t have anything to do with the doctor’s appointments or trying various ADHD medications and alternatives. It has to do with the damage to your home and possessions from your child’s inability to sustain attention. I’m not implying that the ADHD child is naughty, just careless.

Our son is only 14, but the costs are beginning to rise. He will take driver’s training this month, and then I imagine he can begin destroying automobiles. Actually, he is an excellent driver. He drives the tractor, the backhoe, and the dirt bikes all over the farm and between fields. However, I’m realistic about his tendency to become immediately preoccupied and micro focused.

He accidentally broke the glass out of our front door. Since it was one of the two, etched, frosted, antique glass windows in the original door to our 100 plus year old home, we had to replace the door. Of course, it wasn’t a standard size door.

He accidentally hit the glass front of our oven with a stool. Apparently, the glass is designed to shatter into a million, tiny pieces to avoid injury and cuts. Therefore, the entire front had to be ordered from the manufacturer and replaced.

Yesterday, he decided to check the wood stove to see if it needed wood. No one asked him to check it, and no one even knew that he checked it. That is until Super Dad got home from work and found the door open, all the water boiled out, the metal beginning to warp, and the pump making horrific noises.

Keep in mind that he filled the wood stove while Super Dad and I were out of state and he knows how to do it. The wood stove is our only heat source and supplies all of our hot water. We paid an extra 5 thousand for the fuel oil backup insert. Therefore, if it is destroyed, it will take several thousand dollars to repair or replace it.

A couple of months ago, he asked if he could take his one-year-old niece outside to swing. When her mother and father showed up, she was outside alone, crying. Lane was nowhere to be found, and showed up an hour later.

He really is a great kid and he’s very smart. I mentioned to you in previous blogs that he attends college and currently has 20 credits, six that he received through a Clep exam for freshman composition. He always feels horrible about doing these “bad” things. I imagine it must be frustrating to be so smart and do such dumb things at times. I know that it is frustrating as a parent to have unexpected expenses due to silly mistakes.

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