At first when I began to search for ways to regulate moods in children with ADHD I thought that I would be finding medications or different dosages of medications. One of the websites I found actually explained various physical things you could do with your child.

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/3268.html

I enjoyed reading these and although they seemed to only be referring to using these techniques at home, I'm wondering if they could be implemented into the classroom as well?

Where they said that parents and adults need to model these for the children are exactly right. How is a child supposed to do these things if you aren't going to do them either? They might believe it really isn't important and not want to control it.

The child that I am familiar with we tried to some strategies with him, but it seemed as if sometimes they would work and other times they did not. One strategy others had even suggested to us was to let him use a stress ball. We wanted to do that, but if he did not have someone constantly watching him or sitting next to him, that stress ball would be torn to pieces. No matter how many directions we gave or told him not to do something, if we turned away or even if we didn't turn away he did it. He has this impulse that he can not control. This is frustrating and interesting to me. I think because at the same time I don't completely understand it.