Has your child been labeled as having ODD - Oppositional Defiant Disorder?  Do you have to learn to live with Defiant Children?

So what exactly does that mean?

Let's start with some actual definitions of the words used in that term:
(definitions have been taken from the Encarta World English Dictionary®)

• oppositional: a disapproving attitude toward something and a wish to prevent it or action taken to show disapproval of and prevent something.
• defiant: 1) disobedient: deliberately and openly disobedient;
• defiant: 2) challenging aggressively: tending to confront and challenge.
• disorder: illness: a medical condition involving a disturbance to the usual functioning of the mind or body.

Some of the characteristics associated with this term are: loses temper, argues with adults, refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules, deliberately annoys people, blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior, touchy or easily annoyed by others, angry and resentful or spiteful and vindictive.

What child hasn't exhibited one or more of the above symptoms at one time in their life or another? What adult hasn't also exhibited one or more of the above defiant children behavior characteristics? Have you? I know I have.

What is the ideal scene for your child and his role in the functioning of your family and household?

How do you get your child to want to change his behavior to match this ideal scene and give him the tools to do so. 

And how do you give him the tools he needs to survive in the outside world and to attain his goals?

And WHAT does this have to do with why he's acting the way he does...

Is Oppositional Defiant Disorder normal?

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