The Attention Demander

Effects: How does my child’s behavior affect other people at home and in school?

• Parents and teachers are forced to give additional time to this child.
  
  
• Parents often lose track of what they are trying to say.
  
  
• At school, concentration of teacher and class is often broken.
  
  
• Parents and teachers are antagonized.
  
  
• Other children may react by excluding the attention demander from peer groups.
  
  
• Other children may begin putting the attention demander down or avoiding him or her at every opportunity.