My daughter is now 13, and at 7 yrs. old, she was a nitemare at times.Allot has changed though.I used to run from her cuz it was so painful, being left alone to raise her,working all the time.Now, she is doing great in school and at home.I also had to change for her.If you give it your true best and get emotional help, things will get better.Just have faith,and do what you must to ensure the best environment for your child.I don't believe in meds and we did OK I did not like what the meds did to my child.

The only advice I can give is from my own experience with my 11 year old adhd child. When he was around your childs age he developed this overwhelming anger against me. Telling me he hated me, he wished I was dead, I will kill you while you are sleeping, your a turd, butthead, eat my poo poo.. the things that came out of his mom just shocked and overwhelmed me. For him it was a phase and a way to get attention as it created negative for awhile he was sucking it all up. I realized I was feeding into it by getting angry or acknowleding it. So I tried the reverse phychology stuff on him and after about six months of it he stopped. When he said I hate you. I would say your allowed to feel that way but I love you and thats how I feel. When he would say I wish you were dead, I would say well if you died my heart would ache and I would miss you and cry because your the best kid in the whole world, and if I died who would be here to love you. They say that the ones you love you take things out on the most. I do it still with my fiance. I get angry at him sometimes for what I go through and the guy is at work, how did he make me mad or sad today lol.. Hoped my novel helped:)

Thank you so much people it helps to know that i can over come it. i will start trying these today

Jessemum - you sound like a star

the concerta is like meth and when coming down from it or needing a higher dose she will be very smart ass like,also when on concerta they dont want 2 be bothered so just think of it like this the good part of the med outways the bad and when she is having an attitude just blame tha meds,also have her in therapy and ask the therapist to help her with her attitude

My son acted the same way toward me until we put him on Zoloft for anxiety. It changed his whole attitude. We no longer fight and battle. Things have improved 100%

Boy, am I where you are right now. I know its hard. My son is just like your daughter but is 11. Just know you're not alone and hang in there with me! ~HUG~

My 8 year old acts like this without meds when she was on Concerta she was so unbearable we couldn't deal with her. She also would be up all night on that drug. Right now we don't have her on anything but she is failing miserably in school because she can't sit long enough to learn anything.

I know what you are going through. I have been where you are with my own daughter. Call the doctor and talk to him or her about a possible medication change or additional medication. From what you have written, it sounds like your daughter feels miserable too. You may want to consider counselling for her too.

I have the same problem, my son is 13 years old. He's taking Ritalin, he does whatever he wants with me, my mom and my stepfather but the funny thing is he's great with my sister, she's the only one that he respect, she says we treat him like a baby, that's why this happen. That's difficult for us to change, but i'm going to try.